Digital by Default

Tag: Design

  • [book report] Make Time

    This is the new book by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky — ex of Google Ventures and the people behind the popular GV Design Sprint method (I’m not comfortable calling them inventors as I’m pretty sure that IDEO and others did something *really* similar before). I’m a fan of design sprints and their book Sprint so I…

  • A reading list for ‘this thing of ours’

    I was chatting to Ann and Dai recently and Ann mentioned getting an extra copy of Sarah Richard’s book on content design to leave around the office to see if just leaving the book around inspires people to pick it up and get a better idea of just what it is we are all trying…

  • Helping Gatekeepers become Transformers

    In my years doing this ‘digital transformation’ lark (and call it whatever you like — you know what I mean if you are reading this!) I have totally embraced this idea that it is about the people and not the technology. That said not all people are created equal and increasingly I’ve realised that (at least at…

  • myWeek (s4e16)

    The grape depression Gentle reader let me be honest. Monday was bad. The kind of hangover that makes you rethink decades of decisions. The kind of day where the idea of being vertical sounds like a fairy tale told to scare children. Where any food of nutritional value was worthless and ignored. It had an…

  • Kindle Backlog 2017

    I’ve just done a trawl through my Kindle ‘library’ and have identified 30 books that languish unread (or never read beyond a tiny percentage) and they are all books that I have, at some point, really wanted to read. So my new mission for 2017 is to clear this backlog. I’ve just started ‘Empire Games’…