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Polite, Pertinent, and... Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics

Matt Jones (Dopplr), Tom Coates (Yahoo! Brickhouse)
9:40am - 10:30am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Design and User Experience
 Location: 2006

There’s an explosion in “personal informatics:” services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage. Matt Jones will examine how great UX design can maximize the benefits to all.

Primarily reviewing design decisions from the development of Dopplr.com, Jones will also draw on many other applications, devices, and services from the cutting edge of personal informatics, to identify patterns and principles that work for power-users and newbies alike.

Privacy is often, quite rightly, the first concern of users, designers, and developers—but Jones will argue that some other Ps: Pertinence, Politeness and, yes… Prettiness, are equally important for the adoption and success of such services.

The multidisciplinary nature of creating great user experiences is taken to extremes in the nascent area of personal informatics and he’ll touch on information visualization, user-centered service-design, copywriting, geo-location, wayfinding, design for mobile, ubiquitous computing, video-games, “spimes,” industrial design, and even urban planning before we’re done.

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Matt Jones

Dopplr

Matt Jones is a designer. Creative director for the award-winning BBC News Online and Sapient’s London studio in the first boom, then at the BBC in 2001 for the BBC’s web search and a geo-located social network. From 2003, he joined Nokia in design research, then as a Director of UX Design.

He is one of the founders/lead designer of Dopplr.com, a service for frequent travelers.

He has written on interaction design and planetary scale self-replicating robot dogs for 8 years at http://www.blackbeltjones.com

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Tom Coates

Yahoo! Brickhouse

Tom Coates works for Yahoo! Brickhouse where he develops new concepts in social software, future media and the web of data. His most recent project is Fire Eagle – a new location-brokerage system designed to make it possible for everything on the network to become location-aware.

He’s worked for many of the UK’s most prominent companies including Time Out, UpMyStreet and the BBC where he ran a small near-term R&D team exploring media navigation, annotation and distribution.

A regular speaker at conferences, Tom also writes extensively at plasticbag.org and runs the experimental online community barbelith.com.