Tom Jenkins - Interaction Design, Product Design, Design Research

12th April 2010

Heading south of the river to INQ Mobile in Battersea. I've joined their Andriod UI design team, and will be helping to create a new line of handsets that have partnering services like Facebook, MSN and Spotify closely integrated.

20th October 2009

Speaking at Design by Fire 2009 an interaction design conference in lovely Utrecht. Exploring the relative methods and merits of different ways to present Interaction Design, from story telling to prototyping; including some of the things we’ve been up to in the Service and UI Design team in Nokia. The slides are available with videos here and with notes here.

12th September 2009

Tea and cakes a plenty at Interesting 2009. A day of quick fire talks on all things interesting from Indian Superpowers to seeing the colour violet to reactive music with RJDJ.

4th September 2009

Interaction design by the sea at dconstruct 2009. The highlights of the day were a brilliant double bill on Stamen Design’s theory (Ben Cerveny) and practice (Mike Migurski), and stories about moving beyond digital stuff to real stuff and back by Russell Davies.

26th August 2009

I featured in the recent edition of Flow magazine from the Glasgow School of Art.

15th May 2009

Presenting my work to design students at Glasgow School of Art, and rolling in a day of one-to-one tutorials with final year students on my old Product Design course as well.

14th May 2009

In Manchester for a day of Futuresonic, the ‘Social Technologies Summit’. It lived up to its tagline with a mix of artists, designers, broadcasters, teachers, city planners and entrepreneurs sharing their ideas and work. A panel on games design and culture has stuck in my memory, especially Philip Trippenbach’s presentation on games as journalism.

3rd December 2008

Telling stories… presented ‘A day in the life of service and UI design at Nokia Design’ at the Mobile Design UK, new event for mobile designers and developers to share and discuss their work.

24th – 26th September 2008

Feasting my brain at the cross section of design, technology and society, 3 days at Picnic.

8th – 10th February 2008

In Savannah, Georgia for the first annual conference of the Interaction Design Association, Interaction08. Amazing to be within a global who’s who of people making all things interactive: from interactive products, to web services to urban infrastructures an art.

20th October 2007

A paper on the research running up to and building upon Hullabaloo has been accepted into DIS2008 – pdf

25th – 26th October 2007

Back in my home town of Newcastle to attend the Intersections design conference. Amazing to see the north buzzing with design ideas, activity and debate and to see the issues surrounding design headlining a major conference over technology… a coming of age all round.

7th – 9th February 2007

Excellent few days of very varied presentations and conversations at Lift07 in Geneva

2nd - 4th September 2006

Ruth and I build a ‘Grassle House’ sculpture for my mum's 60th - see it's construction on Flickr

29th August 2006

100% Nokian… beginning my permanent job as a User Experience Designer in the fantastic Nseries UX design team led by Matt Jones, and we're moving to a studio in Central London next year.

7th - 11th August 2006

After many weekends of preparation and some expert assistance from friend and coder George Grindstead, Yellow Chair San Jose goes live for 5 days as part of 'Interactive City' - ISEA 2006. A project about networked spaces painted yellow by Anab Jain and myself. See images on Flickr

June 9th - August 6th 2006

Hullabaloo was exhibited in Urban Networks at Art Interactive, Boston, USA. This research project exploring people's experiences of urban sounds, in particular mobile phone ringtones, was created with Eric Paulos at Intel Research, Berkeley.

May - June 2006

Audio Shaker is on the move again with exhibits in BAC's BURST festival in London (3rd - 20th May), and then its off to NIME06 in Paris (5th - 11th June)

March 2006

Eric Paulos and the Urban Atmospheres projects feature in the excellent Make magazine - Volume 5 – pdf

February 2006

Return home after 8 fantastic months in San Francisco. Heading back to London to take a contract position as User Experience Designer for Nokia UK's Insight and Innovation group.

27th October 2005

Testing... This is not a simulation - an installation using RFID tags to construct a visual abstraction of party goers' activity. Part of a one night event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A quick fire collaboration between Anthony Burke and David Ross (Architecture, UC Berkeley), Eric Paulos and myself (Intel Research) and Karen Marcelo (Dorkbot).

10th - 12th September 2005

I was very excited to co-organise the Metropolis and Urban Life workshop at the Ubicomp2005 conference in Tokyo. An unusual and highly successful format brought together a diverse group of academics and practitioners in 2 days of discussion, design and urban exploration.

July 2005

Returning to the sunshine of California to work on further Urban Atmospheres projects with Eric Paulos at Intel Research Berkeley.

24th June - 3rd July 2005

RCA Interaction Design Show 2005 - exhibiting the Audio Shaker and Tourist Information - hidden infrared displays rendered visible through the ubiquitous tool/toy of tourism, the digital camera. Dates and Times

May 2005

Jetsam project features in SouthWest Airlines in-flight magazine 'Spirit' – pdf

29th April - 6th May 2005

A meeting of minds and methodologies, research and representation - teaming up with Sociologists from the INCITE group at Surrey University and Goldsmiths College, London with Interaction Designers from the RCA. Vicky Skiftou and I designed collaborative, visual methods to explore the question 'Where is Greek London?' with customers of North London's many the Mediterranean coffee shops.

11th April 2005

My final term at the RCA has begun - plans for final projects include the development of a project for the Science Museum, London and an exploration of infrared interventions for digital camera toting London tourists.

3rd - 7th April 2005

CHI2005, Portland, Oregon - a chance to meet lots of interesting folk, sniff out opportunities for the future and fly kites on the Pacific.

6th April 2005

Jetsam, the Urban Atmospheres project developed last summer with Eric Paulos at Intel Research Berkeley is presented as a full paper at CHI2005.

3rd - 4th April 2005

Participated in the CHI2005 workshop ‘Engaging the City’ 2 day design brainstorm around Portland – the workshop featured in the Oregonian newspaper - view Burnside Bridgehead project pdf

5th - 11th March 2005

RCA Interaction Design work in progress exhibition is a great success - view images of my exhibit

1st - 3rd December 2005

Audio Shaker exhibited in next2004 in Copenhagen, where the project also made a brief appearance on the Danish station Lorry TV.