Hello, welcome to my website. In these pages you can find articles I have written about design, innovation, technology and my maserati. you can see some of the things I have helped create, and get in contact with me.
As part of Cisco’s advisory services to clients, I work with businesses and the public sector to shape customer experiences and increase the successful use of technology by improving usability, increasing adoption and considering emotional and functional needs.
Since becoming involved in usability and the design of technology, there have been huge improvements in the ease and accessibility to technology provided experiences, mostly in reaction to the success of Apple. However, everyday we find examples of great technology that is badly designed and remains inaccessible and unfriendly, severely limiting access and success. We still live in a world that is incredibly poorly "designed" and I am just amazed that people put up with the poor user experiences we pass through.
The good news is that businesses and government realise that their huge investments are at risk if they don't design better services and interfaces. Design, as a people centric creative approach, is critical to delivering successful services and technology, though is still perceived as something "emotional" and arty. Right brain thinking is needed more than ever to balance left brain analytical decision makers...
Update
Huge excitement at the news that Jonathan Ive has been knighted in the New Years Honours list of Jan 2012. His achievements at Apple and his partnership with Steve Jobs have changed the way we live. It's a long time since I first met him, when he was a student in Newcastle, and for three years he was my business partner at tangerine, where we first got to work for Apple. An extraordinarily creative person, a brilliant designer with the desire to tame technology for our purposes and now with the responsibility to lead Apple in post Steve Jobs era, there could be no better person to do so.
I have contributed to the latest Design Management Journal (DMI) on the future of product design, it's subscription only I'm afraid but you can buy the articles here: DMI
Current Cisco projects include new retail technology experiences for both UK and global brands, Ageing Well projects in Cornwall and Wales and a collaboration with the RSA on the use of video in court rooms. Last year I spoke at the Design and Innovation conference at ExCel, London product design and innovation and in Switzerland at the Industrial Design Summit in October industrial design summit .
You can see the talk I gave in Oslo at the Norwegian design Council's conference on Inclusive Design four years ago which is a very complete version of Lipstick on a Pig: you can see the full thing here Lipstick on a Pig or the short, pecha kutcha version of Lipstick on a Pig for Brunel University at: Pecha Kuscha Lipstick
You can follow me on www.twitter.com/clivegrinyer or contact me at clive@clivegrinyer.com
…and keep up with my bands Crossroads on the guitars page and The Cameos http://www.thecameos.co.uk