POROUS BOUNDARIES
Connecting academics and startups
Stanford is the poster child for porous boundaries between universities, startups and bigger...
CHERRY TREE
Ambient visualisation
I watched a talk by the great Edward Tufte where he mentioned the idea of using elements of the...
MARTIAN COMMUNICATOR
Tiny touchscreen interfaces
The Xerox EuroPARC lab in Cambridge was a heady mix of Wallace and Gromit-style crazy...
CUSTARD PIE
Text adventure
"You are in a comfortable coffin, lined indulgently in red silk. The coffin is buried six...
FLUTTER.COM
First betting exchange
In retrospect I should have known better. I was the 8th employee of a very stealthy startup, and...
BEACHSPOTTER
All the world's beaches
It was the time of Google Maps appearing on the scene, mashups, and web 2.0. We'd spotted a...
WORLD HIERARCHY
A page for everywhere
Chip Steinmetz was a larger-than-life character who had come to lastminute.com from Disney to...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Global partnerships and connections
I've had a few nerve wracking road trips in my life, but a dawn taxi ride to the Cairo airport is...
TICKET APP
Very last minute theatre tickets
The idea of tickets had bothered me for a while. We all understand ecommerce - you go to a site,...
THEATRE CLUB
Group discounts on Facebook
Our colleague Jay Fichialos at Sabre in Texas had started doing...
POLO SEARCH
Radial date selection
Only once in my life have I been involved in a project that made a test user feel physically...
FISH STICKS
Teaching interaction design
You never learned as much taking a class as you did helping teach one, and I felt very lucky to do...
TOUCHVERSE
Audio + pointing messages
Greg Wolff definitely had the most accurate frisbee throw of anyone I've worked with, having been...
RECENTLY VIEWED
Profitable personalisation
Every time I met my friend Antony for a drink he'd say "You still working on that little...
SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE
Visualising world population
Sense of Perspective is a circle of lights showing global birth and death rates, in 60 directions...
STORYTRACK
Photo album tablet
People tell stories as they look at photos together: grandmothers, grandsons, and everyone...
CATAPULTING
Accelerating technology adoption in the UK
Our mission at Digital Catapult was insane: impacting the UK economy through driving faster...
WHAT THE FLUTTER
Not quite viral
Vince, one of the three founders of flutter.com, had a ridiculous number of siblings, a penchant...
HOME HACKS
Instrumenting the kitchen
I'll have to admit I've always wanted to have a house full of contraptions. Despite managing to...
