So there’s lots of data around about how young people use the internet and various hypotheses drawn from this data. There is a lack of, however, commentary about how it makes us feel using it, probably because there is not tangible, easily measurable way of capturing this.
The website ‘The Web Makes Me Feel’ is attempting change this by collating the short snippets of how the internet makes young people feel. It focuses on 13-19 year olds and will capture their motives, actions and activities in an unbiased, non-influential manner. No leading questions, just emotions noted down. No excel chart or anything but it will hopefully highlight some interesting trends and gaps for solutions and tools.
22nd October 2009 | 2 Comments
A few months ago the Face Wired team sat down to discuss the direction we wanted to take Headbox in. The first thing we decided was that the site needed a bit of a spruce up, just to make sure the aesthetics matched the forward thinking of co-creation. We began by throwing some ideas around; basically trying to establish exactly what Headboxers really wanted from the site. What would keep them coming back? What would keep them entertained? How can we keep thousands of people excited and engaged in what we do? Several hours of debate and deliberation (a.k.a. arguing) later we were stuck in a deadlock. We knew what we wanted but didn’t really know how to get there; it was at this point we realized where we were going wrong.
29th June 2009 | No Comments »
