It’s Friday evening and I’m about to go meet an old colleague for a drink. I’m thrilled it’s the weekend. The lie ins, our morning runs, the long breakfasts with the day’s first coffee – that’s something I look forward to all week. But, I’m also really excited about working
If you’re a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day. If you’re an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals,
Every product and service that we use exist because someone decided they were going to do it. Every company that we work for has started as an idea and then taken a physical form when a decision was made to make it happen.
Yesterday on the train back from Manchester I told my BBC colleague about my commitment to blog every day during 2012 about this. He asked the question I asked myself when I decided to write something every day – Won’t it take away from doing the actual work itself?
We believe that talking about the future is the most important thing that people do, even though the future, by its nature, is unknowable. We invent the future through our actions and change it constantly. We can never know it fully but we can always be better prepared for what
Doing the research and populating the deck it’s not a linear process, and I didn’t intend it to be. Even when I’m concentrating on one part I’ll fall over an article, find a nice example, or get an idea, and just as much as my thoughts jump from one to
Yesterday I mentioned that the go ahead for a potential next phase of the idea I’m currently exploring hangs on the outcome of the research I’m working on. Something similar exists already and that is scary for two reasons.
[youtube id=”lNFNOSzik14″ width=”475″] Nicely done video introducing the book and talking about being more conscious of the information we consume. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/3383629917
It’s been a full on day today as I’ve continued my research and getting more specific on the different points that I’m looking at. It’s lovely to work on my own thing, but I’ve also had my first taste of how the excitement can be all the way up there
I’ve been working away and starting to populate my ‘Market & competitors analysis’ deck. I’m not going to deny it. It’s really exciting to actually start getting my hands dirty and really dig into what I’ve been wanting to do so for long.
A while back I stumbled over this project – Ballons of Bhutan done by Jonahtan Harris. He spent two weeks there exploring what happiness really mean to the people living there and the result is, as the site describes it, “a [wonderful] portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom”.
A great user experience is rooted in your attention to detail Apple’s iOS Human Interface Guidelines Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/funch/4679422945
Today I’ve started getting organised for the next weeks of research. If all goes well this research will be part of more official presentations so today I’ve started setting up keynote templates.
The start of this week has been about planning ahead, making a bit of a schedule, putting dates in the dairy and starting to try out some kind of routine. Over the next weeks I’ll be heads down doing research.
A smart idea in one city can make any city smarter Ad in Wired for The Smarter City, a video based site talking about the challenges cities face and how we can connect them and their different systems to make them smarter Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/ivanclow/4260762246
Over the years I’ve worked with some great people. People I’d love to work with again, for their brilliance and high standard of work. For being genuinely lovely people and because we work really well together.
Today was the first day back in the office after the Christmas break here in the UK and that meant the start of prioritising and finding the right balance for me between work and life outside of work.
Late last summer .net Magazine asked me if I’d like to write an opinion piece for them and I happily said yes. Today my piece was published.
Forget the building for a while. Focus totally on what people will be doing in the spaces and places you are designing – next year, in five years, in 20. -Sunand Prasad, architect, and other top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration in this The Guardian article Image source:
Embarking on a new journey is a bit like sailing in an archipelago. You know some of the islands you want to visit and you’re probably pretty excited about them. Some may seem less interesting or perhaps even pointless to visit and sailing to some may even be a bit