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
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