Doctor's Note

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

Director Lives Again for Retro Games

Like all of us at Antirom, Macromedia’s Director was a revolution because it allowed a bunch of non-coders to make interactive ‘stuff’. The …

Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design Opens

A year or so ago I heard about plans to set up the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and I’m really happy to see that they are now ready …

The Dramatic Impact of the 'Silent Revolution'

I’m very chuffed to see that ChangeThis selected my thoughts on education to be part of their manifesto the Dramtic Impact of The Silent Revolution. …

The Art of Peter Polaine

Christmas Dinner - Woodcut I’ve been meaning to post a quick link to my father’s website and online gallery for a while. It’s not totally …

Where to now with multitouch?

I’ve been doing a bit of catching up with my blog reading recently and noticed Chris’s post on Pixelsumo about the HP giant Multi-Touch screen with …

Bad Remote

I saw this at Ray and Rachel’s house the other day. They had stuck the stickers on for Ray’s dad, but the point is that the interface should have …

Pixel popping on the phone

I just had an update from Karl Willis about a project called Twelve Pixels that he has been working on with Dr. Ivan Poupyrev at Sony’s CSL Interaction …