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Plan UK, Nokia, Virgin Atlantic, BBC, ESRI, Interbrand, Lambeth & Southwark PCT, Norwich Union, Ordnance Survey, Innovation RCA, Live|work, South West Films, Figtree, Imperial College, OISE, UKDesign Council, Oxford Biosensors, Mobdok, City ID, Vorwerk, Oliver Wyman, Maverick TV, AIG, STBY, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Radarstation, Osan Nimu.

After several years in Silicon Valley, via Taligent, IBM, and 280 Inc. developing group, collaboration environment, and social software such as 'Places for project teams' and 'Meeting Centre' he returned to the UK to bring interaction design strategy to Metadesign, Icon MediaLab and Futurebrand Digital. Client work at from this time includes research, strategy and design for Bristol Legible City , Orange, Skoda, Bosch, Telia, GSK, MSDW, Bank of America, Artranspennine 98, Netaid UN/Cisco, Telefonica, Lastminute.com, UPC/Chello, and Peoplecom. Bristol Legible City won an environmental design effectiveness award and is widely held up as a best-practise example in urban design.

His design research projects include 'The bubble engine - Net Archaeologies, Web Geographies, and Active Networking – Issue Network Mapping at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, in 1999, and FLIRT, location-based recreational media, at the RCA and Helsinki in 1998.

More recently Nick has been a Visiting Professor to Innocence/Interbrand, an 'Agent Provocateur' for Orange, and an ongoing Advisor to, and Mentor for, the Design Council's Humanising Technology project. He graduated from the Computer Related Design programme at the Royal College of Art in 1994.

Contact Nick via: nick at plotsite dot net

Gill Wildman is a co-founder of Plot, an innovation agency that develops creative business strategy. She is passionate about the design of people-centred systems. Gill believes businesses and other organisations need to realise the value of both end-user participation and interdisciplinary collaboration to succeed with their innovation strategies and design initiatives.

A promoter of participatory design methods, her passion is the design of people-centred systems. Wildman asserts that — in order to succeed with their innovation strategies and design initiatives — businesses and other organisations need to harness the value of end-user participation in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Her early work, as a researcher and developer of local services, used the community development approach, which emphasises linking local networks and agencies to user-needs. This was amplified and extended by the pioneering use of social visualisations, and other design methods. At Manchester City Council, she designed and orchestrated city wide publications, and methods to engage people in regeneration projects, festivals and exhibitions.

Wildman was a leader of the Design Council’s Humanising Technology initiative, which introduced user-centred design approaches to early-stage UK technology start-ups and brokered collaborations between many talented designers and scientists.

Wildman was Assistant Director of the Design, Strategy and Innovation MA at Brunel University, and has been active in shaping the definition of Service Design for the British Standards Institute. She is now an Industry board member for Innovative Product Design and Interactive Media Design and External Examiner for the MDesign at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee.

A fan of prototyping social and design interventions, her work at Plot gives her the opportunity to balance commercial consultancy with longer term research directions like Happytowns and Everyday Intelligence, which explores the tricky relationship between etiquette and new technologies.

Contact Gill via: gill at plotsite dot net