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March 2, 2012, via Post

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A portrait of our office building, Spike Island

A portrait of our office building, Spike Island, where One Big Field calls home [upstairs in Unit 63]. Have great fondness for the place and this slideshow goes some way to capturing the place. This audio slideshow was created by Nick Hand for Spike Island. [Reference].

December 9, 2011, via Post

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Reasons why My Dad is Awesome: Dad’s got style

If you knew my Dad, everyone would agree that Dad was a snappy dresser. I guess he was lucky in some way as he was in his 20s and 30s across the 1950s & 60s, an architect in London. But even then he stood out. One of Dad’s partners, Ray, rece…

How to run a requirements-capturing workshop [presentation available]

Last week, I spoke at the UX Bristol conference on how to run workshops to capture requirements, from a user-centred approach. The presentation is based on my approach to running workshops…

March 11, 2011, via Post

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Most active brands on Facebook in the UK

Volkswagon, BMI & HTC UK coming in top three brands on Facebook in the UK.

What is good design?

Last week I was invited to present at the BBC on Good Design, as part of Anchor’s BBC Academy talks. Here’s my presentation from the day

February 7, 2011, via Post

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LAN parties

Shot of the largest LAN party to date, the 2004 DreamHack LAN Party. Many, many folks all connected up…

November 24, 2010, via Post

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Back from Spike Island, presenting to rest of orgs about what…

Back from Spike Island, presenting to rest of orgs about what we’ve (spike design) all been up to. And who everyone is.

Great to hear what everyone does.

November 23, 2010, via Post

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X2 observable people in an Internet cafe and which website are…

X2 observable people in an Internet cafe and which website are they both using? Facebook. Coincidence? Too small a sample to be even ancedotal? Or just probable…

November 21, 2010, via Post

After a wkend of building fence (see pic) with my dad, I’m…

After a wkend of building fence (see pic) with my dad, I’m now in a bar. About to listen to jazz, with Rach, Todd, Lucy et al.

Wonder how many other fence builders are listening to jazz this eve’…

November 16, 2010, via Post

How many people aren’t on the internet in the UK?

“There are 9.2 million adults in the UK who have never used the internet – the combined size of the entire population of our five biggest cities.