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Articles tagged Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab (19)

Christine SchmidtAugust 23, 2018

The Lenfest Institute is testing new products for local news, and it wants your help

“If we’re going to be a test kitchen, let’s cook some stuff!”

Christine SchmidtJuly 24, 2018

12 prototypes, eight weeks, and lots of tapping: What’s worked (and hasn’t) in the BBC’s quest for new storytelling formats

A highlight in an article that reveals context when it’s clicked. A video with a scrollable transcript that speeds up or reverses the video, too. A movie trailer–like intro, drawing readers into the setup of the story. Which ones worked?

Shan WangMarch 27, 2018

What The Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab has learned after two years of experimenting with better news delivery on phones

Two dozen experiments, one Brexit and one U.S. presidential election, and hundreds of thousands of readers later, the Mobile Innovation Lab has some thoughts about what newsroom innovation and experimentation requires on a practical level.

Mazin SidahmedFebruary 27, 2018

What The Guardian has learned trying to build a more intelligent story format — one that knows what you know

Like Circa before it, The Guardian aims to atomize a big breaking story into its individual parts — and then be smart about showing you the right ones at the right time.

Shan WangFebruary 15, 2018

The Guardian’s new podcast player for the web tries to make listening a little more interactive (but not interruptive)

The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab’s podcast player for the mobile web lets you listen to a show without using a podcast app, and get phone notifications that point you to links and graphics at relevant points in the story as the audio plays.

Christine SchmidtOctober 26, 2017

The Guardian Mobile Lab’s latest experiment targets public transit commuters with an offline news app

“The app is a really good first step for gathering information, using it in a respectful way, and seeing how people feel about that.”

Shan WangAugust 4, 2017

The Wall Street Journal tested live push notifications, with some help from the Guardian’s Mobile Lab

“Did we make the job reports live blog better, because we put more attention to it, and should we push to do more things like this in the newsroom in general?”

Madeline WelshJuly 11, 2017

How do we build a better recommendation experience for mobile news readers?

And why are offline reading apps still so stodgy?

Joseph LichtermanMay 19, 2017

This is the story behind that double push alert The New York Times sent about Comey’s Trump memo

So why’d the Times make your phone buzz twice Tuesday afternoon? The inspiration was threaded tweets.

Shan WangNovember 29, 2016

Quartz launches its Bot Studio with $240K from Knight, and plans for Slack and Echo

The Quartz Bot Studio (which the publication intends to maintain after the grant funding is used up) will develop new bots for messaging platforms like Slack and voice interfaces like Amazon Echo or Google Home.

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