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Dashboards for Pretending
I’ve been doing a bit of work around dashboards at Rattle. Despite the interest in dashboards there’s precious little in the way of analysis of existing dashboards, for example car dashboards and how...
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Malcolm Gladwell has a wonderful article on the art of pitching and in particular the art of pitching as practised by the Popeil and Morris clan in the US in the mid-late 20th Century and epitomised by...
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We Watch
One of the things we’re doing at Rattle are once a month ‘hackdays’. We’re doing hackdays to rapid prototype ideas we have, learn new technologies and have some fun. Previous hackdays have produced...
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“To create successful animation, you must understand why an object moves before you can figure out how it should move. Character animation isn’t the fact that an object looks like a character or has a...
View ArticleAs we pedal more how might cities change?
I did a talk at Interesting North back in November 2010 on my favourite two subjects; cities and bikes. Here it is: James Boardwell from Interesting North on Vimeo.
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Chromaroma is made for Skiing Or, Design Around Existing Behaviours
I like the idea of Chromaroma. I don’t live in London, so don’t really have much use for it practically. Chromaroma tries to facilitate a game-like behaviour on traveling from one part of London to...
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Cause and Effect Storytelling
A diagram of cause and effect where the concept of risk is implicit; a lovely way to sell investments as it brings out the game and sense of play. It would be interesting to draw out news events in a...
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Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC
This post is about a strand of work I’ve been doing at Rattle which attempts to tell stories about the BBC from the data mined in subtitles and is to compliment the post written by BBC R&D “From...
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Them that can, do
As of today I’m going to be lecturing in Design part-time at Hallam University in Sheffield. It’s two days a week of something that I tasted last year as an associate lecturer and I enjoyed. There are...
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Built
New places open your eyes. I went to Bethnal Green and this is what I saw. Mostly big stuff, monsters.
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Busy Book
My youngest son, who is 6, said to me, “I want to show you my Busy Book”. “What’s your Busy Book?” I said. “It’s for half work and half not. I’ve got some drawings in there and some maths.” I love the...
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Weeknote 11.02.22
The management team at Probation Digital decided to embrace OKRs this last few weeks as a means to bridge the gap between some log term goals and sprint goals. Super pleased we’ve decided to do this...
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Weeknote 18.02.22
A week mostly spent trying to figure out how to stop teams needing to use arcane processes (support, data protection and information assurance things) that are from a different IT based era. And also...
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Weeknote 25.02.22
This last week was marked by the first meeting of all the Folksy team IRL since 2019. The team have grown to four full-time and two part-time staff and this week most of them met up to discuss...
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Weeknote 28.02.22
A view over to Baslow and the Hope Valley from Hollow Meadow whilst out on my bike on Sunday. It seems ridiculous that I struggle to remember what I do when I reflect back on my week. And yet I do...
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Prioritising what to work on in GOV
So, I’m currently working on the Probation Reform Programme a huge piece of work to transform the way in which we manage people on probation and ultimately try and rehabilitate them so they don’t...
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On Principles
Recently, small-batch jacket company Paynter shared the principles of a photographer they know, a man called Jim Marsden. Go read them, they’re wonderful. Jim’s collection got me thinking about my...
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Next!
New kicks I’m leaving the MoJ at the end of August. I’ll have been there 3yrs and 7mths, the last 2 and a half years doing the job of a Service Owner responsible for delivering new digital services...
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