Category: thoughts
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Is ‘Agile’ important?
I’ve linked to this on Twitter but I just wanted to comment on it here. Bob Marshall has written this brilliant post titled Agile Development Doesn’t Work and I think it is a must read for anyone in web development (especially on the management side). It can be summed up with its introductory statement; Q:…
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Considering the case against WYSIWYG
Thanks to the power of Twitter I was recently pointed to this article by Rachel Andrew , who amongst other things is one of the founders of the lightweight CMS Perch, titled Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks. It riffs on a couple of topics that I have seen come up a few times recently and have…
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My Internet (sorta like Bens)
Ben Terrett, who amongst other things is Head of Design at the Government Digital Service, linked to a blogpost he wrote in 2008 recently titled ‘My Internet‘. It struck a bit of a chord with me – especially as so little has changed in those three years and how much I agree with. Numbers 1…
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Learning from the BBC Sport redesign
One of the things I have admired for a while about the BBC Internet team(s) and now the GOV.UK (in caps ‘cos they mean business) is just how much of their thinking and processes they share openly on their blogs. In recent months the GOV.UK blog has been a regular source of answers and inspiration…
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Making sense from chaos
Let me put this out there straight away. I am not an organised person. Far from it. Unlike many friends and colleagues I was spared the compulsive list making gene and things like GTD or worrying about ‘inbox zero‘ are about as far from my day to day concerns as it is possible to get.…
