Journal.
New year's resolve | 2 January 2010
I rarely do this, but I’m feeling in the mood for making some resolutions for this particular new year.
Storytelling, with a flat white to go | 16 December 2009
On baristas and wireframes, and the importance of demonstrating your craft to create understanding.
Favourite things: November | 5 December 2009
Conferences, Whitney Hess, and the Temptations of WordPress feature in this month’s round of favourite things for November.
‘You've got to find what you love’ | 27 November 2009
I was talking this week with an old client I hadn’t seen for years, and recalled the importance to me of this commencement speech by Steve Jobs.
Book review: ‘Card sorting: designing usable categories’ | 4 November 2009
Card sorting might seem like pretty dry stuff: a book about order, categorisation, pattern analysis. But ‘Card sorting: designing usable categories’ is great. And the reason is its author.
Favourite things: October | 3 November 2009
The second in my regular monthly round-ups of the stuff that’s been inspiring me or sparking my interest during the previous month.
Why I'm wearing a poppy | 2 November 2009
Seventy years ago, the paths of my family’s lives changed irrevocably.
Getting Playful | 1 November 2009
Pixel-Lab’s Playful made for a thoughtful, consistently interesting and challenging day out. But most of all, it was fun.
To thine own self be true | 30 October 2009
This week, I announced to my team and to my colleagues at the web agency I’ve worked with for four years that I would be leaving.
Everything just changed | 22 October 2009
As Donald Byrd put it, ‘Change, makes you wanna hustle’.
Electric Revolution | 19 October 2009
BBC4’s Electric Revolution series has left me feeling very nostalgic. But lucky too.
Broken wireframes | 13 October 2009
How do we make wireframes that communicate better to our clients without alienating designers and developers?
On Tyler and Twitter | 9 October 2009
Tyler Brûlé is right to fight back against the incessant demands for our attention, but he picks a poor target in Twitter.
Favourite things: September | 2 October 2009
A round up of the designs, ideas and debates that have interested and inspired me during the month.
Textpattern and WordPress take two very different routes to a release | 7 September 2009
Textpattern’s latest release defines more clearly than ever who Textpattern is – and isn’t – for. But it’s a different story for WordPress.
De-constructing dConstruct '09 | 4 September 2009
Adam Greenfield, Robin Hunicke, Stamen and more leave me feeling inspired and lucky after this year’s dConstruct.
Where ‘chilling’ ambition meets cold reality | 1 September 2009
James Murdoch’s speech to the Edinburgh International Television Festival attracted much coverage – but was the BBC’s digital domination, and not TV, the true target?
Yahoo's new home page shows promise, but... | 1 August 2009
Taking a look at Yahoo’s recent overhaul of the most visited page on the web.
Short link syndrome | 30 June 2009
URL shortening is storing up problems for the future, but encouraging blind clicking of links matters here and now.
@media is dead. Long live @media | 28 June 2009
This year’s @media at the Southbank Centre was the event’s fifth, but only my second. Conferences like this are a special thing. An opportunity to remind yourself why you do what you do and determine to be better at it.