Alumni: Charlie Harman,
Sacred events like Easter have inspired countless artworks, but for modern viewers, these works can feel distant. The art is beautiful, but much of its meaning is lost. That’s what King’s College London’s Alight app is trying to change. Alight is a collaboration with the National Gallery and Calvium which…
App Insights Mobile Technology
Tom Melamed,
Most practical apps are a gateway to the Internet, connecting users to social, media or informational sites. Most apps work best when they have a good Internet or WiFi connection. But when the app has a large directory of information – a supermarket shopping app, for example – poor connectivity…
App Insights Mobile Technology
Tom Melamed,
Why do most app developers run a mile from offline app development? Here’s a hint: it’s hard. Two of our recent projects for Enquos and Yachting Pages have been ‘offline-first’ apps, developed to work equally well offline as online. Yachting Pages had a 23,000 strong inventory of products. They wanted…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
When you work in a certain sector, there’s a tendency to assume everyone knows what you know. If you work in social media, you might presume everyone’s on Twitter; if you’re a footballer, you might expect everyone to understand the offside rule, and if you work in technology, you might…
App Insights Mobile Technology
Tom Melamed,
By 2020, the average household will contain 50 devices connected via the Internet of Things (IoT). That’s not just smartphones and laptops: it’s lightbulbs, clothes, even jewellery. For creative technologists like ourselves who work with practical apps like offline directories or manufacturing apps, and experiences for the heritage or regeneration…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Urban regeneration – reviving the underused land and decaying structures that appear in many cities – has become an established force in urban environment planning and placemaking. Emerging in the mid-twentieth century and gathering impetus as concerns about greenfield development continue to rise, the trend toward urban regeneration has seen…
Jo Morrison,
Last weekend was all about playful exploration at Exeter’s beautiful Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Calvium’s Jo Morrison joined the museum’s Rick Lawrence and Sophia as a GameJam mentor to students from the Games Development and Design course at nearby Exeter College. The students have been challenged to make video games…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Like ‘smart cities’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ there are multiple ways in which digital placemaking can be interpreted and explained. As digital placemaking is central to what we do, we thought it important to present our own brief definition of the phrase and practice: Digital placemaking (noun); The augmentation…
Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
Digital placemaking has the power to make a physical space come alive in a way that nothing else can. The past can be brought to life, the future can appear before your eyes or you might even find yourself holding a beating human heart in the present. So what does…
Digital Placemaking Heritage Research
Jo Morrison,
The concept of placemaking is not a new one. From the 1960s, the pioneering Project for Public Spaces have focussed on making urban spaces accessible, interactive and inviting for the public. Fifty years on, placemaking projects of all kinds are visible across most urban landscapes, from outdoor pianos and giant…
App Insights Digital Placemaking Regeneration
Jo Morrison,
BT’s chief marketing officer Zaid Al-Qassab caused a stir recently when he drew a line under ‘digital’. “Stop using the word digital,” he implored at an Advertising Week Europe panel; pointing out that when he worked in print he was never referred to as a “paper marketer”. To Al-Qassab, the…
App Insights Mobile Technology
Alumni: Charlie Harman,
Here’s the thing about designing an app experience: it could end up a perfect little pudding or a saggy old Christmas jumper. And while no two experiences are exactly the same, there are some common UX and design factors that can help or hinder visitors to a heritage site. What…