Paris B-A

The personal domain of Paris Buttfield-Addison, opinionated bastard, HCI graduate researcher, author and co-founder of Secret Lab. I teach people things, write books and research papers, develop iPhone and iPad apps and games, and wander the world looking for coffee.

Tag: culture

Media Attention; Starbucks

This previous Sunday Secret Lab was fortunate enough to appear in the Sunday Tasmanian! After being e-mailed by one of the editorial staff on Friday afternoon, I did a quick phone interview with them and we were rushed off to The Mercury building for a photo shoot. Jon Manning, Andrew Bennett and myself appeared alongside [...]

Culture out for iPhone

As Jon has noted, Culture is out on the iTunes App Store and as far as Secret Lab is concerned it’s a resounding success – 3 sales in the first 20 minutes of the App Store and then Apple’s stats page disappeared! But 3 sales! At the minimum! That’s a coffee-time! You can check it out [...]

iPhone Release; Culture; Uni

As Australia’s iPhone release looms ever closer, the decision of whether to go with Telstra, Optus or Vodafone is undoubtedly on the minds of the Apple faithful here.  I’ve already decided, I think, to go with the enemy – Telstra. Their offer of free access to their WiFi points (i.e. free wireless for my at [...]