Doctor's Note

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

ADC Awards Deadline 23rd Jan

I feel very honoured to have been asked to be on the interactive jury for the ADC awards this year. My thanks to Brendan Dawes for the invite. The deadline for …

Code, Form, Space Symposium

This Code, Form, Space symposium looks like it will be great. Is anyone going who will be blogging/twittering it?

Homeland Security - Worst Alert Box Ever

I’m on the interactive jury for the Art Directors Club Awards this year, which I am very chuffed about. Not least because I get the chance to go to New …

Jonathan Harris on the Creative Review Blog

I seem to have been writing about Jonathan Harris rather a lot recently. Following the piece on Flash on the Beach I wrote in Creative Review in November, an …

Amusing Fenec Preferences

Thought I had posted this weeks ago and found it loitering in my scheduled posts. Entertaining set of preferences descriptions for Fenec, Mozilla’s new …

Interaction Design for Behavioural Change

Interaction design is all about changing people’s behaviour. Without the action > reaction part, there is no interaction. Whether you click one button …

Interactive Video Object Manipulation

I have noticed I have been posting a lot of videos recently – I’m not sure if that’s me being lazy or that some things are simply a lot easier to …