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 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…
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights Mobile Technology
Alumni: 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,…
Arts & Culture Digital Insights
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…
Digital 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…
Digital 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…
Digital Placemaking Digital Insights
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…
Digital 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 Digital Insights
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…
Digital 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…