PuhujaChris Downs, Method Chris Downs is a Principal at Method. Founder of live|work, the world's first service design agency in 2001, Chris is one of the true pioneers of the discipline and internationally recognised for his perspective on how brands and products can live through every moment of the user experience. He has brought this thinking to the design of iconic and disruptive services for clients including Streetcar (now Zipcar), Orange, Vodafone, Fiat, Aviva and Experian. Chris describes himself as 'obsessive' about data. He believes that data is a valuable raw material that can fuel new product and service innovation. He demonstrated this by selling all his personal data on eBay, and more recently, Chris founded his own big data start-up that released over 5 million pounds worth of business information from Companies House, exposing it all to Google. http://nextberlin.eu/person/chris-downs/Pedro Custódio, Experience Designers Pedro is an internationally recognised as a passionate product and services strategist, he signature is his focus on effective usability & crafting amazing user experiences. He thrives to be accomplished in ‘all things online’, from concepts to the actual nitty-gritty details on how things get optimally implemented, having been fundamental on launching key international services, the latest with Vodafone entitled joyn which aimed to replaced sms's and fix the utterly poor experience on video and media sharing. I’m well respected in the field of usability both for my passion, expertise but also an open attitude towards knowledge sharing which lead me to deliver multiple training and teaching courses in different occasions and conferences. Pedro has worked and consulted in the past with companies as: Vodafone, Sapo.PT, Portugal Telecom, UN information unit, LOQUO (now Ebay's Kijiji network), Publinet, but also key Portuguese government organisations and media and newspaper companies in it's past. Pedro is passionate to facilitate and motivate organisations to design meaningful products and services, carefully curating for their user experiences and he's a natural ‘starter’ and community engager, having been instrumental in the origin of the Portuguese Usability Professionals Association as well SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas For Technology conference. Pedro holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Lisbon, Portugal) and dreams in rich and engaging experiences as the door for the future product developmentPassionate about design education, Chris was part of the start-up team behind the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, in Italy. Currently he teaches at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and is proud to be on the judging panel for the Webby Awards. |