The Internet Research & Future Services (IRFS) team is a cross-platform, multi-discipline team led by George Wright. We invent the future of digital media and develop internet technologies through research, prototyping and open experimentation.
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We work across all digital platforms and all BBC services and combine emerging technologies with audience needs. We believe that the best way to think about ideas and to solve problems is to create tangible things to experiment with.
We are very open and collaborative and we work with others in the BBC and throughout the media and internet industry, both in the UK and internationally. We work with the Click W3C and other organisations to define new web and technology standards and we regularly write and speak about our work in public.
Our team has people with a wide range of skills and includes designers, producers and engineers. We like web standards, open APIs, user-centred design, large-scale data, understanding how people use media, real-time computing, machine learning, cross-device experiences, prototyping things and more!
Prototypes
Building a prototype allows us to explore and develop ideas or to explain a concept to a user. Even if the prototype is quite rudimentary it can elevate the debate to another level and by building something we will learn from the experience. Prototypes don't usually represent the entire system and decisions need to be made about what is left out. This defines the prototype's fidelity and requires different approaches and techniques for design, development and evaluation. So our prototypes can range from sketches to fully-functioning public-facing websites
Contact Us
You can contact us by emailing Click irfs@bbc.co.uk or we are on Twitter as Click @bbcirfs. You can follow our work on the Click BBC Research & Development blog.
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