FISH STICKS
Teaching interaction design
You never learned as much taking a class as you did helping teach one, and I felt very lucky to do...
CUSTARD PIE
Text adventure
"You are in a comfortable coffin, lined indulgently in red silk. The coffin is buried six...
FLUTTER.COM
First betting exchange
In retrospect I should have known better. I was the 8th employee of a very stealthy startup, and...
STORYTRACK
Photo album tablet
People tell stories as they look at photos together: grandmothers, grandsons, and everyone...
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Global partnerships and connections
I've had a few nerve wracking road trips in my life, but a dawn taxi ride to the Cairo airport is...
SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE
Visualising world population
Sense of Perspective is a circle of lights showing global birth and death rates, in 60 directions...
CATAPULTING
Accelerating technology adoption in the UK
Our mission at Digital Catapult was insane: impacting the UK economy through driving faster...
BEACHSPOTTER
All the world's beaches
It was the time of Google Maps appearing on the scene, mashups, and web 2.0. We'd spotted a...
HOME HACKS
Instrumenting the kitchen
I'll have to admit I've always wanted to have a house full of contraptions. Despite managing to...
THEATRE CLUB
Group discounts on Facebook
Our colleague Jay Fichialos at Sabre in Texas had started doing...
TOUCHVERSE
Audio + pointing messages
Greg Wolff definitely had the most accurate frisbee throw of anyone I've worked with, having been...
CHERRY TREE
Ambient visualisation
I watched a talk by the great Edward Tufte where he mentioned the idea of using elements of the...
WORLD HIERARCHY
A page for everywhere
Chip Steinmetz was a larger-than-life character who had come to lastminute.com from Disney to...
POLO SEARCH
Radial date selection
Only once in my life have I been involved in a project that made a test user feel physically...
WHAT THE FLUTTER
Not quite viral
Vince, one of the three founders of flutter.com, had a ridiculous number of siblings, a penchant...
MARTIAN COMMUNICATOR
Tiny touchscreen interfaces
The Xerox EuroPARC lab in Cambridge was a heady mix of Wallace and Gromit-style crazy...
COUNTING BREATHS
Real-world digital biomarkers
Sending the clinicians to the toilets to remove their shirts and try out home-made iPhone...
POROUS BOUNDARIES
Connecting academics and startups
Stanford is the poster child for porous boundaries between universities, startups and bigger...
TICKET APP
Very last minute theatre tickets
The idea of tickets had bothered me for a while. We all understand ecommerce - you go to a site,...
NHS DIGITAL BOARD
National health IT & data services
Writing this at the end of 2021, after five years as a 'NED' (non-executive director) on the NHS...
RECENTLY VIEWED
Profitable personalisation
Every time I met my friend Antony for a drink he'd say "You still working on that little...