An online notebook
Ten reflections on design leadership⬈ by Martin Wright as he departs TPX Impact. # Gavin Beckett is moving on from Placecube to Public Digital, which is nice for him, but for us means he has written a thought provoking set of reflections⬈. # Your user needs are crap! (And so were mine.) Ten ways to … Keep reading
Am playing around a bit with Feedland, Dave Winer’s newish RSS aggregating thing. I like how it is all public, so anyone can see the feeds I subscribe to and what is in them. Am enjoying the desktop app feel of NetNewsWire for now, so don’t think I will be switching, but it’s fun to … Keep reading
Lovely bit of LocalGov blogging: Nature’s Genius: Service Innovation through Biomimicry. This is a great story, about the wonder that was Yahoo Pipes, beautifully told… and now I am really interested in Retool, so I guess it did its job (tech marketers, take note)! Working as a community to iterate the task list pattern: We … Keep reading
Not been looking forward to today really. I have to go to see a foot specialist about an ulcerated wound on the balls of my right foot. It’ll be good to start getting it sorted, but it involves going somewhere I have never been before, not sure about parking etc, and the whole thing fills … Keep reading
Systems analysis at the ‘front end’ of service design can help us to better understand complex social problems and identify opportunities to respond more effectively and profoundly. Equally, systems thinking provides tools and mindsets to understand the power structures and ‘system immune responses’ which so often kill new solutions before they get off the ground. … Keep reading