^ Cover of The Economist, November 23rd-29th, 2002 © The Economist
Today is my last day at the BBC. It’s been a hard, but fun two years where I’ve had the chance to work on some cool projects (BBCi Search, iCan) and with some great people.
Next up for me is a bit of an adventure. I’m moving after 8 years in London [here it is, putting on an amazing show {via 2lmc}], to Helsinki, Finland; where I’m going to be joining Nokia. On my contract it says “Manager, concept development”, which actually means I’m going to be working in the user-experience area of their Insight & Foresight division.
I&F is charged with looking at “disruptive technologies” and trends. I’ll be working to make the insights the tech and business people have with us user-focussed folk into concrete things. Prototypes or illustrations that communicate these ideas clearly to the rest of the business.
The Economist cover pictured above has haunted me for a year or so, so I’m really happy that I can start working in the sphere of mobile, personal, social technology.
I think it’s going to rock.
Petafloptimism 
Congratulations! That job sounds amazing. Are you working with marko?
We’ll miss you Matt…
Sounds like a neat gig. Best of luck out on the tundra.
Hi Matt,
Congratulations! Greetings from Conrad, ex-Motorola. I’m headed back to Sydney for a Research Fellowship / PhD in Medical Informatics (communication technologies and decsion support software).
Cheers,
Conrad
Enjoy Helsinki. Make sure you take the short flight to Tallinn on one of your days off, it’s worth exploring.
Best of luck, Matt! Great to see you so excited. We’re doing some work for next gen interfaces at my office. Always nice to be working near the leading edge. 😀
Onward boldly! Sounds like you’ll be working in a wonderful dreamtank. If you ever find yourself poking around the 50+ year-old’s market, give me a holler.
So your mobile now, enjoy the change. I hope you’ll be able to keep us informed of your progress in this brave new world.
Can you say “dreamjob”?!?!! wow matt, that is so incredible! I’ll be turing green with envy in my little corner of sunnyvale…. and dreaming of the employee who got away…
Well done and enjoy Helsinki – remnid me to mention something to you when we next meet (@ you party?)
In case we don’t see each other, keep in touch and let’s “have a husband & wife meeting” sometime 🙂
mick.
Matt – congratulations.
*Everyone* will miss you.
Have fun disrupting.
As Tom Waits said, it’s been a preasure and a plivilege … All the best, mate. It’s been fun and I’ll miss you. But the advantage of ‘our stuff’ is that you’re not going anywhere really – you can run but you can’t hide 😉 Onward! D.
way cool. Best of luck!
This sounds sooo exciting. Disruptive technologies…that’s so Clay Christensen. Congrats Matt…looking forward to meeting up again some day 🙂 ML
disrupt. with structure. with feeling. make a difference to this world of ugly mobile phones. you. your training prepares you for this. remember, the BIG picture. have fun. rob. >architecture<
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