I just came back from CES (thanks to Here for flying me over to see their work, I’ll write about that soon too) and wanted to write down some thoughts I’ve been having over the past few months which crystallised during this trip. I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow in Oslo at an event organised… Continue reading The end of design
So you want an internet of things strategy?
I’ve been giving talks and having lots of meetings with executives across a number of different industries who are interested in the internet of things and aren’t quite sure what to do. Based on the past ten years of my work around this topic, here are some high-level recommendations. Assumptions: chances are you have a… Continue reading So you want an internet of things strategy?
Five minutes on smart cities
Introduction given at ESOF16 on July 25th in Manchester. I’ve been working with Nominet R&D for the past year looking at the progress of over 140 global smart city projects and I wanted to take advantage of my five minutes here to talk talk about what I see are the future challenges of smart cities… Continue reading Five minutes on smart cities
Open letter to AIGA
Hello! Sorry for reaching out unexpectedly, but I’d like to bring something to your attention. I am not a member of AIGA but a professional product and interaction designer and I have been working for over 10 years under designswarm.com as both my company’s URL, digital presence on social media of all sorts, talks internationally, works displayed… Continue reading Open letter to AIGA
Made Near You: making local food businesses shareable & transparent
So to conclude (rather dramatically) last week, here are some notes on what I ended up showcasing at the end of the Mozilla Open IOT Design Sprint in Anstruther, Scotland. Made Near You (MaNY) is a service which allows food producers who want to encourage local communities and tourists to eat and buy local. A form… Continue reading Made Near You: making local food businesses shareable & transparent
Rage against the Machine
Rage against the Machine I just spent the week in Scotland hanging out with Europeans living abroad, British people living across the whole of the UK, Americans living across Europe. Those are ‘my people’ in a life I’ve been priviledged to live since I moved to London for love in 2007. Even when the love ended,… Continue reading Rage against the Machine
Day 3 of Mozilla OpenIOT DesignSprint
Not a particularly productive day (I may be nursing a cold) today but lots of thinking about what we know, what we don’t know and what we choose to ignore. It turns out for example that there isn’t any regulation on what distance is required for you to be able to use the term ‘local’on… Continue reading Day 3 of Mozilla OpenIOT DesignSprint
Day 2 of Mozilla Open IOT Design Sprint: Farmnet
I’m in Anstruther (a small fishing village in Fife, Scotland) this week taking part in the second Mozilla Open IOT Studio design sprint. The whole week is organised by Michelle Thorne, the studio director and Jon Rogers who lives in the area. We’re working from an old church adjacent to a graveyard and there’s 40 of… Continue reading Day 2 of Mozilla Open IOT Design Sprint: Farmnet
On the potential
(Talk given on March 11th in India at the BusinessWorld IOT Expo.) I’ve had a lot of friends join large organisations as employees. One of the reasons they cite is often ‘there’s so much potential’ because the brand / business is large, important or global. I always grin. Since the world of business and technology… Continue reading On the potential
Anybody Home? Where did design dissapear off to?
Here is the transcript for my talk at IXDA in Helsinki on March 2nd. Il faut confronter les idées vagues avec des images claires. – Jean-Luc Godard I want to talk about the areas that were abandoned by design and designers and why they are worth rediscovering. Hello. On good days I describe myself an… Continue reading Anybody Home? Where did design dissapear off to?