Author Archive
Reboxing videos
12 September 2008
We need reboxing videos to show us how to get our tech toys back in their boxes.
Estimated date of birth — an interaction design pattern
9 September 2008
How to avoid asking people for their date of birth when you don’t need it but still gain enough data to be able to produce meaningful age segmentations.
Suttonboro version 1.1
21 August 2008
Lessons learned from the first three days running my Twitter-based Sutton news digest.
Hack your world
16 August 2008
On the web, in the streets and even in the municipal flowerbeds, people are taking design into their own hands.
Positive citizens or trainee consumers?
24 July 2008
Sutton youths are being given discount cards for high street shops if they stay out of trouble. What does this really teach them?
The Stepford Wives of Worcester Park
19 June 2008
Children of social housing tenants at The Hamptons in Worcester Park have been given a 9pm curfew. Fine by us, say the parents.
Westminster City Council privatises street sign design
8 April 2008
A London council suddenly decides that the public needs protection from “counterfeit” souvenir sellers so it buys the copyright to its street sign design that hasn’t been enforced for 40 years and threatens “pirates” with heavy fines.
The fallacies of summary-only RSS feeds
4 April 2008
Please don’t tease. Put your full article texts in your RSS feed and make everyone’s life a whole lot easier.