About MakeMode

MakeMode invents and designs web-services designed around problems people face in our everyday world. We work with our partners and associates to design simple services and engender user cultures that become extensions of the people that use them; that enable people to transform themselves, their work, their companies and their daily life.

We're part of The Digital Health Service which means our principles are:

• to reduce user's digital stress
• increase user's digital health
• increase user's productivity
• increase user's work/life balance
  

We include a digital health audit in our design process which makes sure that we are designing holistic, user-focused solutions.

People

MakeMode is made up of a group of members, associates and partners who work fluidly within each project. Here's an intro to a selection of our core people:

Gavin O'Carroll - Creative Director

 Gavin O’Carroll is an interactive media designer and creative entrepreneur. Gavin recently became a NESTA Creative Pioneer for MakeMode and won NESTA seed-funding to develop Rememble.com; a new type of media-sharing web service.

Before MakeMode, Gavin has been involved in new media in education for the BBC's 21st Century Classroom, Futurelab and Demos. Most recently he has worked as a graphic and web designer with ThinkFarm Branding and Design Agency on brands such as Scottish Media Group, The Listen Charity, ICAP Brokers and Hotwire PR. He is a speaker on emerging digital trends; most recently at the ICA.

Gavin graduated with Distinction from Masters in Interactive Media from the London College of Communication, where he specialised in interaction design, user-research, conceptual models and non-linear narrative. He is now a visiting tutor at LCC through the University of the Arts London where he runs his own particular flavour of interaction design workshops.

Dr Daniele Turi - Associate: Technical Consultant and Web Technology Expert

Dr Daniele Turi is the director and co-founder of LikeCube Ltd, where he is responsible for the development of novel semantic search and recommendation technologies. Daniele has years of international experience in the semantic web (Manchester University) and the semantics of programming languages (Universities of Edinburgh, Amsterdam, and Pisa). Daniele holds a doctorate in theoretical computer science from the Free University, Amsterdam.

Charlie Davies - Associate: Communications and Communities Consultant

Charlie Davies is a writer and consultant who specialises in communications and community campaigns. He founded the Pick Me Up online magazine (www.putmedown.com) and recently worked on developing The Nag, an environmental campaign for lazy people (www.thenag.net). He worked fulltime as a journalist for five years (including two years as Features Editor at The Face magazine). Now he specialises in developing communications strategy for start-ups, small businesses and creative and environmental organisations. In the past he has worked for the BBC, Demos, the Ideo design agency, the Kaospilots School of Social Entrepreneurs, DCMS, the ICA and Transition Town Brighton.

Dan Griffiths - Associate - Production: Director of our web partner Buffalo.

Dan Griffiths is an entrepreneur at heart, has run a successful Flash development company and has worked on projects for clients such as Pioneer, Miller, Warner Bros. Records and local government. Tired with working for a development company, Buffalo was created with one distinct goal - to produce beautiful products that leave an impact on the user. He has previously worked for clients as diverse as BT, Financial Times, Miller, Channel 4, Pioneer and Warner Bros. Records.

Nina Gritzke - Marketing

Nina Gritzke develops communications for MakeMode, Concentrate and the audience development of The Women's Library. Before Nina worked at a diversity project at the website from EMMA Media Online and on environmental and cultural projects and seminars at AGfJ in Hamburg. Nina graduated with distinction from Bachelor in Anthropology and Gender Studies from the Humboldt University Berlin, where she specialised in communications.