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A Guide to the City

Personalised city guide site Jauntful opened out of beta this week. It is co-founded by a couple of good friends Raphael and Moka and it’s …
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Location Enscribed

02 Mar 2013
In: Design Inspiration, Zurich
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And coincidentally, the FAA engineering and design guidelines for airports, pilots airport map of SFO.
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Yesterday’s Office: About Last Night

The conversation started three hours into the journey and proceeded with a rhythm set by the motion of the train, overlaid with second languages and …
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Location Unawareness

26 Aug 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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How do you design a service that relies on absolute location awareness, when in this context everyone thinks in terms of relative location: “up the …
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Having the Intelligence to Outsmart the Network

Remember when using a map application on a mobile phone was a lesson in frustration and humility? Underperforming hardware, through-a-straw data connection and a choice …
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Pre-Caching Behaviours

12 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Tibet
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Train across the Tibetan Plateau – being out in remoter climes makes for a good place to test mapping software. Unsurprisingly this is not a …
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Expertise Clusters

07 Nov 2009
In: Cultural Norms, Kabul
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The wedding singer district: the extent to which and reasons why particular businesses cluster around one physical location.
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