The challenges of innovation and experimentation
I’ve just finished listening to a great podcast from the guys at prehype. I found it whilst browsing Soundcloud, an app that I'm using more and more recently. I like it when apps that have been around for a while
UK Parcel Delivery – How experience design can help
In my spare time I help organise a large running event in The Peak District to raise money for our local school. It's an off-road event over 21 miles, so we use electronic equipment to record the participants times and
Launching vot.io – a digital product for festivals
The weekend just gone we launched our first digital product as Beautiful Everything, we've called it vot.io. The web based app was built for the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival and allows people to instantly rate films on their mobile, tablet or other
Nurturing and Activation of Urban Innovation
I attended the Business and Innovation Network session on Innovation and Urban Manufacturing a few weeks ago and I've been meaning to write a post on the experience since. Excluding the fact that I stumbled upon the session simply by the
Sector convergence and the accelerated Hype Cycle?
We've been watching the development of a few new emerging technologies and I'd like to posit a thought - sector convergence around technology is accelerating the move of new technologies towards the tipping point of product adoption at a faster rate
Tech for tech’s sake
I've just listened to a short radio programme (Hidden Histories of the Information Age) on the momentous occasion of the first live international satellite television production, the broadcasting of the Our World television programme.
THE SUBTLE INFLUENCE OF PASSIVE TECHNOLOGY
I wouldn’t lay claim to be the first to say this (as people have been saying it since time began) but the world is changing. What is different is the rate at which it’s changing, technology development in particular is accelerating at a rate that has never been seen before.