Day 120 | Week 17 summary
April 29, 2012
This was the week where I unexpectedly got to spend two days working on byflock, but also the week where the year fast forwarded two days.
Month: April 2012
Day 119 | A little sentimental but feeling happy
April 29, 2012
My friend left today. As always when someone from back home leaves I get a little sentimental, missing them and wishing Sweden was a tube ride away rather than a flight, but at the same time I feel really happy.
Day 118 | Ponders from a girly dinner
April 28, 2012
I’ve got a friend from back home staying at the moment and yesterday we gathered the girls and had dinner over at ours. Some of them hadn’t seen each other in a really long time and as we chatted through what’s happened since last time, four themes emerged.
Day 117 | Or Day 115 as I thought it was
April 27, 2012
Yesterday I learnt that we are in fact on day number 116 of this year and not 114 as I had thought. No need to be alarmed though. There hasn’t been any time thieves or the likes simply stealing two days from us. I’ve just mistakenly put down the same
Day 116 | I dream of the day when we’ll have walls
April 25, 2012
Working from everywhere and nowhere, as we do at the moment with byflock, you don’t have a space to make your own. You carry your work with you and pack it into your bag after the day is done. A bit like back packing from one office to the next
Day 115 | What a difference a day makes
April 24, 2012
When you work on something on the side the constant dipping in and out of it can make you wonder how long it will take to actually get there. Then you have a full day like today and yesterday and you remember just how much you can actually get done
Day 114 | An unexpected day off
April 23, 2012
There are pros and cons to freelancing and today was a day of both in the sense that on Friday I was asked to take today off. It’s not great as I’m not looking to take any more holiday at the moment, even if it’s just a day, but on
Slides from my Polish IA Summit talk
April 23, 2012
It was the third (or forth time if you count the BBC) that I did my ‘Design for everyone’ talk. I’ve updated it a little every time but the messaging is more or less the same. There are however more details in this version and it got a feature on
Day 113 | Week 16 summary
April 22, 2012
The highlight of this week has been the trip to Warsaw and the incredible welcoming we got from the organisers and the Polish IA Summit. Being away for a couple of days has meant less work on byflock during that time, but new friends and some time to reflect.
Day 112 | Not every museum makes you cry
April 22, 2012
Today the organisers of the Polish IA Summit took us to the Warsaw Rising museum. It’s not often that a museum moves you to tears, but this did and it reminded me of something important that I want to make happen.
Day 111 | The topic of my talk
April 22, 2012
There is a longer post that I’ve intended to write on the device aspect of my talk. However, that’s for another time. Instead what I wanted to write about in this post was the ‘Designing for everyone’ aspect as it’s related to what we’re working on.
On why you shouldn’t create ‘lite’ mobile experiences
April 21, 2012
The notion that you should create a separate, stripped-down version for ‘the mobile use case’ might be appropriate if such a clean mobile use case existed, but it doesn’t. […] Just because I’m on a small screen doesn’t mean I’m interested in less content or want to do less. […]
Day 110 | Hello Warsaw
April 19, 2012
Around 6pm this evening I arrived in Warsaw, my first time in Poland. Since then I’ve spent the evening over at the Polish IA Summit drinks, which were in the venue you see above, and it’s been absolutely wonderful.
Day 109 | Preparing for Poland
April 18, 2012
Tomorrow I’m off to Poland for the Polish IA Summit where I’ll speak on Friday about designing for a diverse target audience and multiple devices.
Day 108 | A few things out of the way
April 17, 2012
Every now and then the to do list piles up. Having it hang over you makes getting out of bed in the morning that little bit less exciting and, somehow, it makes getting things done a little bit harder too. But when you get on top of it, it’s a
On using the physical world to mock-up interfaces
April 17, 2012
If touch is the future, the physical world is overflowing with inspiration for UI designers who are willing to simultaneously accept the limitations of “pictures under glass,” and think beyond them. From the Co.DESIGN post Using Origami To Mock-Up Ingenious Gestural Interfaces, a post about Juan Sanchez’s Interface Origami Image
On entrepreneurship and going all in
April 16, 2012
As an entrepreneur, you have a decision to make. Ask yourself, “is this my boom?” If your answer is “yes,” then you have a lot of work to do. From the Tech Crunch article Instagram Aftermath: It’s Time For Entrepreneurs To Go All In a good read to give yourself
Day 107 | My ideal summer
April 16, 2012
The other day I was talking to one of my brothers on Skype and we were chatting about plans for the summer. As we talked I started creating a picture in my head of how lovely it would be to have some time off from freelancing during the summer and
Day 106 | Week 15 summary
April 15, 2012
This week saw the day 100 mark pass and with that there’s been quite a bit of reflection. Reflection on how happy I am that I started doing this, how quickly times goes and how I would feel if someone else beat us to one of our ideas and launched
Day 105 | “You really love what you do, don’t you?”
April 14, 2012
Last Monday I came back from a working session over in the cafe and continued working at home for a while before it was dinner time. As I sat working D came over, looked at my sketches and said “You really love what you do, don’t you?”.
Why you should write every day
You probably think you have nothing to write about but once you start it gets hard to stop. Honestly.
Writing is an incredibly important skill at all levels. By writing every day you reflect on things in a different and clearer way and you become better at expressing yourself. If you haven’t tried writing every day, give it a try for 30 days to begin with. I did it every day of 2012. Seth Godin has done it for years and swears by it.