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Social Scoreboards

Hello, We’ve had another of our internal Hack Days today, and this time round we’ve created something we’ve called Social Scoreboards. The idea is simple enough. People use hashtags on twitter to represent different types of emotion and often give this a value. Recently my colleagues and my wife were involuntary players in the real [...]

Design Monday #2 – Lunch…

This is the second of our new Design Mondays feature. This is where we take a look at an interesting design challenge that’s outside of usual web sphere. Last time we looked at central heating, this time the topic is ‘lunch’. As before, you can see a video presentation as well or instead of the [...]

Talk [with just text and images]

I gave a talk at the science museum a week or so ago. I think I left the audience behind because I assumed a greater level of knowledge than I perhaps should have and because I tried to cover too much ground. Anyway, it was an interesting couple of days with talks from a range [...]

UI

You can strip away the layers of organisational structure in UID work to create a nice functional flow. But sometimes it’s good to keep it there. Sometimes that history is good, it adds to the experience This is Forge Dam cafe in Sheffield. It makes good tea.