Speaker.
Matt Jones
Designer. Creative Director. Web guru. Blogger.
Profile:
Matt Jones is a designer. Creative director for the award-winning BBC News Online and after some time as a consultant re-joined the BBC in 2001 to design the BBC's web search and a social network to support local activism and engagement in politics. From 2003, he joined Nokia where he first worked in design research and protoyping, and then on interface and interaction design for advanced multimedia mobile devices.He is one of the founders/lead designer of Dopplr, a service for intelligent travel.
He has written on interaction design and planetary-scale, self-replicating robot dogs for 8 years at http://www.blackbeltjones.com
What I'm talking about:
Tinkering. Playing. Interesting. Slow. Lessons learned building the Instorematic.
About a year ago we volunteered to build a machine thing to go in Howies shop window in Carnaby Street. It took longer than we thought, but building it has taught us all sorts of interesting things about building, playfulness, slowness, making things with your friends and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
We're going to talk about those things and others that seem related. There'll be jokes and funny videos from the internet.
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My Brainfood
Websites
- The Commons
- flickr account that increases access to publicly-held photography collections, and provides a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge
- Open The Future
- A scientific blogspot
- Information Aesthetics
- Weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization
- Seed
- online version of the SEED magazine
- Kevin Kelly: Cool Tools
- a review site for tools, gadgets, trends, films and more
Books
- Emergence
- Author:
Description: When enough individual elements interact and organize themselves, the result is collective intelligence.
ISBN: 0140287752 - Making Things Talk
- Author:
Description: Projects and ideas to create talking objects from anything.
ISBN: 0596510519 - Powers of Ten
- Author:
Description: A flipbook dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.
ISBN: 0716734419 - Understanding Comics
- Author:
Description: How words combine with pictures to work their singular magic.
ISBN: 006097625X - We3
- Author:
Description: Best comics are always random.
ISBN: 1845761596
Organisations
- Creative Commons
- About copyright
- Architecture for Humanity
- This is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need
- My Society
- Teaching people how to use the internet charitable project and work
- Global Voices Online
- A research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society
- Open Rights Group
- The Open Rights Group is a grassroots technology organization, which exists to protect civil liberties wherever they are threatened by the poor implementation and regulation of digital technology. We call these rights our “digital rights”
Matt, a spooky coincidence - started using dopplr a few weeks ago and very impressed! Also a big fan of BBC News online, although thetimesonline has made big gains. Look forward to talking about geolocation awareness / fireeagle and dopplr :-)