John M. Buckley

"I think in a lot of cases, if you look at the incentives (and you can understand what those are) you can often uncover why things are happening. And these incentives can drive the organizational culture."

"It’s a heartening demonstration of design’s ability to strengthen ties between citizens, government, and society."

"Frontend’s proposal is less radical in scope, and as such, perhaps more pragmatic. The firm suggests  redesigning how the public engages with individual issues, through interfaces that are already familiar as part of everyday routines."

"Then there are the ones who approached global problems head on. Frontend ... teamed up with the International Organization for Migration to find ways technology could help migrants."

"This week .... we share a chat with John Buckley from UX Consultancy Frontend about design thinking."

"“Serve the City is all about people coming together to fill in the cracks – either for the benefit of the whole community, or for an individual in our community.""

"Part of my role in Frontend.com, aside from standard client work, was to act as a kind of futurist-in-residence within the team; I was challenged to think about bigger problems, to build strategic partnerships and, ultimately, to strengthen their brand position"

"In an era of rising populism, with extremism and distrust warping civic dialogue, a group of Irish designers and researchers are harnessing technology to help reverse the erosion of faith in public institutions."

""Education programs for designers must recognize the importance of understanding how business really works” said John Buckley, UX Designer"

"“There is no best path to landing a career in UX,” says Buckley. “However, it’s quite a sought-after role so, no matter what, you do need to show an interest and a passion – how you convey that is up to the individual.”"

"The Coach Watson initiative is similar to other efforts to use data to enable peak athletic performance, but with one critical difference – Coach Watson will have at its disposal the supercomputing potential of IBM Watson to make sense of it all."

"PR Slides a Dublin-based online media hub for fashion and beauty brands has moved a step closer to its vision of disrupting the PR industry by creating a global digital PR platform."

"I encourage any designers out there with a social design appetite to really read this because this is the kind of work that you could bring to your boss and say, you know what? This is something we could try."

""Change is slow but it’s happening. We’ve created these principles to nudge that change in the right direction,” he concluded."

"In the process, Buckley hopes to promote human-centered design – understanding the needs of end-users first – as an effective way to tackle social issues."

"We’ve reimagined the healthcare system from the bottom up, that can work remotely anywhere in the world and bridge the gaps between the various service providers"

"Over the past year, John and his team have been joined by over 50 active volunteers to make a big impact on the lives of dozens of less well off people in the city."