Tim Diggins
Technology Strategist / Application Developer
I like making products that improve people's creative and collaborative processes.
A designer and developer of creative software, I have a wide experience of project roles as strategist, interaction designer, programmer and project manager on 3D-software programming, UI design, and web development (Web 2.0 back to Web 0.5). Interest and experience in best practice agile and lightweight methodologies and insights (TDD, Iterative, pairing, YAGNI, DTSTTCPW) for small and very small creative development teams. In my work I have worked all along the pipeline of product/application creation (Research Scientist on R&D, UI design & prototyping, programming, product rollout and iteration).
Powerpoint importer for Brainstorm eStudio
A plugin to the Brainstorm eStudio real-time 3d authoring tool, for bringing in text and graphics from a powerpoint presentation and turning them into animatable 3d images suitable for use in broadcast. NB: Brainstorm eStudio is used for realtime onscreen graphics generation in broadcast industries.
Permatime
Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone (and any other zones they choose). Use a permatime link to arrange a phone call, timestamp a blog post, announce a webinar...
Corkify
A shared corkboard with note cards you can add manually or sync with an rss source (typically an application's rss feed).
The Challenge Machine
The Challenge Machine is a social site for students to take, create and share "challenges" (online mini-quizzes) on topics ranging from animals and pop stars to mathematics. Students aged from 9 to 14 have used the site to challenge each other, experience and question issues to do with online safety, in a safe environment and reflect on their own learning by the construction of quizzes. Originally conceived by Worcestershire LEA as a means to deliver internet literacy and safety training, it has evolved into a way for students to learn about internet literacy and online safety by doing. Silk icons are by kind courtesy of famfamfam The project was initially created by a team at Soda, involving Matthew Gould as well as Tim Diggins and Alexander Kohlhofer. The project is now being taken forward by Red56.
Team Portfolios
Team Portfolios is this site! A site for people to show the projects they have built, and the colleagues they built them with.
Irrepressible.info
A hugely successful viral campaign for Amnesty International for their 40th anniversary. Targeting Internet censorship, the project enables individuals to re-publish censored material from around the world on their own sites. This awareness raising campaign has reached an audience of millions through its many thousand active participants. Available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.
Sodaplay 2
Sodaplay is a BAFTA-winning physics simulation and web application. Soda was funded by NESTA to develop a new version of sodaplay, allowing for extension, new applications and simulations and socialization/sharing
Open Studio
Open Studio is an interactive project run by the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online while it is happening. The site acts as a 'real time' teaching and learning environment in which staff and students run a series of blogsites—each of them based on the work of its design studios, or its other teaching and research groups and workshops—and all of which experiment with innovative forms of education technology.
The Connected Republic
A site commissioned by Cisco to enable the development of their existing community, a set of public sector issues and discussing issues surrounding e-government.
