I’m sat in the darkest room since the LIFT conference days and I think the first time I’ve spoken at a proper web conference in some years. It’s kind of weird. Lots of talks about front end development techniques I have never heard of which I guess is a sign I’m hanging out with back… Continue reading Web Directions 2013
Pour boxer, il faut avoir faim: my thoughts on design for design students
Written for an exhibition put on by Middlesex University as part of London Design Festival. I graduated from a McSc in Industrial Design 2004 and here’s what I wish they’d told me. You won’t design this way ever again. If you work for someone else, you will spend 100% of your time designing 10% of… Continue reading Pour boxer, il faut avoir faim: my thoughts on design for design students
Against the culture of “meh” and the internet of things.
Two weeks ago I nearly lost my shit. Gartner, a trends research group (or science fiction that costs a lot more to subscribe to) published their yearly Hype Cycle Chart, describing the Internet of Things (which they’ve only started adding to their chart in 2010 after “mesh networks” was doing rather well) as being “more… Continue reading Against the culture of “meh” and the internet of things.
August 28th, 1963.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of… Continue reading August 28th, 1963.
Creativity & Collaboration in the 20th century.
I gave a talk a few weeks ago at Creat_ED and talked about entrepreneurism, fearlessness but really, I suppose I was talking about collaboration in hindsight. I’m reading Prague: Capital of 20th Century Surrealism and what’s immediately obvious is that artists were (maybe still are, I’d have to ask James about that) much better at… Continue reading Creativity & Collaboration in the 20th century.
What the UK government should think about the Internet of Things.
I was invited to attend the Digital Policy Alliance Internet of Things scoping meeting at the Houses of Parliament last month and put my hand up to try to help write up some part of a possible report to MPs about the Internet of Things. Here are some loose notes I wrote down on 2… Continue reading What the UK government should think about the Internet of Things.
What I’m up to (no not weeknotes)
It’s always nice to let people know what you’re working on right? Otherwise people will think I’m spending my days on Twitter scanning the #iot hashtag (ok, I do that too). I’m the founder of Good Night Lamp, a family of internet-connected lamps. We’re in the long ramp up towards good partnerships to kick off… Continue reading What I’m up to (no not weeknotes)
This is Water
An excellent commencement speech on compassion and forgetting about self-centered thinking.
Fun fun fun
Thanks to Mark Littlewood for this one. Very funny if it wasn’t so true.
Map of Internet of Things companies in the UK & Europe
I was invited at the Houses of Parliament to come and speak about the bottom-up internet of things community and as one of the only people below the age of 40, the only woman speaker and the only one not involved in a multi-billion pound organisation, it was easy to stand out. I’m very grateful… Continue reading Map of Internet of Things companies in the UK & Europe