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User centred design, the GDS way.

User centred design, the GDS way.

Posted on 28 December 201828 December 2018

I was recently in Brighton where the city council hosted a Government Digital Service session on user centered design. Here are things I found most interesting.

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Old closed tube stations to become bars & more

Posted on 31 March 2011

Annie Mole’s Going Underground Blog reports that a consortium of finance, engineering, marketing and health & safety companies have been brought together byAjit Chambers fromThe Old London Underground Company to put […]

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Great new blog: thepeopleonthetube

Posted on 9 February 20119 February 2011

I found a great new blog today: thepeopleonthetube.wordpress.com. It highlights one of the things I miss about working/travelling/living in London – the diversity of people. From amazing clothes to knelling face […]

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Wordsworth on the tube

Posted on 8 June 2009

This morning I was lucky enough to sit opposite a poem by William Wordsworth, titled “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge”. It was part of the Poems on the Underground […]

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Name that tube and flag that city.

Posted on 30 April 2009

Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. […]

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Posted in From the internet, London, Odd, Other, Video, WebsitesTagged cities, games, map, tube, worldLeave a Comment on Name that tube and flag that city.

3328 photos, 2 minutes of video, 1 song.

Posted on 10 March 2009

This is a great video, i know I take a lot of pictures but the work that went into this is astonishing. London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from […]

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Unusual politeness

Posted on 6 November 2008

This morning something strange happened. On a crowded Northern Line train a seat was left empty. the three men standing over it were all too polite to even […]

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Posted in London, OddTagged Angel, Northern Line, Old Street, seat, tube1 Comment on Unusual politeness

Odd maps, making food and emergency drinks

Posted on 5 September 2008

This is a post I started writing a month ago but things have been busy recently. Better late than never… There’s been quite a few sites and features […]

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A captive audience

Posted on 8 July 2008

Following that post on HD sunglasses here’s one on some new advertising to hit London’s tube. Last October TFL started trailing some new video projection adverts on the […]

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A very specific emergency

Posted on 2 July 2008

I wonder what kind of emergency they expect at Highbury and Islington which would demand an emergency cupboard. Who knows. It would certainly make a good caption competition.

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