Category: inspiration
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
A bit late due to travel but here are my favourite links from this past week, curated by Fraggl: Nicely put: The great fragmentation or why we're all weirdos now This makes sense - the future of passwords is no passwords One of the fascinating Superflux projects talked about at this week's Firestarters by Anab Jain: Open Informant Nice anti-road rage work here (above)…
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future – The Event
Wednesday night saw the great and the good of UK planning come together for our twelfth (twelfth!) Google Firestarters event, themed around ‘Designing for the Future’, and we had three amazing speakers who gave three excellent provocations. Anab Jain, TED fellow, founder of Superflux, lecturer at the Royal College of Art (and whose work has…
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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 rapidly growing festivals of ideas in Europe (the 2013 festival had an audience of over 41,000…
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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 and embedded internet. The only thing we can say for sure is that…
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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 Things People Want. And here's Tim Leake with an interesting take on client/agency relationships and…
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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 time that Joel at Pinterest talked about). Conversely over-thinking everything can lead to…
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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, I find them rough and busy. To the point it makes them hard…
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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 turns out the Internet, like every other technology, doesn’t trend toward good or…
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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 enjoyed this article on myths about Apple design, from an ex Apple designer.…