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  • Notifications

    Notifications

    Every time I go into macOS settings, I think I have a notification about notifications. In general that little red dot has become a horrible, ubiquitous distraction.

  • Working in digital

    Working in digital

    Do you remember when people first started talking about this new kind of industry you could get into: ‘New Media’, ‘Digital’, ‘Web Design’? I do!

  • An ode to information overload

    I’ve just returned to work after 2 weeks of holiday. Before I left, I decided that I had had enough of being addicted to looking at the endless feed of information and hysteria on twitter. It’s one of many bad digital addictions, and it ruins my ability to concentrate.

  • Is this really happening?

    Another morning, trying to fight down the sheer panic and disbelief. It’s like this has come out of nowhere.

  • The Village and the Haters

    Once there was a village and in it lived many types of people from all over the land, the Mayor, a few rich merchants and a small group called the Haters.

  • ToDo Hack

    ToDo Hack

    Here’s my todo/pm hack – I use the stickies app on MacOS to list my current projects or tasks, and the length indicates the size or how much is left. Just for approximation.

  • Are you Agile?

    Are you Agile?

    I think that most companies that say they practice Agile are kidding themselves.

  • The Great Design Discourse

    The Great Design Discourse

    The digital design and UX design professions seem to be having a great moment of introspection lately, some of it raising important discussion, whilst a lot of it descends into pedantic shouting on social media.

  • Pink slime

    You know Ghostbusters 2, where there’s all that pink slime and it’s making people really angry and mean? Social media and most popular media is that pink slime.

  • The UX is in the bag

    The UX is in the bag

  • Computers and HTML

    Computers and HTML

    Growing up I got into computers around the age of 7. I started with a ZX Spectrum +, then a +2, then an Atari ST.

  • Drive

    Drive has to be one of my all time favourite movies. It is, in my opinion, almost perfect.