the Interaction Consortium

Alastair Weakley

Alastair is a specialist in creative collaboration. He has a background in product development and a PhD in computer science which he completed at the Creativity and Cognition Studios. When he is not building websites Alastair teaches Web Technologies to Masters’ students. He has previously worked as a Senior Research Assistant for the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (http:// www.interactiondesign.com.au), and as a Research Associate on the EPSRC-funded COSTART project in the UK.

Our Profile

We’re the Interaction Consortium (you can call us IC), an interaction design and development agency. We build great websites and we love what we do.

We believe in innovation. We believe in the web as a space for new forms of communication. We build connections between people with stories, people with insights, people with appetites to change the world.

We help designers and strategists make real the visions in their minds—we put the highest value on designs and design processes, and we build ‘dream’ content publishing systems to answer the calls of even the most demanding design systems.

We help museums, archives, galleries and festivals take their collections and events online—to create vital connections between audiences and the culture which surrounds them.

We help form multicultural dialogues—between the public sector and communities, between universities and students, between a brand and its audience.

Simplicity is key to our approach. The cleaner the code, the better your site will work. The more intuitive it is to use, the more effective (and enjoyable) it will be. We can build accessible blogs, engaging portfolios, and social media tools with our hands tied behind our backs, but what we most enjoy is what the web hasn’t seen before—what makes your project unique.

We’re here to help, using plain English^ wherever we can. If there's something we can help you with, get in touch. We’d love to have a chat.

^ or French, Russian, Czech, Armenian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Old English^^, or Robot^^.

^^ Seriously.

Our Profile

We’re the Interaction Consortium (you can call us IC), an interaction design and development agency. We build great websites and we love what we do.

We believe in innovation. We believe in the web as a space for new forms of communication. We build connections between people with stories, people with insights, people with appetites to change the world.

We help designers and strategists make real the visions in their minds—we put the highest value on designs and design processes, and we build ‘dream’ content publishing systems to answer the calls of even the most demanding design systems.

We help museums, archives, galleries and festivals take their collections and events online—to create vital connections between audiences and the culture which surrounds them.

We help form multicultural dialogues—between the public sector and communities, between universities and students, between a brand and its audience.

Simplicity is key to our approach. The cleaner the code, the better your site will work. The more intuitive it is to use, the more effective (and enjoyable) it will be. We can build accessible blogs, engaging portfolios, and social media tools with our hands tied behind our backs, but what we most enjoy is what the web hasn’t seen before—what makes your project unique.

We’re here to help, using plain English^ wherever we can. If there's something we can help you with, get in touch. We’d love to have a chat.

^ or French, Russian, Czech, Armenian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Old English^^, or Robot^^.

^^ Seriously.

The Interaction Consortium
Level 1, 722 Bourke Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Australia
Phone: (02) 8060 1067

Email: studio@interaction.net.au
Twitter: @theixc
Map: 37.649034, -95.712891

Greg Turner

Dr Greg Turner (@gsta) is an interaction designer and computer scientist who specialises in emerging forms of interaction, online and otherwise. He is a founder and director of the Interaction Consortium. His PhD at the Creativity and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology Sydney, blended computer science, psychology and sociology, with a dash of art, and looked at how to effectively design interactive systems that support creative users.

Simon Meers

Simon developed a passion for python-powered web development during his PhD research in Computer Science. He is a member of the Django core team and began working with IxC in 2010.

Grant Young

Grant Young (@grantyoung) is an innovation strategist, helping organisations develop services and products that resonate in a networked and socially aware economy. He is an experienced facilitator and user experience practitioner, with a particular emphasis on developing services that enable value to be co-created—that is, where customers work together with an organisation to create value. Grant is principal of Zumio, and is currently undertaking a Masters in Sustainable Practice at RMIT, where his current focus is on the intersection of social technologies and local food production and retail.

Aram Dulyan

Aram Dulyan is a computer scientist and programmer with a passion for Python, Django, and the free software movement. He was the Interaction Consortium's first employee and now holds the position of senior software engineer, making sure that the websites we build run smoothly and efficiently under the hood. He enjoys fixing bugs, contributing to open-source projects, and long walks in the bush.

Renae Mason

Renae Mason has recently joined the team as Senior Producer. With honours in Anthropology/Communications at University of Western Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in New Media Art & Production at University of Technology Sydney, she has spent 5+ years in the eclectic halls and collection basements of the Australian Museum and the Powerhouse Museum. Renae has managed a range of collaborative government projects involving web redesign, data visualisation, content and social media strategy.

Tim Mansfield

Dr Tim Mansfield is a socio-technical systems designer, futurist and researcher. He leads a project using foresight approaches to investigate the future of online service delivery for the Smart Services CRC at Queensland University of Technology. He advises IxC on socio-technical systems and futures, and works with the team as a communications coach.

Wil Tan

Wil is a technologist and entrepreneur with keen interests in Internet architecture, identity, internationalization, and security. He loves building web sites and plumbing together the supporting back stage infrastructure.

Wil is a visiting interactionist at IxC. Elsewhere, he is the CTO of Cloud Registry, a top-level domain registry services provider.

Julien Phalip

Dr Julien Phalip is a Web developer and interaction designer. He holds a Bachelors in Software Engineering, a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction and a PhD in Computing Sciences completed at the Creativity and Cognition Studios. Julien's research and industry projects particularly concern the development of Web technologies to support collaboration in creative industries. He has also taught Web development at the University of Technology, Sydney. Julien is a Founder of the Interaction Consortium.

Iris Lockyer

Iris is Client Advocate and Web Writer at the Interaction Consortium. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a B. Liberal Studies in Psychology and English Literature from the University of Sydney. In her other life, Iris is a published author and is at work on a novel.

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