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A soul-sucking effort in futility
Although this article in the Pastry Box project by Greg Hoy, Differentiate or Die is about how tough 2014 has been for some design agencies, and how this tends to be cyclical, the bit that struck a note was why corporations reach for the silver bullet of external design agencies…and wondering if it works?
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Design Men
From playboy 1961 (53 years ago) George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom, sitting on chairs that still look more like the future than anything I see in the shops today. Also is this what designers are supposed to look like? I wonder where Ray Eames is?
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Denkarbeit
I wish I had run more workshops at Barclays, as its a great way to get inside the teams head, and where their thinking is. These are my notes from a workshop I ran in January 2014. It is also just to enjoy ‘thinking work’. Denkarbeit. The team spend so much time creating material I…
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ABC Design Info graphics
Thinking about info graphics, one of my criticisms has been that we don’t spend enough time thinking about the organisation of the information in our finished design. We tend to place it all down in one go. This often leads to congested designs that aren’t easy to scan or navigate. I came across this graphic…
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Vodafone M2M
The Vodafone M2M portal created one access point for the entire life cycle of their M2M SIMs. From supply, through instillation to status monitoring during usage. Vodafone have changed their approach to developing the M2M Portal so that it is now centred on user needs rather than on functional requirements. We helped the Business Products Team…
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Change your paradigm…
Chipping away slowly at the M2M coal face, we are finally going to have a first draft of most of the wire frames after two weeks. Pretty good going as three weeks ago no designer in the office new anything about the portal. One personal concern is have we had enough time to question the…
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Just trying to get the job done
Well as we start another ‘massive’ project and the pressure mounts, I hope we have all the safeguards and checks and balances in place, so the jobs a breeze and we all enjoy it. There is alot of romanticism in design, and thats why I love it, but it also generates an idea that projects…
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The curse of the perfect delivery…
Today, I committed the classic Seren mistake all over again. It happened on ITV when we delivered a perfect billion page analysis, it happened when I worked all weekend to deliver the perfect user journeys storyboards only for the client to change the names into Chinese to make the vendor laugh, I tried to deliver…
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Designing application icons for Vodafone Business Services
Vodafone has a wide range of iconography used across their various platforms from VOIP phones with their simple dot matrix LCD displays, to their website and mobile devices and back to Mobile Wi-Fi’s some of which have a simple monochrome screen. Vodafone had developed a really rich visual style. I conducted an audit and then provided…
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Go Faster
The aesthetics of car racing has always been mixed up with the thrill of speed. I regularly browse with great pleasure Customised: Art Inspired by Hot Rods, Low Riders and American Car Culture. The front cover featuring Roadrunner by Craig McDean. If you ever by a book on the strength of a cover alone this is…
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