Tagged with: BBC Weather
Posts (17)
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Feeling the weather: the future of the forecast?
Cyrus Saihan
Digital Partnerships
Cyrus Saihan explains how haptic technology is being used to help the audience actually feel weather conditions
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BBC Weather: Listening to your feedback
Michael Burnett
Executive Product Manager
Executive Product Manager Michael Burnett gives a further update on the latest changes to the Weather service.
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A change in the weather
Michael Burnett
Executive Product Manager
Michael Burnett explains some changes to the BBC Weather app and website.
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BBC Weather Watchers: Creating the new crowdsourced weather experience
Michael Burnett
Executive Product Manager
Every day we receive bundles of emails, messages and photos about the weather. We try our best to show off users’ photos on the regular website and TV and radio broadcasts, but it’s been great to create a space to make the most of all our users’ content and contributions.
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Weather: redirecting mobile users to responsive
Michael Burnett
Executive Product Manager
It's a still work-in-progress, but is the next step in our plans to move to a fully responsive web solution on mobile, tablet and desktop.
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BBC Weather launches responsive website
Michael Burnett
Executive Product Manager
One issue coming through loud and clear is that many users on more basic phones are missing the old vertical five-day overview. We're addressing this now and will be reintroducing the overview in the next few weeks.
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BBC Weather app hits 5m mark
Michael Burnett
Executive Product Manager
I am well aware there have been some very difficult weather conditions up and down the UK since early December. So it’s humbling to know that so many users have turned to the BBC app for their weather information.
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BBC Weather App: designing for device orientation
Mala Vadhia
Senior Designer
We currently support 438 different screen resolutions on over 1000 Android devices. The key challenge here was to produce a design that scales, rather than bespoke solutions for both iPhone and iPad.
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BBC Weather app on iPad and Kindle
James Metcalfe
Head of Product, BBC+
The biggest change is we’ve introduced the ability to rotate your tablet device to view the app in landscape. This is especially challenging for the multitude of Android Devices...
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BBC Weather app reaches one million downloads
James Metcalfe
Head of Product, BBC+
Recently I wrote about the launch of the BBC Weather apps for Android and iOS (LINK TO POST) and I’m delighted to announce the app has reached over one million downloads across both platforms within the first two weeks of launch. It’s great to see such a positive response to the app and to reac...
