Project activities: User research, rapid prototyping, user testing, information architecture, interaction design, interface design.
Responsibility: Dan4, Inc.
Image: Detail of map view concept
'); projectN[1]=Array('img/Dan4-Project2.jpg', 'Touchscreen user interface design for a GPS guided precision steering and control system fitted to agricultural vehicles. The system is used by business minded farmers.', 'AutoFarm','Project activities: Research, interaction design, information architecture, wireframing, graphic design, user interface widget library, graphical assets, design styleguide.
Responsibility: Dan4, Inc.
Image: Graphical mock-up.
'); projectN[2]=Array('img/Dan4-Project3.gif', 'Web application helping people establish the copyright status of books and other printed materials. The registry aims to accelerate mass digitization efforts. ', 'OCLC', 'Project activities: Interpretation of business requirements, interaction design, design strategy, information architecture, wireframing, paper prototypes, user testing, specification.
Responsibility: Dan4, Inc.
Image: Graphical mock-up.
'); projectN[3]=Array('img/Dan4-Project4.jpg', 'Mobile device user interface including prototyping, user testing, design development, and detailed content and screenflow specification. ', 'Motorola', 'Project activities: Interaction design, rapid prototyping, wireframing, user testing, UI widget library, screenflow specification, liaising with software engineering.
Responsibility: Dan4, Inc. with Motorola team.
Image: Handset and screen design concepts by Motorola.
'); projectN[4]=Array('img/Dan4-Project5.jpg', 'Service design and specification of UK national program helping high technology startups use design thinking to raise funding and launch successful products. ', 'Design Council', 'Project activities: Shadowing, user observations, touchpoint prototyping, design strategy, service design and specification.
Responsibility: Max while Design Strategist at the Design Council.
Image: Detail of marketing collateral by Purpose, UK for the Design Council.
'); projectN[5]=Array('img/Dan4-Project6.jpg', 'Device for continuous monitoring of subcutaneous interstitial fluid, used in diabetes diagnosis. This prototype design was used in Phase I clinical trials. ', 'International Interstitial Technologies','Project activities: Research, mechanism design, prototyping, design development, CAD modelling.
Responsibility: Max while Senior Designer at IDEO.
Image: Rendering taken from CAD model.
'); projectN[6]=Array('img/Dan4-Project7.jpg', 'High profile technology showcase space including live online chat studio for celebrity interviews and public-facing window-mounted interactive installations. ', 'BBC New Media & Technology', 'Project activities: Project point contact, contractor management, interior design lead, interactive installations development, talks, tours, performance reporting.
Responsibility: Athena while Producer at BBC.
Image: Photograph of live chat studio in use.
'); projectN[7]=Array('img/Dan4-Project8.gif', 'Service concept development and innovation for European and Japanese markets. The concepts integrated handset, point-of-sale and web touchpoint experiences. ', 'Vodafone', 'Project activities: Competitor review, personas, fieldwork and user research, brainstorming, concept development, user testing, UML specification.
Responsibility: Dan4, Ltd. for Instrata, Ltd.
Image: Graphical mock-up.
'); projectN[8]=Array('img/Dan4-Project9.jpg', 'Thermal cycler for controlling PCR processes. This model is for large-scale sequencing labs, and has become a standard tool used by scientists in genomic research. ', 'Thermo Hybaid', 'Project activities: Product architecture, detail mechanical design, plastic molding and sheet metal detailing, industrial design.
Responsibility: Max while Product Design Consultant at Concurrent Design Group, UK.
Image: Rendering taken from CAD model.
'); projectN[9]=Array('img/Dan4-Project10.jpg', 'Workshop for 50 software developers, team leads and senior managers guiding them in the use of user centered innovation and design thinking within their business. ', 'Checkpoint', 'Project activities: Workshop co-facilitation, creation of rapid prototype.
Responsibility: Dan4, Inc. for Living Patterns.
Image: Photographs of the workshop in action.
'); projectN[10]=Array('img/Dan4-Project11.jpg', 'Business process maps showing the people, tasks, and tools for delivery of a complex new service spanning multiple departments, each with their own systems and culture. ', 'BBC Television','Project activities: Requirements gathering, user interviews, information and data analysis, visual design, project management.
Responsibility: Dan4, Ltd.
Image: Large format printed documents, part the project deliverable.
'); projectN[11]=Array('img/Dan4-Project12.jpg', "Interactive video installation for the Xerox corporate showroom in New York City. The installation responds to people's presence as they pass by.", 'Xerox', 'Project activities: Technology research, system design, installation and validation.
Responsibility: Athena while Interaction Designer at IDEO.
Image: Photograph of the final working installation.
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