Month: January 2018
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UX for Repetitive, Bored or Urgent
This is by no means a new idea (in fact it's rather old in mobile terms) but is still a useful way to categorise user tasks, particularly on mobile. Google have previously split users into three types of user behaviour: repetitive now, bored now, and urgent now… 'The “repetitive now” user is someone checking for the same…
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Agile Resourcing at ING
In the book I talk a lot about how agile thinking and principles (and not just Agile doing) can be applied in the service of supporting fundamental change in the organisation. To enable a far more responsive, customer-centric way of working. To enable a shift away from the entrenched processes and practices that are holding…
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Blockchain and the Perez Technological Surge Cycle
In amongst all the Bitcoin hype there was a thought-provoking question posed in a well-shared post published just before Christmas by Kai Stinchcombe, founder of a Silicon Valley financial services startup, about whether there was actually any legitimate use at all for Blockchain technology: ‘Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going…
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Democratising AI Capability
I don't claim to be an expert on AI but as someone who works in the 'digital industry' (whatever that means now) I think its important to keep track of notable shifts in an area that has become fast-moving and of huge potential significance. AI is surely one of the most important S-curves around, and…
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Beating Burnout
I have to admit to being terrible at creating and protecting space for myself in amongst the every day work schedule. It's one of the things I regularly fail at. So there was lots to take from this episode of the EatSleepWorkRepeat podcast (from friend of ODF Bruce Daisley). There were a couple of things…
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Post of the Month – December 2017 – The Winner
Thanks for taking part in this month's vote. Happy to say that the winner is Tom Roach's post on how Most Marketing is Bad Because it Ignores the Most Basic Data. Well done Tom. You join the hall of fame. Do bookmark your good reads for next month's nominations.
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Post of the Month – December 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Most Marketing is Bad Because it Ignores the Most Basic Data by Tom Roach Have we Lost the Ability to Make What we Make Interesting? by Shai Idelson Working Between the US and the UK by WIll Critchlow What are Creative Strategy Craft Skills? by David Carr Bitcoin's…
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Post of the Month – December 2017 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. The first vote of 2018, but nominations please covering posts written over the past month. You can nominate direct or via the comments below, and as soon as I have enough I'll pop them up for a vote. As usual I have a short…