Earlier this year I wrote about sticks in the ground. My belief that design has to be bold. It has to start with an idea.
It’s arrogant to think you can change the world. But it’s also necessary
I was reminded yesterday of some of the great examples of civic architecture we have in the UK. Continue reading…
In my last blog post I wrote about attention-driven design versus connection-driven design.
While thinking about this over the past few months, this article was particularly uncomfortable reading: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Continue reading…The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.
Last week I wrote about the opportunity of designing for connection.
I‘d been inspired to think about this more recently after watching a TED talk by Tristan Harris: The manipulative tricks tech companies use to keep your attention.
Designing for attention is marketing, supporting a business model built on advertising. Continue reading…
Some thoughts on digital publishing.
There’s not enough experimentation in the news industry, especially within traditional news formats.
In the UK the i Newspaper as a format is interesting, as is the freemium business model introduced by established regional papers like the London Evening Standard and the Manchester Evening News (i.e. Continue reading…
The potential of digital is for your environment to be one step ahead of your experience.
In our virtual environments and interactions we expect a high level of control over how our individual preferences are handled relative to the situation or the context we’re dealing with. Continue reading…
When I first wrote about things of the internet it was a deliberate inversion of the Internet of Things.
For the uninitiated, the Internet of Things is the connection of everyday physical objects through the internet (and local networks), enabling them to send and receive data. Continue reading…
Design in a digital world is, at least in part, a story of dealing with no alternative.
In government, I see no alternative all the time. From a lack of money/funding, skills, leadership, or simply political will power. Continue reading…
If you’re following my posts over the last few days you’ll appreciate how important I think digital is as a lens for how we see and respond to the modern world.
That society will be digital. We can’t lose sight of what this means with the increasing impact of technology in our lives. Continue reading…
Back when I was a design student I discovered David Carson’s book The End of Print.
This book inspired a long term obsession with good design and the necessity of breaking rules. Continue reading…
There’s a trend of people saying that it’s no longer helpful to talk about digital. The argument goes that most people don’t understand what we mean when we use the word ‘digital’ or that it has too many different meanings. Continue reading…