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| BBC iPlayer (beta) at Mix'06 | |
Microsoft Silverlight and Vista were just being shipped. BBC's iPlayer was selected to be showcased at Mix '06 - An annual Microsoft conference which invites developers, designer, product developers to share and showcase possibilities with latest Microsoft technology. Working with Microsoft Services team in UK and Redmond, |
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 Overall IA and behaviour detailling |
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 The BBC iPlayer globe was a gadget accessed from the desktop. |
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 The UI consists of 4 keys nav blocks:Search, Browse, What's Hot, Your Stuff - which react to user interaction based on where the mouse hovers and grows in size. |
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 The Player is embedded with Your Stuff. |
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 On typing in the first letter the system dynamically brings up all relevant items starting with that alphabet.. |
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 Ashley Highfield's complete step by step demo at Mix '06 "But first of all, what I'm going to do is I'm going to search. Now, as I search here, as I start to type in, I'm going to look for a program, and I just caught the last two minutes of it on Sunday night, a program called "Bleak House." And as I start typing, it's going to bring up all the BBC programming available beginning with B, and as I type through the words, so now I've got "Black Adder" and "Blake 7" and "Blue Peter."" (Applause.) ." |
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 Other parts of Player |
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 You can quickly share programmes with friends on your MSN address book. |
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| Project links |
BBC News on Bill Gates on iMP demo |
| Personal involvement |
| Project lead working with a talented team of 3 designers, managing client relation with Microsoft. IA, UI concept development and functional specs, creative direction. Visual Design:Richard Sinclair Flash prototyping:Kwame Ferreria Storyboard development and branding: Byju Sukumaran |