Tweetminster Founder on User Experience at G2010 Event

Andrew Walker is Co-founder and Creative Director of Tweetminster, the Twitter based politics news and analysis utility.  He will be speaking in the Open Data section of our G2010: Open Technology Event on April 22, 2010. 

Andrew has worked on the internet as a designer, developer and strategist for 15 years. Formerly a research fellow at the Loughborough University School of Art and Design in computers and cognition and MD of London based digital media agency Thin Martian, Andrew has worked on hundreds of  apps, games, communications and web projects for public sector and corporate clients ranging from Hansard to Xbox.  

At Tweetminster Andrew has helped to drive the agile development of apps, analysis tools and semantic search technology to make political conversations more accessible, monitor the use of social media by politicians and analyse the debates that shape UK politics.  He will discuss how open web data and technologies are impacting government communications and citizen interaction. 

“The challenge facing any app developer, especially with government data, of making the user experience and banding as strong as commercial offerings. Government apps must compete for time with professional tools, news websites and social networks, or integrate into those environments – either way  to be relevant to web users they’ve got to be intelligent, social and genuinely useful.”