Time to read: 8 minutesHave you ever had to put a UX portfolio together? I have. And I’ve had to go through bunches of them when interviewing people, trying to decide who might be a good future colleague. It’s very difficult. I recently participated in a portfolio feedback session with MA students in User eXperience (UX) in which another […] continue reading »
Best books of 2020
Time to read: 5 minutesWhat is good How do you decide what makes a book good, or even the best? I use a simple litmus test. If I want to give it as a gift, or recommend it for a read, then it’s worth something. If a few months later I forget, what it was it even said, then […] continue reading »
Linear Calendar 2021
Time to read: 2 minutesLinear Calendar turns 6! I started the Linear Calendar in 2015, so this year it turns 6!! Six is also the number of people who contact me every year asking me if I’m making a new edition… usually around late January, because I have been lazy. Except this year. Somehow, this year, I sat down […] continue reading »
NaNoWriMo learnings 2020 – Part 3 – Writing
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 »
NaNoWriMo learnings 2020 – Part 2 – Efficiency
Time to read: 5 minutes“I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year!” Na-No-Wri-Mo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and is a 30-day challenge to write 50’000 words. The premise requires that it be on a new story, not an editing job. The tagline of NaNoWriMo is “50’000 words in 30 days”. And every NaNo-er knows that means writing a daily quota […] continue reading »
NaNoWriMo learnings 2020 – Part 1 – Motivation
Time to read: 4 minutes“I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year!” And I can see the eyes glaze over, the ears perk up in case they could pick up an extra syllable I may have left hanging in the air, that might help them decipher this… sound I just made. Na-No-Wri-Mo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and is a 30-day […] continue reading »
Bullet Journal layout prototyping and planning
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 »
The mental health forest
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 »
Linear calendar 2020!
Time to read: 2 minutesHere is the next instalment of the Linear Calendar! In the past year, I’ve ended up using the Linear Calendar a lot to plan workshops, design sprints and projects. I also make strips of it to make a team calendar / timeline. All of those uses required a single strip of the thing, so I […] continue reading »
Interactive ceramics
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 »