Category: inspiration
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Dots – A New Conference About Innovation and Connecting Ideas
I'm happy to be working with the smart folk at Brilliant Noise to curate a brand new conference on innovation which will be a part of the excellent Brighton Digital Festival in September. The festival is one of the most eclectic and
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future
The next Google Firestarters event is happening next week on Tues 15th at 6.15pm, at Google HQ in London. We're theming the event around 'Designing for the Future', and considering how we design for a world filled with sensors, connected devices, wearables
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
This week I spoke at Econsultancy's Future of Digital Marketing conference about Fraggl – you can see the slides here. And here are my favourite Fraggl links from this week: Another good set of slides from John Willshire on his theme of Making
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Making Stuff Happen
"An unshared, negative reality is delusional. A shared, negative reality is disastrous. An unshared, positive reality is short-lived. A shared, positive reality is genius." Shawn Anchor, 'Before Happiness'. HT
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Foolish, Famous or Frozen
I often think that the balance between thinking and doing is so critical and yet is one we often get wrong. Too much of a focus on doing and we don't leave enough time for reflection, learning and application (like the reflection
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: "Each year, Mary Meeker unveils her fascinating Internet Trends presentation. And each year, her insights are inestimable and eagerly awaited. But each year, I have a problem with her slides. As a presentation designer,
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An exceptional and very moving talk from writer Andrew Solomon (above) on how the worst moments in our lives make us who we are An antidote to the hype around the so-called 'sharing economy': The case against sharing “It
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light”. Stanley Kubrick on why life is worth living An interesting talk from Tom Chatfield on the role of games in the workplace and the value of people at play I
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User-centricity
A great view on really putting the user at the centre, from a Google engineer (via Paul Frampton).
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An unusually good native advertising execution from Wired in the form of a Netflix sponsored feature (above) on the state of TV, authored by (friend of ODF) Grant McCracken. For a counterpoint to