My little boy is six months old tomorrow. I’ve been thinking a lot, since he’s been around, about what the world looks like to him now, what it might be like in the future, and trying to understand how his little brain develops and turns him into a real little person (incredibly quickly, as it [...]

Here is a new phone we got the other day. It’s our landline phone. Pretty cute huh? It’s called the Aqua by BT. Don’t buy it. I paid about £100 for a set of these phones. They are going to cost me a lot more than that in no time.
Here’s the thing. How do you [...]

I was talking to someone recently about doing some work with them. They said ‘can you send me some examples of documentation you’ve done lately’ - they wanted this to check that I could do what I said I could. Fair enough. Except, aside from the fact that all the documentation I’ve done lately is [...]

I haven’t quite been able to watch this myself yet, but here is a video that someone took at the Interesting08 conference last weekend. I spoke about the development of the human brain and the importance of social interaction for babies. It was an excellent day - makes me feel only slightly better about missing [...]

It’s been almost a year now that I’ve been doing predominantly ‘guerrilla’ design research. For me, this means testing in the field with a minimum of time, budget and fuss so that this kind of activity and the insight it provides is available to pretty much any client/budget/timeframe.
One of the first challenges for guerrilla design [...]

Yes, I’ve seen the Sex In the City Movie, I’ll admit it. Either the rest of the UX community hasn’t seen it yet or we’re all just ignoring the fabulous user experience moment that Carrie has with the iPhone. For those who haven’t seen it, she is handed the iPhone (not hers) at a time [...]

Fruitful Seminars: Making Social Tools Ubiquitous
But what do you do if you don’t get the level of engagement you’d like? And how do you progress from a small-scale pilot to widespread adoption? The first ’social’ seminar hosted by Fruitful Seminars with Suw Charman-Anderson.
(tags: fruitfulseminars socialnetworks)

Jeff Jarvis: Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine | Media | The Guardian
Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter… Summize, and other social-media services… for news catchwords such as “earthquake” and “evacuation”…
(tags: twitter socialsoftware ambientintimacy)

I had to share with you this particularly appalling piece of email marketing that hit my inbox the other day. The back story is that somehow I had come across a £25 voucher to use at VirginWines - I went and had a look at the site to see if it was something I was [...]

Mental Models workshop with Indi Young | Clearleft
I’m looking forward to going along to Indi’s workshop - finally! Have been meaning to catch this one for ages. If you can get to Brighton for this it will be well worth your time.
(tags: training workshop indiyoung mentalmodels)