Teaching Difficult Histories
I always thought it would be cool to be interviewed. Coming out of the Royal College of Art as an Interaction Designer, I thought it would be all designy and that cool people with cool glasses would be asking me about how awesome I am. It hasn’t really worked out [...]
Mike Alexander, Urban Planner and Rock Guitarist Extraordinaire
I’m interested in what people do for a living. Why? Because what we do for wage takes up most of our lives, and whether we hate it or love it, it has the biggest impact on our short time on this planet. I’m also pretty damn interested in people who’s [...]
Managing to Care
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my short and tumultuous time as a product manager is that, ultimately, it’s just about giving a shit. That and having somewhere good to go. That is, having a vision and inching towards it, sprint by sprint, week by week. It pains me [...]
Top 10 – February 2013
Uncertainty, luck and Black Swans – Yes, more anti-futures and this other stuff called reality. Designers, please wake up, you can’t invent the future. Danzig Coffee shops that sell comics and play Danzig and also happen to be a 5 minute walk from my house. Not being precious about sketching and [...]
Someone Give Google A Medal
Interaction design of the century you ask? The iPhone? Nope. Square payment thingamajob? Not even close. Gmail? Closer. The Undo Send feature in Gmail? Spot on. In a carpet bombing of features and half hearted engineering experiments, Gmail, completely accidentally if you ask me, stumbled upon one of the most [...]
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