We're at a point in human history where we just have too damn much data to handle ourselves - too many photos and too many records of what we're doing a day.. We all feel a need to go back and see what happened when in meaningful ways to feel a connection with our recent and not so recent past. Some of us take pictures obsessively, others jot down notes in paper journals, others trawl through old social network postings or emails from five years ago.

Our brief was to research and design a Life Diary. Through extensive interviewing, facilitating group sessions and workshops and guerilla interviews on the street we came to determine that most people already keep diaries but just don't know it. If one could have an application that would collate records of everything from what you listened to on your phone to who you might have sent a message to automatically and combine it with the ability to digitally scrapbook and annotate records, the user would have a meaningful way to deal with the digital and historical detritus in their lives.

Our team designed a Life Diary application which allowed the user to go through timelines of all the things they might have used their phone for and with whom they might have talked or photos of travels, trips and events and personalise this.

With Craig Allen and Mikael Metthey.