How do people interact with an Alexa cook-a-long skill and is this a realistic application of the tech?

This problem was pretty easy to answer from the start. They didn’t - this was a new world we where entering that we wanted to discover if it was at all possible? Can Alexa help us or hinder us into following a Food recipe?

The first mistake we made was jumping straight into the digital side of the prototype. We thought that understanding the limits of Alexa was key. It helped - we found out that there is an 8 second memory, and could only re-call in a linear way. You couldn’t ask Alexa to go back and tell you how many eggs.

No, the biggest problem was understanding how we make a recipe, how we move around the kitchen, how we prepare for the food. It quickly became aparant that we need need to drop building prototypes with the Engineers, and take them into the kitchen and learn how we followed and prepared recipes.

Team
Stephen Moon
Mike Skelton
Rob Scott
Jullian Tovey
Ryan Hope
Tom Walker
David Fine

An already established brand and as part on a big team I helped make the transition for TV to the online forum. BBC Three went 'off air' and purely became a digital offering in 2016.  Content adapted and so did the the frame work of how we did this. 

I was responsible for making sure that Three had its own digital venue - exciting and relevant to its young audience and balancing it within BBCs GEL guidelines.

BBC Three

Credits
David Gallagher
David Bailey
Sam Yau
Joachim Falck-Hansen
Andrew Myers
Peter Griffith
Ciaran Withington

‘The BBC, simplified for you, in your pocket whenever you need it’

A personalised app that learns and curates content from the BBC based on what you like to read, listen and watch. 

As Senior Designer my role involved working with both key stakeholders and leading a team of designers to create a compelling experience for users to consume everything the BBC has to offer through a series of intense design sprints.

Credits
Katrina Currie
Peter Griffith
Tom Killeen
Leanne Dougan

I was required to produced high fidelity wireframes that could be easily passed on to the UI Designers without need of detailed verbal explanation for a fast turn around. 

The Lonely Planet application could fundamentally work as rich rewarding and relevant app by utilising users own content generated from Instagram, Youtube and Facebook. Submitting all these media forms with specific destination tags will create the ability to monitor the app’s popularity. The most effective content can then be driven into specific areas of the site encouraging users to book flights, review hotels and purchase merchandise etc.

the Student Housing Company provide premium accommodation to to national and international clients for Universities in the UK. A rethink and re-design was needed for an already existing website. 

New and complex functionality combined with gorgeous photography and simply UX have created a very powerful and compelling website that potential students actually want to use. 

Have a look for yourself: thestudenthousingcompany.com

ACDC are known for their terrific customer service, excellent products and agile delivery. Instead of trying to make ACDC something they're not, the new website needed to reflect these qualities.

Large photography needed to compliment they're extensive product catalog. 

In the first 3 months of the new ACDC website, unique users rose by 245% compared to the same peroid a year before. 

Simplyco are an accountancy and contracting company helping contractors, freelancers and the self-employed with their tax, accounts and payment needs. 

The site need to simplify complex processes for diverse users.  Visit the site at www.simplyco.co.uk

So much content. So many different people. The challenge was simple. Provide an easy to use online resource for residents. In the process, it proved council websites needn't be cluttered or tough to navigate.

See the reuslts here Fylde Burough Council 

The challenge was to create a new leisure website for Cheshire West and Chester Council and change people's perceptions of the public leisure centre experience. The aim was to capture the essence of the offer, and the hearts and minds of the public.

Take a look here Brio Leisure 

UBM Aviation provides a unique portfolio of leading aviation intelligence, through data, analytics, consulting, events and media. 

An app was needed to watch international flights specifically carrying  delegates of Routes. Complex tracking systems where used and visualised into a simple digestible interface that allowed users from varying languages to gain immediate access to live data.

In 2013 I traveled to Blackburn to film what seamed  like a typical small northern factory. However there is nothing typical about this place or its people. I wanted to try and get this across thrugh the film.

Most banks offer extra insurance to find plumbers, electricians etc. So why not a Solicitors as well? Enter My Legal Concierge. A fully loaded database that links users with legal advice in their area.

Working at the AWESOMENESS of Studio North gave me a chance to play with our brand new Canon 700D with a 50mm lens. And what perfect model to use than Mr Steve Buckly who has been at Studio North for 10 years. So I made a little pop video for him.

An international annual meeting of representatives had been using an event app already, however up and till now, the event app had been pretty generic in the data displayed. On this next cycle, the next stage in creating an interface that allowed the app to become ‘personally useful’. With the integration of the PRC code to unlock the delegates, the app could now use this to build upon to deliver personal data such as meeting table Diaries for instance.

The aim of this app is to allow the user to create their Manchester Minute direct from a mobile device as part of The Greater Manchester Film Festival. The app will utilises the built in camera functions to record a video that is capped at being 60 seconds long. The user can sign into their favorite social account in order to post and vote.

Studio North are a fantastic independent brand design consultancy based in Manchester. A new brand was being created for and by themselves, and part that brand development involved a way to simply and quickly get across to clients what they would get from Studio North in as far as “The Brand Experience”.

An idea was storyboarded up and turned into an animation that gets across, what can be a complex process, in to a more digestible, fun and informative piece.

The people of Manchester are proud of where they come from, and why shouldn’t they be? This is the place where the atom was split, the Industrial Revolution was born, the Co-operative Movement started, and the first programmable computer and vegetarianism was invented. It’s the home of Oasis, Elbow, the Smiths, the Hacienda and the Warehouse Project.

So when the Forever Manchester Poem was commissioned they needed a visual way to accompany the words so beautifully written by poet Tony Walsh that so successfully strike at the heart.

My role included design, and production of a 3D Manchester Living room that could show the story that was being told. The budget was tight so I used After Effects to create the space that had to feel and live the words that we hear.