Time to read: 3 minutes Discovering UX delights in Bavaria. Specifically, Salzburg and Munich. […] continue reading »
did you know Bavarians were good at UX?
how I learnt to stop worrying and love talking to strangers
Time to read: 3 minutes Today I attended a conference run by Digital Doughnut. I knew they did digital, I knew they were related to marketing, and I did meet people who worked in the field. But what blew my mind was the stories, backgrounds and odd serendipities (is that a word?) that brought them to marketing in the first […] continue reading »
7 with 7, and other instagram statistics
Time to read: 2 minutes I’ve been so terrible at writing blog posts, and I love taking photos. I’m still doing my one photo a day project, and I thought a small retrospective on that topic could be interesting. This is all happening on instagram. (the photos in the header of this page? They’re from my instagram feed!) What do […] continue reading »
sketchbook Monday: interfaces and hummingbirds
Time to read: 2 minutes Some random Monday sketches. All drawn today. The wireframes are from the structure of a website I’m spending some time thinking about. It talks about children and tech (across games, online security, education, and more) and I have to say I rather like it. quib.ly: for techie parents. (this is my tagline, not theirs) They […] continue reading »
business banking: branch, web, phone, or twitter? How @metro_bank won
Time to read: 6 minutes The premise: I got a contracting gig.
The daunting task: I needed a business account to be paid into!
And of course, everything that I could do wrong, I did very very very wrong indeed. […] continue reading »
Sketchbook Monday! Indestructible travel card holders, free to test!
Time to read: 2 minutes Ok. So maybe not “indestructible”. But if you use one of my travel card holders and it falls apart (you know, how the plastic ones do?) within a year of purchase, i’ll make you an identical new one for free! Yes, this applies to sit-on-it-daily young men too. No guarantees on the cards contained though! […] continue reading »
UX: the 7 steps of what I really do for money
Time to read: 5 minutes When people ask me what I do, I reply that I make websites. Recently, I’ve been working as a UX freelancer on various projects. What did I really do? […] continue reading »
“home is where i sleep” – what makes a nomad’s home?
Time to read: 4 minutes I’ve lived in many places, slept in many beds. The first I can truly call my own was purchased 5 months ago. In my flat, I still do not feel at home. What is it that can make a home for a nomad like me? […] continue reading »
Sanguine, by Jacques Prévert. And some Paris photos!
Time to read: < 1 minute As an apology for missing my blogging schedule, and seeing as I am in Paris… And too tired and busy to manage to write a real blog post this week… I’m copping out. I’m going to share one of my favourite poems. A “tasting party” at a friend’s place reminded me of the fruit “sanguine” […] continue reading »
how disruptive has mobile technology become?
Time to read: 5 minutes Amusingly perhaps, my topic of choice this week is mobiles, how ubiquitous they have become and how we deal with their interruptions. I decided this on Monday. On Tuesday morning, it was announced that Microsoft would be buying nokia’s devices and services. I never expected to be blogging about mobiles and my love of nokia on the week its death sentence was pronounced. But there you go. Serendipitous irony. […] continue reading »