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  • Raising the visibility of your brand: Integrating search marketing and social media.

    16th August 2012

    A presentation on the interplay between search marketing and social media; originally prepared for a conference in Singapore. Credits to Simon Nash, Tom Voirol and Mark Kelly Transcript: Raising the Visibility of Your BrandIntegrating Search Marketing and Social Media Is your digital marketing… see more

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    Mobile UX part 2: Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with!

    10th August 2012

    Something odd happened with the advent of the smartphone. A gadget – a piece of plastic, metal and circuitry – became something we take everywhere…. and I really mean EVERYWHERE. Most of us have long since got used to taking our phone to the pub, to restaurants, on long journeys –… see more

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    Design Jam London #5

    7th August 2012

    Recently, a couple of RR-ers took part in Design Jam London – a UX hack day, where over the course of a day and a half, a bunch of strangers get together, form teams and work together to tackle a challenge. Design Jams are a really unique way of getting UX-ers together – you go... see… see more

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    Nervous excitement…

    6th July 2012

    I’m now in France and sat on the TGV train speeding towards the base of Alpe D’Huez, the legendary climb that will be the final and probably the hardest climb of La Marmotte. I’m both excited and nervous about this climb. Excited because it is probably the most famous climb in… see more

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    Training is in the bag!

    25th June 2012

    It’s been over 2 weeks since my last blog, I’m sorry, and plenty has happened. A new bike, over 750kms of training, a hill record and a personal training goal achieved. So I’d mentioned at the end of my last blog that my new bike had arrived and was nearly ready to roll. I finally... see more… see more

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    Mobile Innovation Fast

    19th June 2012

    A lot can happen in 48 hours… In true Olympian style, Reading Room recently completed a Mobile Hackathon over a 48 hour period, running a relay of designing and building a mobile webapp across our offices in London, Manchester, Singapore and Australia. Together with our client Prostate Action and… see more

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    Mobile UX – part 1: We’re still human

    18th June 2012

    Q: When you think about mobile user experience – should you think first about designing for iphone, or designing for ipad or for a general smartphone?  The answer is “none of the above”. You should think “I’m designing for a human being – who happens to be using a mobile device”.… see more