Working at The Guardian

Since February 2009, I've been working for Guardian News & Media as Information Architect on the guardian.co.uk website. I gave a brief outline of my role in a presentation at the first London IA mini conference, entitled "Introducing Information Architecture at The Guardian".

During the course of 2009 I was involved in several major product launches, including a redesign of the Guardian Jobs site, the launch of The Guardian's iPhone application, and a relaunch of environmentguardian.co.uk. I blogged about how the real-time web gave real-time feedback on The Guardian iPhone application, and the IA features of the redesigned Environment front.

Whilst at The Guardian I've been part of several hack day, or mini-hack days. The first was in November 2008 when I gave a lightning talk about 8 Search APIs for Hack Days, and at the second I gave a presentation on "Graceful Hacks" - UX, IA and interaction design tips for hack days.

I've also blogged several reviews of what happened on the hack days themselves - Day #1 at 2008 Guardian Hack Day, Day #2 at 2008 Guardian Hack Day, Day #1 at Guardian Hack Day #2, Day #2 at Guardian Hack Day #2.

Other blog posts I published related to The Guardian since 2009 include:

• How the global climate change editorial project appeared online
• Comments are free...to inform and to entertain, as well as infuriate
• Carbon, clippings and checking out Wave - more cool stuff on guardian.co.uk
• Windows 7 overtakes Linux usage on guardian.co.uk in just 4 days
• New interactive Flash photo gallery on guardian.co.uk
• The Guardian's 'river of tones'
• The Guardian's children's comics: Part 1 - 40 years of changing media and Part 2 - Roy of the Rovers
• Michael Jackson and search at The Guardian
• The Guardian Open Platform at Endeca's e-Business Forum
• How the Ian Tomlinson G20 video spread The Guardian brand across the media
• The Guardian's Open Platform launch
• Reactions to The Guardian's new mobile site

You can find a selection of articles I've written for The Guardian site. These cover the redesign of guardian.co.uk site search, and changes to sitewide global navigation, as well as producing a new version of The Guardian's 404 error page.

I've also written for the Guardian Media PDA blog about Internet reaction to that Thierry Henry World Cup blog, and covered the 2009 JEEcamp event in Birmingham for them.