Category Archives: Personal

Tokyo as seen by a tourist 1 year ago today

There is no denying it: I find Tokyo fascinating; The future of my industry and the world of Blade Runner and ShadowRun incarnated.
I first visited Tokyo in 2009 with my wife and we both loved the place. So alien… Read the rest of this article.

Abandoned restaurant
Published April 23rd, 2012 in Personal | No Comments »
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My new personal business cards made me reconsider how I promote social media profiles

As a digital designer making business card is not something I do for clients so it is not a familiar process. Adding to that I always find it much more difficult to design something for myself.
Initial design thoughts
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Personal Business Card
Published April 15th, 2012 in Personal, Social media | No Comments »
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Why I left the London digital design agency world and joined Capgemini’s UX team

I’ve just been watching a video of David Reed, a Principal Consultant for Capgemini Consulting, talking about his first 100 days with Capgemini and it made me think about why I, as a creative person, made the move to join… Read the rest of this article.

Capgemini
Published April 5th, 2012 in Digital design, Personal, User experience | No Comments »
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What happens when you email the wrong job spec to the wrong candidate

I regularly get job offers from both job agencies and direct. Some are more interesting and relevant than others, but they all have some connection to what I am doing now or have being doing in the past… until today… Read the rest of this article.

Published August 19th, 2011 in Personal, User experience | 5 Comments »
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Too many social media networks, too little time

It all started last year (2010) when I realised FourSquare didn’t really offer me anything of value as a private person eventhough I find it fascinating as a digital professional. Up until that point I had done everything I could… Read the rest of this article.

Published February 13th, 2011 in Personal, Social media | No Comments »
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A summary of my 2010 articles

2010… so went my first full year of blogging since 2001. Here is a list of all my posts from this year in chronological with my personal favourites highlighted in bold. Maybe you can find something of use here:

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Published December 17th, 2010 in Personal | No Comments »
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A couple of my old Christmas Flash games

I don’t really do Flash actionscripting anymore but here are a couple of old Christmas I have created in the past. Enjoy:… Read the rest of this article.

Published December 9th, 2010 in Digital design, Personal | No Comments »
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Visiting Tokyo on a budget

This article was co-created with my wife in 2010.
Last year we decided to go to Tokyo for a week for the very first time. Granted we didn’t book a package holiday, but we did do the tourist stuff such… Read the rest of this article.

Published June 25th, 2010 in Personal | 2 Comments »
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Top 10 Tips to Walking Oxford Street Fast Successfully

You may have walked around in a city before; you may even have walked around in London before. But then you tried Oxford Street!
You entered with confidence, but quickly you realise any direction you walk everybody is walking the… Read the rest of this article.

Published May 28th, 2010 in Personal | No Comments »
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How Twitter helped us hunt down Danny Choo, the Dancing Stormtrooper

My wife (@ddotark) and I are both fans of Danny Choo, the King of the Otaku. He is currently in London and we were ofcourse hoping he would do his famous Storm Trooper Dance while he is here.
If you… Read the rest of this article.

Published April 10th, 2010 in Personal, Social media | 4 Comments »
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