Design, citizenship and the city
11 October 2008
You want a website. He wants to make a movie. Prepare to be disappointed.
11 October 2008
You’re trying to run a business. He’s trying to find himself. It’s going to end in tears — and not his.
11 October 2008
You want a website? He can help you with that. And with your PC. And your broadband. And your phone.
11 October 2008
Fruit. Veg. Web design. The game’s the same: Pile it high and sell it cheap.
29 September 2008
How to fix the link colours, clock/calendar and text size on Sutton Council’s website with a Greasemonkey user script.
27 September 2008
How Sutton Council have broken all the links to their new website and how they can prevent this linkrot in future by using permalinks.
22 September 2008
Merton Council are running a consultation called moreMorden until 10 October 2008 on outline proposals for regenerating Morden town centre. What follows is my summary of the main consultation document (PDF) and its supporting fact sheet (PDF). I don’t work for the council, so these are just my words, not my ideas.
Members of the public [...]
20 September 2008
While this won’t be news to some, most people still don’t know that you can use the standard Google search box as a sophisticated calculator and unit conversion tool. So if you type:
2 * 3
into the search box, you’ll get 6. Pretty handy, but nothing you couldn’t do easily with your desktop or computer calculator.
Where [...]
17 September 2008
In which we explore the parsimony principle in design with reference to two horribly over-engineered ideas: the Segway personal transporter and ebook readers.
12 September 2008
Of the 21 features on my phone, I use just five. Can’t someone make a phone without all the rest?