Blog
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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.
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Is this really happening?
Another morning, trying to fight down the sheer panic and disbelief. It’s like this has come out of nowhere.
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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.
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Are you Agile?
I think that most companies that say they practice Agile are kidding themselves.
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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.
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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.
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Designing VUIs
Chatbots are taking over! GUIs and NUIs are so last year! Artificial Intelligence is so darn good and freely available that you can just speak and make it so.
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What the Internet of Things means for Interaction Design
As someone who has spent most of my career designing and building websites, I tend to think of interaction design within the realm of explicit interactions.
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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.
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Drive
Drive has to be one of my all time favourite movies. It is, in my opinion, almost perfect.
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How to write great content for your audience
Good writing on the web takes commitment and skill. It’s the difference between a website with a great user experience and a mediocre one, yet we still struggle to give it the same importance as we do to web design and build.
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A design history of chillfinn.com
I guess I’ve had a site of my own since about 1999. I recently re-built this site, mostly because my Wordpress install kept falling prone to various vulnerabilites, but also because I tend to redesign it every couple of years out of boredom and a need to express where I’m at.