December 6th shindig, Manchester
26/11/2010 in Events
Hi all,
With it getting close to Christmas we’re going for an informal, light-hearted meeting in December. This will involve beer and wine, and food that’s bad for you.
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No meeting tonight, Nov 8th.
08/11/2010 in News
Just to avoid any possible confusion, there is no meeting tonight. We’re going to postpone the session Sam was going to do into the new Year instead.
More news on that as we firm up plans.
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This month’s talk postponed
13/07/2009 in News
It seems the lure of summer is just too strong, so we’re postponing Prof Alistair Sutcliffe’s talk “Does Technology make any difference in our Social Life ?” until later in the year, around September or October. We’ll announce a date nearer the time!
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Does Technology make any difference in our Social Life ?
10/07/2009 in News
Professor Alistair Sutcliffe from Manchester University has kindly offered to give a talk this coming Tuesday 14th July on the topic of technology and the impact on our social lives. It promises to be very interesting…
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Design – it’s a team sport!
26/02/2009 in News
Talking to Rachel after tonight’s meeting (more about that later) I had a thought for next month. Rather than talking about it – why don’t we do it. How about we design something as a group. We have more than enough people to make a spectacularly over-staffed design team (or two more sensibly staffed teams). It would really interesting to see what we could come up with. Either it will be fantastic or it’ll start a huge fight and we’ll all spend the rest of the evening is Casualty…
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Transport: Can public transport be a better experience than the car?
29/10/2008 in News
For our next meeting I’ll be talking about a pet topic of mine. I’ll be looking at the car user’s experience and seeing why it’s so difficult to get people to switch to public transport. Then I’ll be looking at how we might design a public transport system in such a way as to make the experience as good as (or better) than using the car.
I’ll also look at other modes of transport, and see where they fit in a transport policy based heavily on user needs.
Some of the solutions I’ll mention already exist in early form, some are much more futuristic, but most are achievable with current technologies. This isn’t sci-fi, but full implementation would be expensive. So I’ll talk a little bit about how we might afford these systems, and the other social benefits which might arise from moving beyond the car.
Right – now I’m going to drive over to York! See you all next time.
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July 2nd
03/07/2008 in Events
Great to meet Chris, Mike and Rachel, and of course Jackie (but we know each other already, from Lancaster). I certainly found the conversation got my grey matter working, which I always enjoy.
Couple of sites to look at…
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ - written by Joel Spolsky, which I really like. Great writing style (well, it would be he wrote an essay on that too) and some very interesting ideas.
http://www.ted.com/ – If you’ve not seen the TED talks, there are some great design related ones. Jackie, if you can tear yourself away from the cooking and homely arts this will be a great distraction – assuming you’ve not devoured them all already.
If you look at http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/60092 you’ll see my profile there with some of my favourite talks – no desperately design related, but what the heck.
Yes, I remember, I somehow accidentally volunteered to talk about designing for older people. I can also talk about personas (till the cows come home). I’m giving a one day tutorial on personas at HCI 2008 in Liverpool again this year (did it last year) so do tell everyone and I’ll be your friend forever. I’m also putting together a half day session for executives called “Design Matters”. I’d love to run this by a test audience, so before you get sick of the sound of my voice I’d love to try this out on you and get your views. Very much focussed on helping execs understand why design is important.
Looking forward to next month, see you then.
–Pete
