Doctor's Note

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

Goodbye Lilian

It’s not been an easy year for deaths in the family. Although I rarely post personal things on my blog, for some reason - at least to me - it feels like …

Browser OS and applications from Xcerion

Information Week’s story about Xcerion, a Swedish software company building what is pretty much a browser-based (read: XML) operating system is …

Adaptive Path research Second Life. Yawn.

It’s been interesting (in that way that your mum says your clothes are ‘interesting’) to see all the hype excitement about Second Life build …

Company relationships are like a marriage

Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users just made a brilliant comparison of customer relationships to personal relationships. She points out that many …

Inane Searches

Sometimes I trawl through Playpen’s stats to see how people find me. (Yes, yes, navel gazing - don’t tell me you don’t do it too). Anyway, I …

Zeitguised Interview

I interviewed crazy animation duo, Zeitguised, for the last issue of Desktop. I’ll post it here once my three-month buffer from Desktop’s publishing …

Gerwiiatrics

Following on from those thoughts about the Nintendo Wii, I noticed an Engadget re-blog of a Chicago Tribune story about folks in a retirement home getting into …