Chasing rainbows
For when you need a headphones moment to block out disturbances, try rainbowhunt.com. Your screen will be filled with a green landscape, and your ears treated to the […]
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The power of context in UX
uxplanet.org has a tidy summary of 7 principles which can be applied to digital service design to influence people’s behavoir.
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New guy
There’s a new guy where I work, he’s been here a month now. After 7 incredible, fun and fulfilling years at @gdsteam I'm leaving to become Chief Digital […]
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Tips for young designers (or young people in any career)
David Airey’s blog has a nice excerpt from small NYC based design firm Sagmeister & Walsh’s answers page. The section on advice for students gives the following tips for young designers, but […]
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Two new old tools – Mindmup and Tricider
Here’s two free online tools which do something you’d usually have to pay for. They’re not new, but they’re new to me.: Brainstorming/mindmapping/cloud thinking Whatever you call it, there’s […]
Read moreRoads that wirelessly charge electric cars
Here’s an ambitious forward thinking project – cables under roads which can generate a field which is picked up by a special coil built into electric cars to charge them. […]
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What time does your website close?
The Local Government Association has complied it’s list of the 10 most bizzare calls councils have received in the past year. While many people can be suprised at […]
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Telling people’s stories by letting them tell it themselves.
So much of work within a communications team is about telling a story – using it to show or reinforce a connection between a person and and someone or something else. […]
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(Very) Honest webdesign feedback.
How can you get really honest feedback about your website or digital project? Richard Littauer realised that when he gets drunk, he gets very honest, and it turns out […]
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Don’t be offended if I’m not offended.
New York designer SwissMiss posted an interesting video about being offended – how the ability to be offended is a relatively recent privilege for the masses, while also questioning what […]
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