Designswarm Internet of Things & Interaction Designalex@designswarm.com
2010
Deep City
I’ve been thinking about smart cities and the city experience over the course of the past few years. This first took the shape of a talk and photo-montage for Microsoft Social Symposium 2010. Then Proboscis asked me to come in and use bookleteer to make an e-book. I decided to build on that talk with [...]
Homesense
Homesense is a project that rethinks how we design smart homes and investigate how we interact with technologies at home. Homesense brings the open collaboration methods of online communities and open source to product design research in the home. Done in collaboration with EDF R&D and featured as part of the MoMa exhibition Talk to [...]
Big Red Button
The Big Red Button is a shiny round plastic red button that triggers a keyboard keypress when you press the button. Very useful for presentations and other digital shenanigans. Designed with Really Interesting Group and noew featured at the MoMa’s exhibition Talk to Me. ON SALE HERE
Tinker London
I founded and ran a design studio called Tinker London from 2007 to 2010. Throughout our work I pushed my interest in the intersection of product design & the internet. I was featured in a variety of magazines and publications, worked with a range of clients across the UK and beyond.