Ted Littledale
About
I'm Ted, I've got almost two decades of experience working as a Creative Technologist, Web Developer, Data Visualisation tinkerer, and a successful startup founder
Creative technologist
Yorkshire Tea - Brewbot
Digital campaign for Yorkshire Tea that allows tea drinkers to have their mugshots analysed by an AI brewbot to gauge the hue of their tea.
This was an idea I cold pitched to Yorkshire Tea, and after they bought into it, designed and developed the app, working closely with their in house marketing team.
Three years experience working as a Senior Creative Technologist within Twitter Next, Twitter's in house brand creative team.
I was responsible for rapidly building prototypes bring ideas to life before pitching to brands and acting as technical project manager for campaigns that made to production.
Rehab Agency
Created a working prototype in three days that allowed users to upload photos and then returned results based on machine learning analysis of the uploaded image.
Used Next.js as the front end framework and models from Teachable Machine for the machine learning.
Twirl Orange
I worked closely with VCCP on a world first, a Twitter only presale for limited edition Twirl Orange bars.
Acting as Twitter Next's technical lead, I helped execute a campaign that combined live dynamic video and the Twitter api to deliver a unique experience that could only have been executed on Twitter.
Rehab
Developed three dynamic prototypes for a client who wanted to explore how they could use their data APIs to power marketing campaigns to attract new users.
Millionaire
In April 2020 I created a Twitter version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Over 30k users took part, with amazingly positive feedback , one user even called it, "An INCREDIBLE commitment to the entertainment of strangers on the internet". As a result we saw many brands successfully adopt the format for their own content.
Data Viz
Freedom Calculator
A site, built in January 2021, that uses up to date vaccination data to guestimate how long it will be before the UK reaches herd immunity. It updates daily with the latest vaccination data.
The tool was featured on Tim Harford's How to Vaccinate the World programme on Radio 4.
Covid Timeline
A timeline visualisation showing the relationship between covid case rates and local restriction tiers in the lead up to the January 2021 lockdown.
Animal Heartrates
A submission for the Reddit r/dataisbeautiful DataViz Battle for the month of August 2019: Visualize heart rates, masses, and longevity of select mammals
League Table
Reimagining the football league table to make it easy to see, at a glance, how teams' points are distributed.
SecondSync Dashboard
At SecondSync, the heart of our product was the graph which showed tweets per minute for every TV we traced. This one features a sexy animation I'm particularly proud of.
Web development
IBM iX
Acting as Front End Lead I worked with the tech lead to design and implement the front end architecture for a complex data dashboard for EY. This brought together all the data EY needed to perform due diligence into one tool.
As part of the build I created a custom chart component library, built with d3.js, that allowed us to design bespoke data visualisations that allowed the client to easily get insights from highly complex data.
LBi
Senior Interface Devloper on sites for blue chip clients including BT, Barclays, Comparethemarkets and the Webby award nominated Electrolux Art Home website.
CSS Tricks
I've been published in CSS Tricks, the No.1 website by traffic for front end development.
My article details how you can use a stack of d3, mob-state-tree and React to power complex data visualisations.
Startups
Secondsync
As co-founder, Product Director and Front End Lead I helped build SecondSync from the ground up. In two years we developed our social listening platform to become the defacto way Social TV audiences were measured across the industry.
SecondSync was acquired by Twitter in 2014.
Poli
Poli set out to disrupt how opinion polling is conducted, creating a platform where polling took place entirely within messenger apps, without the need to install an app or visit a website, thus removing the friction that has up to now, limited the number of people taking part in polls.
Secondsync
As co-founder, Product Director and Front End Lead I helped build SecondSync from the ground up. In two years we developed our social listening platform to become the defacto way Social TV audiences were measured across the industry.
SecondSync was acquired by Twitter in 2014.
Poli
Poli set out to disrupt how opinion polling is conducted, creating a platform where polling took place entirely within messenger apps, without the need to install an app or visit a website, thus removing the friction that has up to now, limited the number of people taking part in polls.
Dog
Hi, Scout here.
I am dog and four legged friend of Ted. I got my paws on his CMS when he was making cup of tea because I think this site is ok, but it just needs more dog.
This is picture of me with three balls and stick.
Beach
This is picture of me on very windy beach in France.
I think I still have some sand in my ears from this day.
Turnip
This is picture of me with a turnip. It was a good turnip when I forgot my balls.
Rome
This is picture of me outside very old building in Rome. Rome is a boring place for an adventure pup like me but I think I look good in this picture so I added it. What do you think?
Splash
This is picture of me jumping into a lake. I am very good at fetching sticks and balls from water, it is my number 1 best activity.
Napping
I can often be found taking nap on my back like this one 😜