Time to read: 3 minutesFlâner is a very Parisian verb. It means to meander, to walk about aimlessly enjoying the moment and perhaps even getting lost. It is also one of my favourite things to do. Getting lost in London is almost easy, the city is so huge, and there’s rarely any sun to orient oneself by. After 18 […] continue reading »
Time to read: 6 minutesThe tagline of NaNoWriMo is “50’000 words in 30 days”. It’s a quantity over quality challenge, but even if you don’t care how bad what you write is, you still need to have a theme or story you can keep writing about. I’ve tried all sorts of topics In 2010, I “won” NaNo. I finished […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesI have been journaling since I could hold a pen, and doing some variant of Bullet Journaling since discovering it maybe five or six years ago. I even started a Bullet Journal Addicts meetup in London (https://www.meetup.com/bujo-addicts/) so I could share what I am doing with like-minded people and see how they worked too. At […] continue reading »
Time to read: 7 minutesThe forest I built a little forest. Or so I call it. My corridor has a bend. It makes a right angle to the right, that you can’t see from the entrance. So in that part of the hidden corridor, a part I only transit through – like all corridors – I hid a forest. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesMy friend found a ceramics workshop at the V&A. Turns out we cast a few clay things in molds, and were shown all sorts of ways to turn them into interactive objects. The only thing we were given was an RFID tag, so I decided to make a page it could take you to and […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesEvery January, I get an email from at least one person in the world asking me if I’ll do the Linear Calendar again. Of course I will! I need it too!! :) The original Linear Calendar, launched in 2015, is precisely laid out to be printed on three sheets of A4 and stuck together to […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes2017 marks the 15th year (probably) that I attempted National November (or Novel) Writing Month. Under the premise of “50’000 words in 30 days”, people write like mad within a month, spurring writing sessions in pubs, lively conversations online, and millions of lines written globally. I’ve tried to do it at least a dozen times. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesOne of the problems I’ve always had is that I my hands are hyper-sensitive to heat. In itself this is small, but in 2017, I decided to stop having milky coffees. I’ve never digested milk very well, and it was time to stop it again. So it would be mostly americanos for me in 2017! […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutesSome months ago, I was working at a lovely software development place that specialises in the hospitality industry. Over there, I was part of a development team that worked on a series of mobile-first web-based task-centred apps. And I was the only person who “did” UX… This is a short-ish story of why I now […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutesI just had a weird conversation with a colleague in our standup meeting. We have a new developer who joined recently and is specialised in working on a particular platform. My colleague argues that if we send the dev my UX wireframes for the improvements, which are made in the sketchy style of balsamiq, he […] continue reading »