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With names like 'Intergalactic Nostalgia', 'Fear Hive', 'Niche Idiot' and 'Artisanal Particle', it was a miracle to see what sensible propositions our teams came up with at last week's Internet Week experience prototyping workshop.
Panoramic shot, courtesy of @ninjabiscuit
The clock's have gone back, the nights are drawing in, the mince pies are on the shelves and Movember is here again. Yes, that time of the year when men all around the UK and the rest of the world sprout hair on their top lips in aid of raising funds and awareness for men's health - specifically prostate and testicular cancer.
Photo kindly taken by Charlotte
We're delighted to be able to announce that Skype in the workspace – the new platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs – is opening its doors to the public.
The free-to-use service makes use of the huge network already offered by Skype, allowing millions of small businesses to promote their products and services to new networks and connections. Members can improve existing connections and establish new ones by instantly sending messages and talking to or meeting face-to-face with peers and business prospects over Skype.
Ural Cebeci, Head of SMB Marketing at Skype, said:
It's been a really exciting year: working with Made by Many to develop the idea for the service; speaking with customers to understand their needs; iterating the platform based on their feedback; and finally, today, launching Skype in the workspace to the public. We hope you find it as exciting and useful as we do.
We're planning a new meet-up for Interface Developers in January and we're looking for people who would be willing to talk (and attend).
With just under two weeks to Internet Week Europe (IWE), we're busy getting together a couple of Made by Many events.
[ELL image borrowed from Dave Hill's London blog; Rory Hamilton with an experience prototype Flourbaby]
On Monday 12th November, we're running 'A Journey through the Connected World' and then on Wednesday 14th November, 'What's it like to be an app?': an experience prototyping workshop.
Previously I wrote about the Alphabet Porridge Idea, a concept for a mobile connected ball for creating and playing digital games. The principal reason for Tom and I joining Made by Many was to explore the world of connected devices as part of a two month internship. This post describes the next step of the project where we developed and tested the idea.
We setup two testing sessions to find out how receptive people were to the two ideas, after collecting feedback we set about prototyping Alphabet Porridge. In parallel we began to focus on two things
A little blog covering some Service Design elements within the evolution of Picle.
I've been creating the user journeys and mapping flows to determine the layout and structure of Picle 2.0 ... here's a little taster of my process.
Hi, I’m Ben, I am a product developer at Made by Many. In July I joined as half of an internship project tasked to explore the world of connected devices. Together, Tom (currently studying Software Development) and I (recent Industrial Design graduate) were given two months to identify key opportunity areas, and develop a final internet-connected product through iterative prototyping and consumer feedback. From the beginning of the project, we have kept a tumblr of everything connected and a little of our progress at alphabet porridge. For the full journey of the project, read on…
There are few of us who didn't dream of meeting an astronaut when we were little (hell, I'd be excited to meet one today). And now, through Skype in the classroom's inspiring new partners, learning about living and working in space is now a real possibility. NASA's Digital Learning Network™ is just one of the many new partnerships that we are launching today; we're also collaborating with British Council, the National Museum of the Royal Navy and HMS Victory, Action Aid, Woodland Trust, Verbalizeit, Education through Expedition.
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