Jo Morrison,
January’s Let’s Get Real 2019 Conference saw speakers from across the arts and cultural heritage sector converge to discuss the intersection of digital practice and social purpose at London’s Wellcome Trust. The event demonstrated the power of digital practice for driving social change – including ‘changes to our identity, our wellbeing,…
Jo Morrison,
“The quality of spaces between buildings is now as important to us as the quality of the buildings themselves.” – City of London Corporation, 2015 Well-considered, attractive and useful public spaces can increase investment, property values, revenue, livelihood opportunities and much more. But how can developers and local authorities make the…
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Charlie Harman,
Calvium is pleased to have won Innovate UK funding to develop a mobile wayfinding application to enable people with less visible impairments to navigate railway stations independently and with confidence. In partnership with Transport for London (TfL), Open Inclusion and Transport Systems Catapult we shall deliver a digital wayfinding solution…
Charlie Harman,
Augmented reality (AR) is huge. So huge, in fact, that a recent report from Greenlight Insight predicts that global revenue for AR content and devices will reach $36.4bn in 2023 – a whopping 11 times higher than their predicted revenue for 2019. To date, the success of the likes of…
Jo Morrison,
What’s the first thing that jumps into your head when you hear the words digital innovation? For most, it will be bleeding-edge technology – the Internet of Things, automation, pervasive artificial intelligence (AI) and all things ‘immersive’ or ‘deep’. Yet the key to digital innovation for business is not the…
Jade Evans,
Engaged workforces outperform their lower-engagement competitors by more than 200%—streaking ahead in terms of profitability, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee attendance and workplace safety. It’s no wonder, then 2/5 of businesses say employee engagement is their number one challenge. Employees are 87% less likely to leave their role if highly engaged,…
Arthur Graham,
How can you make yourself 23% less likely to make errors at work? Simple: by putting your phone out of sight and out of reach. That’s what a Florida State University team found in their study on the effects digital devices have on our productivity and focus. Understanding that technology…
Jo Morrison,
Much has been made of the so-called ‘death of the high street’ and some of the blame often falls at the feet of digital technology. This is understandable as online and app-based retail has driven a change in consumer behaviour – shopping from the comfort of our own homes is…
Jade Evans,
In his book ‘The Power of Habit’, writer Charles Duhigg has explored how US supermarket Target can predict, with remarkable accuracy, when female customers are in the early stages of pregnancy. How do they do it? With data. Like many retailers, Target has built a sophisticated data analysis system to…
Charlie Harman,
Even though he might now be in contravention of GDPR (article 4 of regulation 2016/679, in case you were curious), Father Christmas is an unmistakably analogue creation. With a wooden sleigh and flesh and blood reindeer held aloft by little more than a generous sprinkling of Christmas magic, he’s a…
Charlie Harman,
In 2018, we’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly of app technology. Let’s start with the good. Apps are no longer a novelty, they’re a known quantity. As such, the technology itself is not enough to wow an audience, the really great apps have to have a solid…
Charlie Harman,
A year in apps is a decade in most other industries. At this time of year, it’s therefore always interesting to sit back and take stock of our industry and where it’s headed. So what were our key moments in smartphone and app tech this year? January In Rotterdam, local…