Get your own tiny Flickr cards!
A few months ago I posted a picture of my new beautiful tiny little fun sort of business cards and since then I’ve been giving them out and every time I do so people sort of go, “Ooooh! Where can I get...
View ArticleThe visual identity of the Future of Web Apps…
One thing you can say about Ryan Carson is that he knows how to make something look and feel ultra-sharp. You only have to look at the way he packaged up the Future of Web Apps conference to see that....
View ArticleOn Wattson and Electrisave…
Thanks to a fascinating conversation on haddock the other day, I’m now completely obsessed with a brand new class of personal lifestyle gizmos – a class that is very much in sync with the emergent...
View ArticleOn Space Art in Sebastopol…
This is so much fun. Where to start? Okay. So in September last year a few of us went to the O’Reilly FOO Camp. It’s an invitation-only event in Sebastopol in California where everyone’s expected to...
View ArticleMethods for the social archiving of mailing lists…
Imagine you’re on a mailing list that archives URLs that people share in some form, and that this creates indirectly some kind of archive or directory. Imagine that this archive has generally been...
View ArticleOn the IA Summit, Vegas and the Leica D-LUX 3…
Tomorrow I’m going to be talking at the Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas on a panel about Information Architecture beyond the level of the individual site. Myself, Margaret Hanley, Matt...
View ArticleVisualising your last.fm listening…
I’ve been having enormous fun playing with Lastgraph over the last week or so. You tell it your last.fm username and it runs off and plots you a nice colourful graph that visualises your listening...
View ArticleIn praise of boring objects
This piece was originally written for the Things conference in Berlin in May 2014. It was originally posted on Medium. Unlike the moral universe, the long arc of technology curves not towards justice,...
View ArticleAn extremely quick and rough attempt to explain design and designers to...
Warning: This is rough as a bucket of spanners, but I’m trying to summarize a whole bunch of stuff quickly. Feedback is appreciated. Work in progress etc. Watching someone collide with some of the...
View ArticleThe Shape of Things
This is a transcript of a talk I gave at Webstock in New Zealand in February 2016, lightly edited to remove many terrible jokes. For more information about Webstock, New Zealand, the artwork in this...
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