This is a tale about the limits of seeing health as services that need to be designed. My tl;dr is that you’re probably not designing a service, you’re probably trying to tweak interactions (or touch points in service design language) in the hope that the service user (barf) has the outcome they expect. So for… Continue reading Services or interactions? (a perimenopausal example)
Category: Product design
New work: Human Values and policy-making
Over the past few months, I’ve been working with the BBC R&D team on advancing their Human Values research in the context of some NESTA funding we won. We’re working entirely remotely and I’ve been enjoying working with friends, old and new, in their North Lab. Since the Open Internet of Things event I helped Usman… Continue reading New work: Human Values and policy-making
The case for small design schools
I haven’t put a lot of effort in blogging here recently so I thought I’d kick off with a January post and get back in the groove. I was invited by Francisco to come back to ITESM in Mexico City after leading a 3 day teacher training workshop last December. This time around I’m here to help… Continue reading The case for small design schools
The year of the Good Night Lamp
I’ve been a bit quiet about the the Good Night Lamp but this year was major. I actually made and shipped lamps around the world. Here is a rather long breakdown of how I did it, how much it cost and what’s next. A bit of history I had the idea in 2005 as a student… Continue reading The year of the Good Night Lamp
Pour boxer, il faut avoir faim: my thoughts on design for design students
Written for an exhibition put on by Middlesex University as part of London Design Festival. I graduated from a McSc in Industrial Design 2004 and here’s what I wish they’d told me. You won’t design this way ever again. If you work for someone else, you will spend 100% of your time designing 10% of… Continue reading Pour boxer, il faut avoir faim: my thoughts on design for design students
Change in times of change
I was reminded of this video which, shot in 2000, is strangely prescient of the times we live in now. The beauty of Hussein Chalayan‘s work never ends it must be said but I have a soft spot for this collection. “Chalayan’s Afterwords Collection was inspired by the story of refugees, having to leave home… Continue reading Change in times of change
Thoughts for an Internet of Things education
I went to see New Designers last week in London, a yearly pilgrimage. I went to product design school at the beginning of the century and I was really hoping that in a digital age, things would feel, well, modern. They didn’t really. If you’ve never been, ND is a fair for product design graduates… Continue reading Thoughts for an Internet of Things education
FRSTEE: Making a business out of rapid prototyping
As part of RIG, I worked closely with Phil, Andy and Amanda (an absolute pleasure, you should hire them, seriously) to launch FRSTEE a few weeks ago. The most interesting thing about this project for me was the opportunity to work with rapid prototyping in a way that made economic sense. To build a micro-business… Continue reading FRSTEE: Making a business out of rapid prototyping
MapCodes: maps for an internet of things
A few months ago, I started exploring a simple idea around keyrings. This turned into material explorations using laser cutting and wood and finally perspex. The perspex version I built looked a lot more abstract, a little 1920s jewellery, but later it occured to me that what I had designed, through a material exploration was… Continue reading MapCodes: maps for an internet of things
Making in London
I’m starting to put together a little map (duh) of digital making resources in London I have used or know about. Mostly laser cutting services for now, but will add more. If you think of anything else, drop me a line! View Making in London in a larger map