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Back in July, 主播大秀 Sport of the Cricket and Rugby Union homepages, the latest step towards that will help meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the rise of mobile and tablet - now the most popular devices used to access 主播大秀 Sport online each week. Senior Product Manager James Manning talks about the latest feedback received on these beta pages, further changes made and an update on what happens next.

With so many different devices in use today, the new responsive 主播大秀 Sport website will help us to offer you a high quality of service whatever screen you are using, with the same content available on all screens. It also means that when we bring new features and functionality to you in the future, we can do this across all parts of 主播大秀 Sport online in a quick, cost-effective way.

Your latest feedback

Since we launched the second version of the Cricket and Rugby Union beta pages, many of your survey responses and comments have continued to be very positive and consistent with version one. Our aim with version two was to keep the best of what you liked about the first version, while improving on the things you said you didn’t like.

Many of you continue to find the pages clear, well laid out and easy to use. The changes we introduced with version two were designed to make it even easier to scan the pages and find things, and we’ve seen more of you giving version two higher scores here.

Following the changes we have seen a steady increase in positive feedback overall, with close to two thirds of you giving the updated beta pages 7, 8, 9 or 10 out of 10 in terms of overall quality.

The latest changes to the Cricket and Rugby Union beta pages and a new Cricket scorecard

We’ve continued to listen to your feedback and have been working on some further changes to improve the beta pages. We’ve altered the layout of the headlines area slightly so that the five most important headlines are visible on most desktop and large tablet devices when the pages first load. Some of you said that summaries really help you understand more about a headline, so we’ve added summaries to the second and third headlines when the pages are viewed on larger screens.

We’ve made a further change to the “Team by Team” area of the page, reducing the font size to make it even easier to scan and find content.

Throughout this beta, some of you said that you would like to have the choice to view the desktop layout of these pages on mobile devices. So with this update we’re introducing a new feature that gives you the option of viewing the pages in a desktop layout on mobile devices, swiping across as well as down to find content and pinching to zoom in. If you scroll to the bottom of the beta pages on a mobile device, you’ll see a button that allows you to switch to a desktop view. We’re still working out how and where this feature works best on the new site and we’d love to hear what you think about it.

Some of you have also asked whether we are working on a design that uses the space available on larger screens more effectively. We want to offer users a great experience whatever their screen size. That means windows wider than 1008 pixels as well smaller devices. We’re looking into this, so watch this space.

Some of the benefits of the new single responsive site are evident with the new cricket scorecard page and a new scorecard widget that appears in the cricket live pages. Both update automatically with the latest information and were built in a way that meant we reused a lot of the same work. Some of you have contacted us about the old cricket scorecard design in the past, saying that you were frustrated by the layout on mobile devices, especially later in Test matches when the most current information was harder to find. This is why we introduced tabs in the new version, which focus on the most important information at each stage of a cricket match. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback on the new scorecard and the live page widget. We’ve also been listening to some things that cricket fans don’t like about the new design and are looking at ways to improve the new scorecards even more.

What’s next?

You can now view the changes to the Cricket and Rugby Union beta homepages mentioned above and tell us what you think. Take a look on:

Thanks for all the feedback and comments so far. Due to the positive feedback we’ve received about these pages, we’ll be launching them soon.

We’ll also be introducing betas for other pages including the Formula 1, Rugby League, Tennis and Golf homepages, and eventually the Sport homepage. Please keep the feedback coming for the new versions of these pages as we introduce them.

We’re looking forward to hearing what you think of the updates.