I’ve been doing a bit of work around dashboards at Rattle. Despite the interest in dashboards there’s precious little in the way of analysis of existing dashboards, for example car dashboards and how their patterns are designed for ‘blink’ interpretation and of course pretending. However, I did come across this in the Nissan GT-R, a [...]
Tagged: dashboard
This tweet got me thinking about how I use different web services and how fundamentally the value I derive from my consumption online is now dependent upon different stuff that talks to each other. Ecosystems. Tom refers to Instapaper in his tweet but I think this tool is illustrative of a broader move toward web [...]
Categories: design,socialsoftware
Tagged: design, ecosystem, instapaper, newspaper
We tend to do a lot of conference calls with clients and also team catch-up calls. And, if I’m honest, my mind can drift a bit. The attention deficit created by my screen based workflows means I’m often missing from the moment. The lo-fi solution to improving engagement is Crispin’s Tengu, which is employed to [...]
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This talk was given at Lovebytes on the 12 Feb 2010. Thanks to Lisa for the invitation. Tom Armitage gave a talk a few years ago about manners and etiquette which has stayed with me and which, with the recent meme around playfulness and Russell’s talk at Playful last year, got me thinking about how [...]
Categories: conferences,design,interaction design,society
Tagged: design, friction, latour, lovebytes, social, talk, welovetechnology
I listened to Clever.com a programme on the excellent Analysis strand on Radio 4 on the 15th March. It was narrated by Stephen Fry and it concerned the issue of whether the web is bad for us, you know, whether it’s making us dumber, negating the need to endure pre-digital learning processes. That kind of [...]
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This post is undertaken for the Ada Lovelace Pledge. I’ve been fortunate to work with a number of brilliant women in technology. Mostly those I met at the BBC including Paula La Dieu, Alice Taylor, Anne Fairbrother, Priya Prakash and Anno Mitchell and those I only met fleetingly but who’s reputation and work was well [...]
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Du Pont from the 60s still with its original sticky backing. 2 rolls came yesterday courtesy of the excellent Superbuzzy. Odd to think that this stuff was stored for 40 yrs. Kennedy was being shot the last time this stuff was being used.
Categories: design
Came across this Thames and Hudson sketchbook or doodlebook in Foyles. I like the tacit understanding that it’s hard to know where to start to sketch, that a blank canvas requires you think not unlike the paradox of choice when faced with near unlimited possibilities to consume. But sometimes you just want to be given [...]
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"… with a view to informing decisions and taking action." Maps are perhaps the oldest and best forms of visualising data. Met up with Danny Dorling last night, Professor Danny Dorling to you, master of maps which actually kind of underplays the incredibly important role he has in defining social policy, especially in the UK. [...]