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The week I walked to work
The week I walked to work
Like many when the pandemic hit, my daily routine changed…
Jessica Squires
Apr 6, 2022
My journey from architecture to UX design
My journey from architecture to UX design
Ever since I transitioned from being an architect to a UX designer I have been contacted by many people struggling with their careers and…
Tomas Beltran
Jan 14, 2022
Does anybody likes sports news?
Does anybody likes sports news?
A UX research study on the current Reach sports news audience
Sara Khan
Nov 24, 2020
Conferences, are they worth it?
Conferences, are they worth it?
I love the feeling when you are walking out of a conference feeling like you could conquer the world. You are full of new ideas and when…
Jessica Squires
Nov 24, 2020
How we overhauled VoiceOver accessibility in our iOS applications
How we overhauled VoiceOver accessibility in our iOS applications
How we utilised the UIAccessibility protocol to enhance our iOS applications for use with VoiceOver.
Stephen Brown
Oct 9, 2020
Fama volat — Gossip has wings, but why? Part 1
Fama volat — Gossip has wings, but why? Part 1
Why is gossip and celebrity news so popular?
Sara Khan
Jul 26, 2020
How we use Universal Links to provide a seamless login experience
How we use Universal Links to provide a seamless login experience
Universal Links enable your users to intelligently follow links to content inside your app or to your website.
Stephen Brown
Jun 26, 2020
Running user research during a lockdown
Running user research during a lockdown
Why user research is still important, and how it has had to adapt during the UK’s lockdown
Steve Bromley
Apr 17, 2020
Rem tene, verba sequentur — if you know your subject words will eventually follow. Or maybe not?
Rem tene, verba sequentur — if you know your subject words will eventually follow. Or maybe not?
What do we really know about Reach’s readers?
Sara Khan
Mar 17, 2020
Using Lottie and After Effects CC to create multi branded animations from a single project
Using Lottie and After Effects CC to create multi branded animations from a single project
One of the challenges an app designer will face is how to engage a user with particular features of an app. These features seem so obvious…
Richard Jordan
Mar 2, 2020
Framing Android screenshots
Framing Android screenshots
In our company we wanted to improve our release process by automating the way we take screenshots and upload them to the PlayStore.
Ricardo Belchior
Feb 27, 2020
How our Data Products team built an article deduplication tool based on NLP
How our Data Products team built an article deduplication tool based on NLP
Have you ever come across a published article and had a ‘deja vu’ feeling of having read the article or a very similar article already?…
Jose Del Rio
Feb 14, 2020
Why we started riding Release Trains for our Mobile Applications
Why we started riding Release Trains for our Mobile Applications
At Reach we provide mobile applications for over 40 of our news publications, ranging from national titles to more focused sports titles…
Stephen Brown
Jan 31, 2020
Loyalty schemes — winning customers in a digital era
Loyalty schemes — winning customers in a digital era
A brief look at what loyalty schemes can offer in terms of developing user loyalty, and the underlying motivations that need to be nurtured
Rita Patrício
Nov 26, 2019
Adjusting UIColor Luminosity in Swift
Adjusting UIColor Luminosity in Swift
As part of expanding the colour palettes for our publications, the design team have been experimenting with taking the primary or brand…
Stephen Brown
Nov 20, 2019
How we used Firebase Audiences to AB test the onboarding experience in our iOS apps
How we used Firebase Audiences to AB test the onboarding experience in our iOS apps
For a long time we have noticed that there is a subset of our users that do not use our apps to their full potential, the big question for…
Stephen Brown
Nov 8, 2019
Comparing two PostgreSQL databases with Python
Comparing two PostgreSQL databases with Python
After an infrastructure migration we had to figure out whether data was lost during that process. Here we describe our attempts doing…
Ricardo Belchior
Nov 7, 2019
Building Trust in User Research
Building Trust in User Research
Some techniques for helping build trust in a new user research team
Steve Bromley
Nov 5, 2019
Every little helps — thoughts about empathy and contextualisation in users research interviews
Every little helps — thoughts about empathy and contextualisation in users research interviews
Last week the user research team went to Birmingham to run a round of usability testing.
Sara Khan
Oct 8, 2019
Understanding Reach’s Users
Understanding Reach’s Users
When building websites, apps, or new features for the users of Reach’s products, it’s important to understand the people we’re building it…
Steve Bromley
Aug 5, 2019
A/B…C? Lessons learnt from experimentation
A/B…C? Lessons learnt from experimentation
Nuggets of knowledge from our ever-evolving rollercoaster of a journey in powering our product development with data
Amna Askari
Jul 1, 2019
The two types of research for the future of Reach
The two types of research for the future of Reach
In 1925, John Logie Baird arrived in the reception of the Daily Express’s offices, hoping to demonstrate his recently invented television…
Steve Bromley
Jun 5, 2019
Watch Apps - Do we need them?
Watch Apps - Do we need them?
Now before anyone jumps the gun and thinks that this post is simply about bashing the notion of a watch app and smart watches in general…
Richard Jordan
May 8, 2019
Hello Reach, Hello world…
Hello Reach, Hello world…
Joining Reach’s UX & Design team as a junior UX Design Architect
Rita Patrício
Apr 15, 2019
Creating a robust UX lab
Creating a robust UX lab
Building the technical setup required to run usability research at Reach
Steve Bromley
Mar 29, 2019
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