I’ve started sharing my reading lists over the past couple of years. It helps me keep track of what I’m reading:
I also have a list of general book recommendations covering topics including: leadership & creativity, user-centred design, agile & ‘Lean UX’, research, data & analytics, and designing better organisations. Continue reading…
Everything is busy (again).
I’m surviving on something like 20-30% less sleep at the moment thanks to Zac’s arrival (conservative estimate/and I get to catch up with sleep a bit when traveling for work).
This is a quick update to cover the last couple of months. Continue reading…
May was all about the boy.
Zac was born on the 17th May – 9 days late but everything went smoothly this time around. Zac is our fourth child and joins his 3 older sisters in the expanding Holliday household. Continue reading…
A busy month that included the Easter break and a family break to Somerset. In the meantime I’ve been mostly working in London, and we also wrapped up our FutureGov work in Glasgow.
I hit a sweet spot with writing this month.
I made a conscious effort to finish some things I had in draft, setting aside some dedicated time over a weekend. Continue reading…
A quick update this month so I keep to schedule.
Overall, more travel throughout the UK. I’ve mostly been travelling between London, Glasgow and Newcastle. With a couple of visits to Manchester in between.
I also went further afield than usual and flew to Milan for 24 hours, before dashing back for my daughter’s 8th birthday celebrations. Continue reading…
Lots of travel all over the UK this month.
In-between work travel we had a great family break at Forest Holidays near Maldan in North Yorkshire, with a day trip to Whitby for fish & chips. There was snow on the first day of the trip which caught us a little off guard. Continue reading…
I’m trying a new approach to writing and publishing his year.
In my end of year review for 2017 I said that I needed to think about how and where I publish blog posts.
I’m now only publishing new blog posts on my Medium account. It’s much easier and faster for me to write down and share my thoughts using Medium (especially using the mobile app). Continue reading…
I’ve published an end of year review for a few years now (2015, 2016). It’s good to look back and reflect on what’s happened.
It’s been another busy year.
The biggest change for me this year was leaving my role at DWP Digital and joining FutureGov as Design Director in August. Continue reading…
In a world where so many of us carry screens in our pockets, does the world need more, and increasingly, larger screens in our public spaces?
This is a picture taken in Manchester Central Library.
There’s an increasingly amount of touch screen interfaces appearing in physical spaces which doesn’t feel very digital to me. Continue reading…
This article caught my attention last summer: one in five high street estate agents risk going bust.
We’re already seeing this play out with startups like Purple Bricks and HouseSimple establishing themselves.
There’s a lack of digital innovation from traditional estate agents. Continue reading…