Crafting grounded insight through robust research.
Shaping strategy & propositions from insights & ideas.
Connected Futures is design researcher & strategist, Jaimes Nel.
Based in London, I provide creative strategy for digital/brand/service innovation, grounded in robust research.
I have a strong focus on multi-channel platform proposition and am an associate of several of London's premier design innovation agencies.
Underlying everything I do is a curiosity for how people and technology evolve together.
In a world where talk about money is front-page news day in and day out, what do people on the street think about their own money?
In this article, cross-posted at Livework, I highlight 9 reasons why the "post-pc" mobile world is ecology-centric, rather than device centric.
Last.fm have produced some visualisations of the digital effects in their data of physical events. These would make fascinating individual stories for design research.
I was fortunate enough to spend some time talking this past weekend with Aico Shimizu from Japan's Hakuhodo advertising and design agency about her experiences during and since the 11th March 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake.