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Danny Bluestone

Danny

Danny is the Founder and Managing Director of Cyber-Duck Ltd (www.Cyber-Duck.co.uk) a leading UK digital agency pioneering the fields of user experience and Web 2.0 technologies. Danny’s entrepreneurial spirit has led to the company’s rapid growth since 2005, when it was a one man band, to its current status as an award-winning innovator at the forefront of the interactive media industry. Today Cyber-Duck works with over 50 clients from across the globe, including leading brands such as Mastercard, Intel and Anton Kreil, star of the BBC’s ‘Million Dollar Trader’ series. Danny is a frequent speaker at leading industry events such as Internet World, and a blogger for the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA). Although an experienced strategist within the industry he also enjoys 'hands on' detailed work on client projects, in addition to focusing on business development and utilising his strong leadership skills to further drive Cyber-Duck to become the number 1 digital agency.

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  • Locative Media

    Posted by Danny Bluestone on August 16, 2010 // No Comments
    Danny Bluestone

    Native Mobile apps and web apps with locative features are being hailed as the next big thing in Interactive Media. Multi-touch user interactions using GPS, Gyroscopes and Web services are at the forefront of interactive media technology.

  • Design by community

    Posted by Danny Bluestone on June 23, 2010 // 1 Comment
    Danny Bluestone

    I recently came across the design by community webpage by Nokia, which is a ‘crowd sourcing’ attempt to engage real users in the product design of a new handset. Every week, Nokia asked real users to comment on important aspects of their new generation phone such as the operating system, user interfaces, materials, camera, the
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  • Experience Design and playing on the senses

    Posted by Danny Bluestone on June 18, 2010 // No Comments
    Danny Bluestone

    I saw James Jesse Garret at UX London last month (end May 2010). His talk had a big impact on my thought patterns. In this short article I am summarising my notes from the event.
    James was an advocate of Nielsen-Norman-Togg’s philosophy and wrote ‘The Elements of User Experience’ which has a major impact on
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  • UX London 2010

    Posted by Danny Bluestone on May 28, 2010 // No Comments
    Danny Bluestone

    Last week I attended UX London, a 3 day conference featuring some of the biggest names in the User Experience industry. The event covered all the latest studies and information about User Experience and was an unmissable chance to apply value from a wide span of knowledge into real client work. For those who didn’t
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  • Jakob Nielsen at the BIMA dinner

    Posted by Danny Bluestone on May 29, 2009 // No Comments
    Danny Bluestone

    I was honoured to meet and talk to Dr. Jakob Nielsen (amongst other interesting guests) at a BIMA dinner on 16 May 2009. Nielsen is considered the global authority on web and mobile interface usability. Before the dinner I introduced my company Cyber-Duck and my background, namely my experience at the Centre of Electronic Arts,
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