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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
An innovation team in the Guardian US newsroom exploring storytelling and delivering news on small screens. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Web Notifications
Sarah Schmalbach
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Dec 28, 2016
News apps are dying, and notifications are killing them.
News alerts now give readers everything they need right on the lock screen, so why open apps anymore? Here are 8 ideas for making them worth
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Aug 3, 2017
What Are Users Thinking When They Dismiss Notifications?
Lessons learned from testing further actions and personalization in web notifications for the UK snap election.
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Alastair Coote
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Jul 12, 2017
Generating Images in JavaScript Without Using the Canvas API
And putting them into a web notification
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Apr 4, 2017
Live Updating Notifications: What We Learned From Reusing the Format for the Super Bowl
Users found alerts updated with scores and commentary useful — more so than a single alert at the end of the game.
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Mar 14, 2017
Live: Now From Your Lock Screen
Users watched live video in an expanded notification for an average of three minutes.
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Dec 30, 2016
Four key takeaways from our election night live notifications experiment
Start early, recruit clearly, get everyone in a room, and stress test
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Dec 28, 2016
Profiles in Notifications: Lessons Learned From the Jobs Report, Round 6
Sending snapshots and receiving responses
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Nov 23, 2016
Building the Guardian’s Live Elections Notifications
How we put real-time updating AP results data straight on the lock screen
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Oct 26, 2016
Crowdsourcing Through Notifications: Lessons Learned From the Jobs Report, Round 5
In which we see if users want to talk back.
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Madeline Welsh
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The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab
Sep 30, 2016
What We Learned Covering the Olympics Through Notifications
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