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Paying Speakers is Better for Everybody 17 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
When I attend a conference I’m not there for the food or the venue, I’m there for the content (and occasionally the after parties). So it amazes me that conference organisers typically pay for everyth...
Does TfL deliberately profit from user error? 15 Apr 2013 | 05:43 pm
Today I got a £20 penalty fine from TfL (Transport for London) because it turned out that I didn’t have enough credit on my Oyster card. I typically use the underground so when this happens you’re sto...
Why The Same Old Faces? 27 Mar 2013 | 08:53 pm
In an eailier post I discussed one reason why some people may perceive a lack of new faces on the speaker circuit — namely that by the time you reach the point in your career where you’re being asked ...
Should Programming be Taught at Schools? 26 Mar 2013 | 03:43 am
There’s a lot of buzz around technology education at the moment. The old ICT courses which taught children to be passive consumers are being overturned as schools in the UK are encouraged to set up t...
The Post-digital Renaissance 24 Mar 2013 | 04:50 pm
We first saw it with food. People getting back to nature and growing their own veggies, or hitting the kitchen to bake their own sour dough. We then saw it with the the rise of the craft movement, ins...
Trends in Web Design 17 Feb 2013 | 05:51 am
The growth of UX Design vs. the decline of Interaction Design and Information Architecture IA vs. CS Agile Methodology vs. Lean Start-up The growth of Responsive Design
It’s All Academic 3 Feb 2013 | 01:21 am
Considering the World Wide Web was created to facilitate the sharing of academic research, I’ve always been surprised by how little of this I see online. In the early days of the Web, most of the shar...
The Same Old Faces 18 Jan 2013 | 12:33 am
I occasionally hear people grumbling on Twitter about the “same old faces” appearing in web design magazines and at conferences. As somebody who takes an active interest in nurturing new talent, I’d h...
A few of my favorite talks throughout the years 5 Dec 2012 | 02:23 pm
Design for Start-ups at Pioneers Festival 2012 Beyond the Mobile Goldrush at iakonferenz 2011 Persuasive Design: Encouraging Your Users To Do What You Want Them To! at IceWeb 2010 Seductive Design ...
It's Design all the way down 14 Sep 2012 | 09:15 pm
A lot of the discussions I have about our profession end with somebody saying “Well it’s all just design really”, or “it’s just good design and bad design”. This is a great way of ending a conversatio...
