Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Social Profile - I'm interesting and boring

Disraeli’s quip, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” could do with “and Facebook” tagged onto it, …

Philosophical 404

I know there are plenty of 404 pages out there, but I stumbled across this one today and quite liked its minimal, haiku style. That’s all. (This one is …

OLPC - I take it all back

Some will argue that I’m weak-willed, but I have made a 180-degree change of opinion on the merits of the One Laptop Per Child project thanks to Tom …

iPlay - interactivity without the flab

Chris just posted an interesting find called the iPlay. It’s basically an interactive playground frame game, which means that children have to run around …

LED Toilet Door Mix-Up Signs, Denmark

Those crazy Danes. (Image stolen from djaphrael) Amusing project over at Halfmachine which involved making toilet door signs from LEDs in a club. Of course, …

Share The Mouse on a Web Page

That’s My Mouse allows you to see share a web browsing experience with other people. You see their tag moving around as they move their mouse and any …

Podcast Interview with Hector Serrano

My interview with Hector Serrano is now available on the Core77 Broadcasts page. My thanks to Hector for an entertaining chat about his playful and insightful …

The Seven Stages of Falling in Love with Web Applications

Photo: eek the cat The other day I was trying to explain the emotional relationships people have social utilities and other read/write web applications …

IKEA Complete Bedroom

I seem to be having a bit of an IKEA theme going on at the moment. Following on from the Dream Kitchen site there’s a nice new piece called The Complete …

Outside of the Internet there is no Glory

I liked this and the sentiment. It’s a poster for the Biennial in Greece from Manetas. (Via Thomas).