Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎻🎶 | Continue reading
I tried watching a classic Western this weekend, How The West Was Won. I did not make it far. Let’s just say that in the first few minutes, the Spencer Tracy voiceover that accompanies the sweeping vistas sets out an attitude toward the indigenous population that would not fly to … | Continue reading
We use metaphors all the time. To quote George Lakoff, we live by them. We use analogies some of the time. They’re particularly useful when we’re wrapping our heads around something new. By comparing something novel to something familiar, we can make a shortcut to comprehension, … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Fiddletastic Sunday session 🎻🎻🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Out with the Clearleft crew in a pub having a retro games night… Them: “Want to play Tekken? Or is it Tekken 2?” Me: “As long it stars Liam Neeson, that’s all that matters!” | Continue reading
I am positively giddy with excitement to tell you about some more speakers you can look forward to at UX London 2023: Stacey Mendez, Product and Experience Designer, Hannah Smith, Director of Operations at the Green Web Foundation, Vitaly Friedman, Creative Lead at Smashing Maga … | Continue reading
Reading Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. | Continue reading
Spent the weekend in Belfast workshopping bouzouki and mandolin with Cathal Ó Curráin — thoroughly enjoyable! | Continue reading
Checked in at The Sunflower. One last session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The John Hewitt. Next session! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Duke of York. Flutetastic session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Established Coffee. Birthday breakfast — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Deer’s Head. Last session of the night (with Sorscha Costello and Mary McNamarra) — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The John Hewitt. Second session of the evening — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Duke of York. First session of the festival — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Thursday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎶🎻🎻🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Reading Understanding Privacy by Heather Burns. | Continue reading
I documented a weird bug with web audio on iOS a while back: On some pages of The Session, as well as the audio player for tunes (using the Web Audio API) there are also embedded YouTube videos (using the video element). Press play on the audio player; no sound. Press play on t … | Continue reading
If you’re a western white guy like me, you’re playing life on its easiest setting. If you’re also a designer, then you should get a ticket to UX London. You can probably get work to pay for it. Share this list of reasons to attend with your boss if you have to. If, on the other h … | Continue reading
Looking forward to hearing from both @cassiecodes@front-end.social and @philhawksworth@indieweb.social at Monday’s geeky gathering here in Brighton: https://www.storyblok.com/ev/stories-on-the-road-uk-23#brighton-%C2%B7-february-27th | Continue reading
I’ve been redesigning UX London. I don’t mean the website. I mean the event itself. Don’t worry, it’s nothing too radical. It’s not like we’re changing the focus of the event, which remains a nerdfest for all things design-related. But there are plenty of other opportunities for … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon session 🎻🎶🎻 | Continue reading
“Chatbot” is such an interesting portmanteau: “chat” from the French for cat, and “bot”, a contraction of the word “bottom”. | Continue reading
This Is My Jam was a lovely website. Created by Hannah and Matt in 2011, it ran until 2015, at which point they had to shut it down. But they made sure to shut it down with care and consideration. In many ways, This Is My Jam was the antithesis of the prevailing Silicon Valley mi … | Continue reading
The success of a search engine depends on two interrelated things—accuracy and trust. I’m flabbergasted that Google and Bing are perfectly willing to squander their reserves of both. | Continue reading
Push notifications are finally arriving on iOS—hallelujah! Like I said last year, this is my number one wish for the iPhone, though not because I personally ever plan to use the feature: When I’m evangelising the benefits of building on the open web instead of making separate i … | Continue reading
Brightonians! Come and join me and @cassiecodes@front-end.social for an evening of (free!) pizza, drinks, and talks on Monday, February 27th: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/stories-on-the-road | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Sessioning — with Jessica | Continue reading
I’ve already written about how much I enjoyed hosting Leading Design San Francisco last week. All the speakers were terrific. Lola’s talk was particularly …um, interesting: In this talk, Lola will share her adventures in the world of blockchain, the hostility she experienced in … | Continue reading
Please put your fingers on the desk in front of you and move them up and down rapidly in the manner of a snare drum… I’m very happy to announce the first four speakers for UX London 2023: Imran Afzal, Principal Designer at Co-op Digital, Vimla Appadoo, Head of Experience at Cult … | Continue reading
I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a fan of initialisms and acronyms. They can be exclusionary. It bothers me doubly when everyone is talking about AI. First of all, the term is so vague as to be meaningless. Sometimes—though rarely—AI refers to general artificial intelligence. S … | Continue reading
Checked in at Balboa Park Fountain. Wandering around Balboa Park on a Saturday — with Jessica, Jeb | Continue reading
Ben wrote a post a little while back about maybe organasing his home page differently. It’s currently a stream. That prompted Om to ask is “stream” as a design paradigm over? Mind you, he’s not talking about personal websites: Across the web, one can see “streams” losing their … | Continue reading
I’ve spent the last few days in San Francisco where I was hosting Leading Design. It was excellent. Rebecca did an absolutley amazing job with the curation, and the Clearleft delivered a terrific event, as always. I’m continually amazed by the way such a relatively small agency c … | Continue reading
In pastoral agriculture, the abbreviation AI doesn’t stand for Artificial Intelligence. In that farming context, a tool like ChatGPT is a good demonstration of AI. | Continue reading
Checked in at SFJazz Center. Day two of Leading Design. | Continue reading
Checked in at SFJazz Center. Hosting Leading Design. | Continue reading
Watching my friend Farai deliver a precision barrage of truth bombs. #LeadingDesign | Continue reading
Good morning, San Francisco! | Continue reading
On safari outside San Diego. 🦏 | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
I met Archie the giant squid, Darwin’s tortoise, and many, many other fine specimens thanks to the lovely folks at the Natural History Museum! 🦑 🐢 | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶🎻 | Continue reading