Arizona Political directory is a iPhone reference app, currently available in the iTunes App Store, the uses geo-location functionality to conveniently connect Arizonans with their local and state elected officials. The challenge. Half-way through Fall Semester 2009, our client, a news website covering Arizona politics, approached ASU’s New Media Innovation Lab. The request: create an [...]
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Arizona Political Directory
12-Oct-10CityVerse concept
10-Oct-10CityVerse is an embeddable widget concept designed to demonstrate the core services offered by our client, DataInfoCom, a predictive analytics firm. The widget is scheduled for a 2010 beta launch. The challenge. After an earlier concept done by another (very capable) team failed to meet the clients needs, my partner Elizabeth Shell and I were [...]
Phoenix Speaks concept
10-Oct-10Phoenix Speaks is a mobile, location-based audio storytelling platform which I conceived as an entry to the 2010 Knight News Challenge (along with the SeedSpeak project, which was one of the Challenge winners). The challenge. As a “what is there to lose?” exercise, I decided to dream up an additional project to pitch for the [...]
SeedSpeak
10-Oct-10Made possible with a grant from the Knight News Challenge, SeedSpeak is a mobile social-networking application that allows users to plant their ideas for community improvement at specific locations, and helps the community discover ideas that interest them and help those ideas grow. Learn more at the very preliminary, functionality-free website: SeedSpeak.com. Click on the [...]