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A New Beginning
The Fantastic Tavern was founded by Matthew Bagwell, EMC Consulting's global Creative Director, on February 19th, 2009. -
A Passionate Exploration
The idea was to create a community of like-minded people who share an interest in interactivity, design and culture and are willing to explore and debate various themes. -
Growing in Popularity
On our opening evening, 41 people turned up at the George in London. Two years later, the community is over 500 people strong and the Taverners (as we are known) have met every two months since. -
Hot Topics
While we don't take ourselves too seriously, we have covered significant themes to our industry. We've debated the merits of the Twitter effect, challenged the role of optimisation techniques versus the creative, explored emerging trends and deep dived into total experience, augmented reality and the cloud. -
Want to Get Involved?
If you're interested in reading more about the Fantastic Tavern and would like to get involved, then please visit: http://consultingblogs.emc.com/mattbagwell
We work for so
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Setanta
Bringing sports fans closer to the action
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Home Screen
Setanta-i is a premium video service, offering a broad range of live and on-demand video content. It blends the best experiences from TV and online in a single interface, tailored to different global locales with free, ad-supported and paid-for content. -
Personalised Content
Setanta-i gives consumers tools to personalise their experience, altering the layout of aspects of the interface as well as being able to build collections of their favourite content. -
Live Streaming Video
As you'd expect, live video is viewable at different sizes and bitrates, and is supported with an electronic programme guide (EPG) and live and match information. -
Calendar of Live Content
A calendar of live content provides consumers with an additional way of navigating, setting reminders for and watching and saving upcoming matches. It brings the convenience and flexibility of the Personal Video Recorder (PVR) to the web. -
On Demand Content
On Demand video provides core content to Setanta-i – enabling consumers to access video quickly from a wide variety of sporting disciplines, including recent fixtures and highlights from the archive.
Smart Meter
Changing the way we use energy
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Greater Control
Smart Meter is an application that gives the home user better control and understanding of their energy and utility use. This allows the consumer to resource their energy in a more efficient and cost effective way. -
A Smaller Footprint
The user has complete control of their energy use through the application, as well as other digital devices such as their mobile phone. Key drivers that help the user to reduce their energy use include reduction of carbon footprint and earning green points. -
Intelligent Information
The application provides a detailed breakdown of images over a period of time. It highlights self-generated energy and predicts future use based on current usage. Consumers can also view their statements and change their tariff. -
Enriching the Experience
The above image represents a 3D interactive environment, giving you a breakdown of device usage within each room, and by energy type. The user can zoom and expand into each area, and interact with devices like a washing machine to discover more about the appliances energy output. -
Valuable Feedback
The consumer can receive advice on device usage, for example if they use energy at peak times they'll receive information letting them know what tariff is more suitable for their use.
Tesco Groceries
Taking grocery shopping into future
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Shouting out for Simplicity
Customer focus groups told Tesco that they needed a grocery site that was inspirational, quick and simple to navigate – just like their local superstore. They also wanted a site that would help them make the most of their money. -
Adding Inspiration
It's felt that the weekly grocery shop is a chore. However, the introduction of 'zone' areas meant Tesco were able to inject more inspirational ideas, products and copy to help customers get more out of their time on the site. It also encouraged customers to spend more time online. -
Relevance
As 90% of customers on tesco.com shop from their favourites area, tools such as filtering and sorting made shopping from this section far easier, and through the use of special featured areas the Tesco team could show customers the most relevant deals within each shelf, aisle or department. -
Creating a New Experience
This realisation led us to create Tesco@Home; a new, best-of-breed grocery shopping experience built in Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This prototype was designed and built based on the requirements of the Head of Grocery web development team and the Head of Innovation from tesco.com. -
Fit for the Whole Family
The user is kept up-to-date with To Do lists, deliveries and special offers. The application was designed to be more than just a shopping site and much more like a hub for the whole family, where they could plan activities and meals together, search for recipes or alternatively just leave notes and reminders for each other.
Current Vacancies
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Interactive Media
User Experience Consultants
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Interactive Media
Interactive Art Director
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Interactive Media
Senior Designer
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Interactive Art Director
Do you want to work on key projects with industry leading brands like Next, B&Q, Virgin Media, Microsoft and Barclaycard? Do you have an inherent belief in creating and applying the very best interaction and graphic design to User Centred Design to create delightfully enriched and inspiringly usable experiences?
We're looking for exceptional individuals with core capabilities around cross platform graphic design and art direction for interactive experiences including conceptualisation, presentation, branding, typography, style guides, storyboarding, sketching and rapid high fidelity concepting.
- Leading in thinking and conceptualisation and to provide innovative thinking to clients and internal teams
- Excellent client facing and presentation skills and able to lead the creative design response in pitch situations
- Providing leadership and mentoring for senior creative designers and more junior members of the creative team to help them create the best design work
- Able to create confident and beautiful presentation materials, and provide conceptual based storyboarding skills and hands on design skills when required
We like to look after you
Generous pension options, BUPA, bonuses, share options, cycle scheme and more.
Senior Designer
Do you want to work on key projects with industry leading brands like Next, B&Q, Virgin Media, Microsoft and Barclaycard? Do you have an inherent belief in creating and applying the very best interaction and graphic design to User Centred Design to create delightfully enriched and inspiringly usable experiences?
We're looking for exceptional individuals with core capabilities around cross platform graphic design for interactive experiences including typography, branding, style guides, storyboarding, sketching and rapid high fidelity concepting.
- Working in a team environment with a strong emphasis on collaboration with other disciplines including User Experience Architects, Copywriters, Experience Planners, Developers and the Business team to create detailed client focused delivery
- Providing leadership and mentoring for junior members of the team and to help them create the best design work
- Generating inspiring conceptual and project design work
- Most importantly, you must be extremely passionate about creating experiences that meet and exceed the client's goals and expectations but also creates a new and improved benchmark for our others in our industry
We like to look after you
Generous pension options, BUPA, bonuses, share options, cycle scheme and more.
User Experience Consultants
Do you want to work with awesome brands including Tesco, Virgin Media, BBC, Barclays? Do you have an inherent belief in applying User Centered Design techniques to create intuitive, usable and inspired experiences?
We're looking for exceptional individuals with core capabilities around conceptual design, user profiling and task analysis, information architecture, interaction and experience design. Our Senior UX have the additional responsibility of leading clients and project teams in the concepting and execution of world-class customer experiences.
Some of the tasks that will shape your working day include:
- User experience design of high profile big brand web sites and applications
- Translate user's objectives into an intuitive end to end digital experience
- Deliver big ideas and the magic details
- Communicate and collaborate with the big brains at EMC, such as Creative Designers, Copywriters and developers
- Communicate effectively at a high level in client organisations
We like to look after you
Generous pension options, BUPA, bonus, share options, cycle scheme and more.
Monmouth Coffee
The queues for this coffee-to-die-for would be out the door if they had one. Bloody cold wait, but worth it for the best cuppa in town.
We work in a buzzing environment,
our surroundings aren't too bad either.
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Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Who says you can't teach an old power station new tricks? This massive brick landmark inspires our creativity.
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Shakespeare's Globe theatre
The Globe Theatre
According to Billy Shakespeare, all the world's a stage. We think he was probably referring to Southwark during tourist season.
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Notcutt House
We live here
Notcutt House, 36 Southwark Bridge Rd, London, SE1 9EU.
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The Boot & Flogger
The Boot & Flogger
Fancy sipping a nice bottle of claret across the street from a 12th century paupers-and-prostitutes graveyard?
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The Thames Clipper Ferry
Thames Clipper Ferry
Forget the Tube. These sleek catamarans will whisk you from nearby docks at the Tate and London Bridge to arrive at our office in style.
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The Market Porter
The Market Porter
This often-packed pub was dressed up as the "Third-Hand Book Emporium" for Harry Potter. However, we digital wizards prefer pixels over paper.
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Borough Market
Borough Market
Food! Glorious food! It's a gourmand's gorge fest every day around here.
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London Bridge
London Bridge
No, it's not falling down. In fact, there's been a bridge on this spot for, oh, about 2,000 years.
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London Bridge Tube and Trains Station
London Bridge Stations
We're also an easy walk from Waterloo and Southwark stations. So not only do we build great sites, we can pick them too.
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Bankside Health Club
Bankside Health Club
Fitness addict? You can flex your muscles just round the corner at this state-of-the-art gym.