I hadn’t noticed that Canva had bought Affinity and made it free. How long it will stay that way, who knows, but seems a good deal to grab for the meantime.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Bringing a knackered laptop back to life with CloudReady
As part of the fun and games that is homeschooling, my daughter started off begging and borrowing computer time from me and her mum. It wasn’t ideal so I casted around for a better solution, so she could have her…
LINK: “The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995”
…the world’s oldest blockchain predates Bitcoin by 13 years and it’s been hiding in plain sight, printed weekly in the classified section of one of the world’s most widely circulated newspapers: The New York Times. Original:
LINK: “All change is system change”
All change is system change — to say otherwise is to ignore a fundamental truth about organisations being living breathing human systems. Original:
LINK: “Full stack decision making”
I know that many organisations are still designed around that hierarchy but if your goal is to end up with an organisation that is less silo’d at the same time as being more collaborative, adaptive and flexible it seems sensible…
LINK: “How to guarantee an enterprise project failure. The Anchorage payroll example”
The Anchorage payroll project, now in its seventh year and with costs ballooning from a projected $10 million to over $80 million provides a solid example of how to guarantee an enterprise project failure. Original:
LINK: “Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write”
Bezos’ letters make splendid material for a Business School course on Strategy and Communication. A caveat applies, however. Most of the strategies and practices advocated by Amazon’s founder have broad applicability, but a central mystery remains: Bezos himself, his combination…
LINK: “Service design at NHS Digital”
user’s point of view – from the very beginning of how users become aware the service exists, to the very end of them leaving it. But what makes service design different from just thinking about the user journey, is also…
LINK: “What is ‘commissioning’?”
Much of the value of commissioning, I believe, is that it is an emerging field — not yet fully formed and devoid of inspiration. Yet there is much commissioning practice and activity out there. Original:
LINK: “How to Build Your Own “Spotify Model””
At the end of the day, use the Spotify model as an inspiration for what’s possible when you spend time and attention developing your own operating system — not as a model for what your own system may end up looking like.…