Charlie Harman,
While Calvium has been banging the drum for digital placemaking for the last few years, we’ve been studying the relationship between people, place and technology for much, much longer. Looking back at our earliest publications, it’s reassuring to see that we’ve always been talking about the connection between people, place…
Charlie Harman,
Just like painting or writing, app development is a creative process. Armed only with a client brief and our imaginations, expertise and tools, Calvium creates app experiences. Each one unique, each one requiring its own approach. App development to us is a combination of technology, storytelling, user experience, creativity, collaboration…
Jo Morrison,
On 10 January 1985, at Alexandra Palace in North London, press gathered for the launch of something truly exciting. Clive Sinclair, inventor of the best-selling ZX Spectrum home computer, had claimed to have reinvented travel, “[putting] personal, private transport back where it belongs – in the hands of the individual.”…
Jo Reid,
Why do you do what you do? Without wanting to throw you into an existential crisis, it’s a crucial question for all businesses, and the people within them. At Calvium, we’re lucky to have a hugely talented team – a fantastic blend of experienced developers, UX experts, account managers, researchers…
Tom Melamed,
The app economy is changing. Both Apple and Google have made significant policy announcements that will reshape how apps need to be developed, updated and promoted – changes which ultimately force through the best practice that brands should have adopted years ago. They’ve created a necessity – and an opportunity…
Kieron Gurner,
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has made data collection and personalised experiences synonymous with data misuse and election-rigging – but in app technology, personalisation doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Personalisation offers users and visitors options for how they’d like their content to look, and lets them choose what they…
Jo Reid,
Throughout his period as Chancellor, Philip Hammond has repeatedly emphasised the UK’s “productivity puzzle”. It’s a catchy name for the UK’s stagnant productivity growth since the ‘08 financial crisis. The UK’s productivity growth has plateaued at 2%. It’s not a decline, sure. But the stalling of productivity growth is probably…
Jo Morrison,
The International Theatre Engineering & Architecture Conference (ITEAC) covers the full spectrum of theatre innovation. This year it is concentrating on the new ways in which performance spaces are developing. Increasingly, both on stage, behind the scenes and in the public realm, theatre teams are creatively blending technology and architecture…
Tom Melamed,
If you went to a restaurant in the South of France where the menu was entirely in French, the waiter spoke no English and you non parles bon Francais, monsieur, you’ll need a translator. This could be an English/French Dictionary, a human translator or, more commonly nowadays, Google Translate. Imagine…
Jo Morrison,
In his 2017 London Plan, Mayor Sadiq Khan put culture at the centre of his vision for the capital. As well as promoting London as a true ’24-hour city’ and protecting and promoting the creative sector there, the plan also provides for new Cultural Quarters. These ‘attractive and vibrant areas…
App Insights Engineering Mobile Technology
Charlie Harman,
The fourth Industrial Revolution is here. AI, AR, Machine learning, the IIoT – each, in its own way, promises to change the way businesses of all stripes work. The companies of 10 years’ time will be unrecognisable from those of today. Alongside these precursors to a utopic ‘smart’ future, however,…
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…