That’s the theory anyway, pending my visa application processing going to plan. I’ve had a while to get used to it now but I forget that the rest of the world isn’t used to the idea yet and I’m bumping into people who are very much phased out but the news. It’s a huge move. I’m mostly excited, slightly –… Read more →
Is the new key from BMW an amazing inflection point in everyday object design; something that will be the Godfather of all future car key design, or has it just started the countdown to us not needing car keys at all? I mean, it’s an object not too dissimilar from the object you are (according to this websites analytical data)… Read more →
This last two weeks have been amongst the most intense two weeks of my life. I’ve either been busy, drinking or asleep. Here’s a checklist of what I’ve done. • Delivered a talk in front of 100+ mostly strangers on my specialist subject of User Experience at Manchester’s User Experience and Conversion Conference. • Had 3 coaching sessions from a… Read more →
Day 2 for me, day 3 for the conference (I nearly called it a festival then) and I was fully switched into learning mode. After the afore mentioned ‘Full English’ breakfast (sans black pudding) I used the UX chair lift up mount future, to hit the UX slopes for some black run practice, and some off piste methodology. Abbey Covert… Read more →
Seb Lee-Delisle joked last night, in the day two closing event (where he turned the whole audience into a band using glow-sticks, after we’d all played a game of giant laser drawn flappy bird where we, the crowd, controlled the bird through the medium of clapping) ‘didn’t you all used to be called UI designers?’ I last saw him at… Read more →
Last week myself and several hundred web heads converged on Nottingham for New Adventures in Web Design 2012. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect – some very good things had been said about its inaugural year (2011) and this year looked to be a very well put together gig. The brainchild of a fella called Colly – ’twas a real labor of love… Read more →
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