Blogs from the Natural History Museum
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We’ve the Museum’s group of designers, developers, writers, data analysts and marketeers. Working in cross-discipline teams, we’re responsible for all things digital. You’ll find our work on the website, on apps, and in our galleries.
We here to share some of exciting projects we are developing and keep you up to date with our latest news and ideas.
As part of the museum’s Life in the Dark exhibition digital content offer, we decided to try something new for our exhibition landing page to help promote interest and engagement. We ended up using a new mix of front end technologies to build it, so here’s a (long) technical walk through of the various challenges and solutions we encountered.
Continue reading “Trying something new – building the Life in the Dark interactive splash | Digital Media at the NHM”On 27th & 28th June I attended my first Lead Developer conference at the Barbican Centre in London. I had watched all of the previous year’s presentations so I had a good idea of what to expect – but of course, it completely exceeded my expectations!
Continue reading “Thoughts from The Lead Developer London 2018 conference”
The Digital Media and Marketing department at the Natural History Museum has started a blog, and this is our first post! Our department is made up of four cross-discipline product teams, with each team consisting of product managers, designers, developers, content writers, data analysts and marketeers. Our blog posts will give an insight into our work and life at the Museum and we hope you’ll find them interesting and useful!
On the 22nd and 23rd March the Natural History Museum held its first ever Design Jam. Organised by the Digital Media and Marketing department, the event was called “Dino Jam” to provoke discussion and to demonstrate a break from routine work. It had two main objectives: 1) to think of new ideas for our Dino Directory website (which we’re in the process of redesigning, by the way – keep your eyes peeled) and 2) to bring together as many people from as many departments across the Museum as possible. It was a very enjoyable couple of days where we learned a lot and took away loads of ideas which we’re hoping to progress in due course. Continue reading “Jammin’ at the Museum: The “DinoJam””