Cookpad… a company which is an absolute sensation in Japan, have gone global with their recipe sharing platform serving almost…
Update: If you’re interested in this kind of experience, check out CIID’s Summer Schools this year in Copenhagen and Costa…
What might happen if your community were to rethink the “unrethinkable”? What could we enable if, at a local, social…
Back in February 2018, Eilidh Dickson and I travelled to Interaction18 conference in Lyon to present a the findings of…
More than six months ago I picked up “Reclaiming Conversation” by Sherry Turkle and devoured it over the Christmas break. Just…
This is my contribution to the publication “The Pursuit of Legible Policy” (May 2016) which was produced via a collaboration between…
How might we design and build a service to make “smart city” technology available to all citizens for experimentation and…
This post is based on a talk I gave at Interaction16 in Helsinki, March 2016. It’s less “design talk” and…
In 2015, I was lucky to lead a great team at Future Cities Catapult as we investigated potential applications for…
Transitioning from designer to design lead ain’t easy. You love your craft but now you need to think ever more…
Teams are the only way we can deliver complex design projects. Teams are key to the creation of something new…
Back in November 2014, I left Copenhagen for London. Having spent 4 years in the Danish capital I considered it…
During almost three years as an interaction and service designer with CIID Consulting I worked on many projects across their…
The following is a piece of travel writing completed in 2008 while I was travelling in South America. It was…
The following is a piece of travel writing completed for the Irish Independent in 2008 while I was travelling in…
I am delighted to be involved this year with Interactivos ’12 at the Science Gallery in Dublin in association with MediaLab…
Five months after completing “Common Room” I’m finished a frantic period of travel, freelance work and reflection and finally getting…
“And now, the end is near, and so I face…” I think I’m actually starting to go a bit mental….
‘Common Room began with an investigation into the shared spaces of Backpacker Hostels. These traditionally friendly, social spaces are changing…
Week eight has been spent almost entirely in the workshop. I’m looking back at my optimistic project plan for the…