Box UK: BBC Innovation Labs Blog

It’s nice to be on Welsh turf and as with many Welsh web related gatherings there are some familiar faces. The guys from Cube are here with their idea for following news stories, and are also blogging their experience and Peter Gill & Associates are here trying to bring ‘new music to the masses’.

Day two was spent focusing on the users, we worked on personas, their experience of using our service and how it effects and works with their day-to-day life.

Working with a mentor and another team (we had the help of Matt Cashmore who is organising the labs and CMS Video with their ‘Play Music’ project) this exercise gave us a real insight into what the user needs and stands to benefit from signing up to our service. However it also gave us a couple of things to think about and demonstrated that we still have a bit of work to do before Friday.

We also found out yesterday why the BBC warned us about our idea being pulled apart. I think two days of ‘constructive critisism’ started to take its toll on a couple of the teams (ourselves included!) but we’ve been assured that by Friday we’ll be glad that it happened and will see the benefits…

Day 3

Day three of the labs, the sun is shining in Llangammarch Wells and it’s commissioner day. This morning we split off into our teams to go to and do a bit of fine tuning before we get a half hour with the commissioners this afternoon. The attitude today is slightly more positive and I think that some of the teams are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel!

As for us, our idea is growing…

We’re also learning a little bit more about our mentors, Frank Boyd (who has been great) did a magic act involving a mind reading vampire bat called Plasma once upon a time, who I’m hoping will make an appearance later today as I’m sure mind reading skills could be quite useful for the rest of the week!

*** Claire