Hey, welcome to Lifesized! It’s the home of James Burke, a man of British extraction living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

I currently work as a freelance interaction designer and user experience fellow. During the last years i have been working on social software applications for the web, social-networking sites, front-end coding, flowcharts, wire-frames and online participation. I’m a designer of interactions both online and off. Before doing IA for web and web apps, i was a flash designer for 6 years.

Work
Recent large project(8 months) was working as an interaction designer with the great team over at Independent IP on their FugaMusic application.

I also recently completed a Facebook application(flowcharts and screen designs) for the people over at Actics in London. Actics is a new way to ethically rate individuals and organizations.

Some professional clients i have worked for include: Sony Ericsson, BMW, ABN AMRO, Philips, Achmea, KPN, Shell. Also picked up a Top 50 websites of year Time Magazine award thing in 2006 for a site i contributed on.

For more information, visit my LinkedIn profile and here’s my most recent CV.

Work inquiries
Send an email and i’ll respond in as timely a manner as possible.

Other Activities
Aside from work engagements, i’m a co-founder of the Roomware Project, an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID. Tijs Teulings, Robert Gaal and I have also recently formed Alchemyst, a roomware experience design and service design agency(site coming…).

“Roomware” is an application running in a defined space. For instance: linking people’s photographs to the screens of a club, sharing musical tastes with the DJ, finding other interesting people on your mobile phone, a photo booth activated by the entry tickets of two people, etc.

I also run the Peer to Peer Foundation together with Michel Bauwens. It’s a global institute researching peer to peer practises. Find out more about what we think and see some clips.