Creating Our Web Push Service

A technical look at the building process behind the Guardian Mobile Lab’s web notifications.

Web Notifications Introduction: News on Lock(screens)

How the Guardian US Mobile Innovation Lab has experimented with telling stories in web notifications.

Using Web Notifications for News

The Guardian Mobile Lab’s first self-built experiment with sequential and interactive notifications on Chrome.

Five proposed areas of focus for mobile innovation in news

When Sasha and I joined the mobile innovation lab a few months ago, we were beyond excited to have the broadest possible creative mandate in which to explore mobile news innovation for the next two years. Then, within a few short…

Building the Guardian’s Live Elections Notifications

How we put real-time updating AP results data straight on the lock screen

Structured, Queryable Logging With Postgres and Bunyan

We at the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab have been running a series of experiments using push notifications as a means of delivering news to readers in new and inventive ways. It’s been fascinating, but we’ve repeatedly run up against…

Web Notifications, Part 1: Interactive

Breaking down a dense topic with paths of information.

Web Notifications, Part 5: Live Polling

Bringing users into the conversation with real time questions and answers.

News at its most direct: What’s missing from the notifications experience?

News organizations know two things: that they can’t annoy you too much, but that they want your traffic. How do we make…

Reimagining the live blog as a mobile-first experience

Live blogging has not kept pace with advances in reporting technology, and on mobile, the experience feels pared down.