Category: Innovation & business

So yeh, you might have read, Tinker closed. Unlike people who leave large corporate jobs and write a final farewell blogpost, I’m at loss for what would be appropriate to say here seeing as I co-founded the thing. I like What Jeff Bezos said: ” I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that,… Continue reading Minimizing regrets & new beginnings

Sometimes feels like this. Rendez-vous (Claude Lelouch 1976) – kewego Itinéraire Bd Périphérique · Avenue Foch · Place Charles-de-Gaulle · Av des Champs-Elysées · Place de la Concorde · Quai des Tuileries · Place du Carrousel · Rue de Rohan · Avenue de l’Opéra · Place de l’Opéra · Rue Halévy · Rue de la… Continue reading Driving a business

(Ok so this particular post is inspired by the fact that we now have a *gulp* collective meeting room on our floor.) I am starting to hate post-its. Mostly because they require a wall to stick them on or a flipchart, a whiteboard and a collection of otherwise horrible office furniture to make post-its work… Continue reading Ikea and coffee: Thoughts on innovation hubs

A bit of an update if you don’t follow my company’s blog. We’ve rebranded our UK studio to Tinker with a new url, new logo, corporate colours and everything ( for official release check out the official blog post) which was the result of more than a year’s worth of work in figuring out exactly… Continue reading Tinker: an exercise in branding.

I realised I don’t write very often about my day job here, perhaps because this feels like a different space that I can use to talk about the meta-job of running a company. Last year, I wrote about running a business but I’m very interested in the dynamics of running a design studio at the… Continue reading Running a studio (comment 2)

It’s always scary and entertaining when a concept that comes from programming techniques kindof made me think of the way I run my company. Instead, most of a program’s overall functionality is coded into a single “all-knowing” object, which maintains most of the information about the entire program and provides most of the methods for… Continue reading Running a studio (comment 1)

Celebrating nearly 2 years as the CEO of a small and dynamic interaction design company I thought I’d collate some thoughts on starting up your own company in interaction design as this be useful for someone out there. – SHOW ME THE MONEY Money is important. When you start your own company, (i’m talking normal… Continue reading Things I need to remind myself of