User Interfaces should not be Designed to Last
One of my all time favourite books is “Designing Design” by Kenya Hara, the Art Director for Muji. In the book Hara describes the ethos behind Muji products is they are not meant to last. They are meant to serve a purpose, get worn, get replaced. When we embark on digital projects we are faced with […]
How to identify and pay back Creative Debt
At a recent knowledge share day, a colleague of mine, Paul Stiles who is a Technical Solution Architect, talked about “Technical Debt”. For me it was a real eye-opened because there are so many parallels to design… to Creative Debt.
Looking back at my first 6 months as Creative Director at Salesforce.com
Six months ago I accepted a position as European Creative Director for Salesforce Customer Experience Design (CXD), which is Salesforce.com‘s full service inhouse digital agency (from transformation through to fully custom branded solutions). Before the epic Dreamforce 2014 hits me full on, I just want to take a pause and look back at my first 6 months […]
Catching up with the Customers
The Internet, and Customers, are moving faster and faster. How can we catch up?
Tips on how to decide which Linkedin connections to keep
Linkedin is a social network for your profesisonal self. This article looks at how to decide which connections are helping your career and which you should stay in touch with through other, more suitable means.
Where’s the trust gone?
As an industry we keep telling our clients that they need to built trust online, but how will they ever stand a chance if we can’t even trust each other as individuals online?
Shaving off blog posts
If I can communicate a blog post through a summary. Should the summary not be the blog post?
How the lack of a seamless, multi-channel response put me off helping in the future
It is vital that companies not only listen and respond, but do so as a progressive and seamless single conversation to avoid frustrating customers.
How to migrate all members of a public Twitter list to your own Twitter list
Using a combination of Tweepi.com and Tweetbe.at allows you to migrate members of public Twitter lists to your own Twitter lists.
Is Facebook’s information overload problem also a problem for the Social Business Workplace?
There are on average 1,500 potential stories from friends, people they follow and Pages for Facebook users to see, according to Business Insider.
The Social Workplace is facing the same threat from information overload.