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Matt Jones

Designer. Creative Director. Web guru. Blogger.

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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.


Comments:

Posted by: Jon Moss on 20th August 2008 19:50:03

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 :-)

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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
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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

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Emergence
Steven JohnsonWhen enough individual elements interact and organize themselves, the result is collective intelligence.ISBN: 0140287752
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Tom IgoeProjects and ideas to create talking objects from anything.ISBN: 0596510519
Powers of Ten
Charles and Ray EamesA flipbook dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.ISBN: 0716734419
Understanding Comics
Scott McCloudHow words combine with pictures to work their singular magic.ISBN: 006097625X
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