Doctor's Note

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

Photographer's Rights

I’ve long been uncomfortable and unclear about the law when it comes to taking photos in public places and have read of several situations when …

R.I.P. Leo - 8.30AM, 22.3.2008

Our cat, Leo, who travelled with us all the way from Australia, died this morning having struggled with FIV (the feline version of HIV) for the last year. For …

Creative Play helps children's self-control

There’s an interesting piece about Creative Play on NPR at the moment that looks at a school running the Tools of the Mind programme. One of the findings …

iSmoke - How wrong? Very.

I walked past this ‘iSmoke’ ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes the other day. How wrong? Let me count the ways… It’s lazy creative. This is …

37signals versus Don Norman

If there was ever a clear example of the generation gap between those who have been steeped in digital culture from the start and those who have had to adopt it …

Film Friends Forever Oscar & Bafta Screening

I don’t normally do straight plugs for things that aren’t interactive and that I’ve never heard of, but this screening at Film Friends Forever …

Mac Virus with Gravitas

Troika, the folks behind the cloud sculpture at Heathrow, have created a virus on a USB stick, called the Newton Virus (for manual infection) that makes your …