Photo blog: new office mural
Time for a new mural in the office, based on a famous Edward McKnight Kauffer poster design from 1919.
New office mural
Archive : April 2012
8 posts
Instagram is mine and it owes me a living
So this isn't an actual Smiths lyric, but this bastardised version has been rattling around in my head while thinking about the whole Instagram + Facebook thing over the last week. In trying to figure out how I feel about it I keep returning to a couple of ideas.
Picle 1.0.3 is in the App Store
Toot toot! Picle 1.0.3 is in the app store. It isn't the overhauled socially integrated version that I wrote about previously, but it does include something that we have had a lot of requests for, converting picles into movies. There are also new notification screens for uploading stories and the uploading of individual Picles has had some improvement tweeks made.
Instagram: it's all over
Instagram, I loved you.
You were my first real relationship after Twitter, and right now I feel angry and bitter about you turning your back on all the good stuff we had going. I feel shut out by you, and I can't bear the thought of you and Facebook, you know... 'together'...
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I don't know how I can keep all this hurting inside of me...
Tim Interviewed at South by South West by Relax In The Air
Tim took time out from SxSW to answer questions on Picle, its future developments, walking around in underwear and other things to look forward to.
Thanks very much to Relax in the Air and MC Casal for the interview and kind words.
How can innovation and technology play well together in the public sector?
Last night I went along to the first Ad Hoc enquiries. It's a new approach to doing an event. Someone is invited to present on a topic within the broad sphere of innovation in the public sector, a diverse mix of people are selected to come along, have supper and frankly discuss and critique the topic of the day.
Last night's topic was "imaginative, liberating technology" and it centred around a case study on Patchwork presented by Ian Drysdale.
Design for a two speed world
Part 2 in an occasional series about how digital products and services can learn from real world experiences
As designers and makers we all aspire to be able to grow and improve the things we create. Either because it’s part of the plan (a minimum viable product launch), or because since release you’ve discovered new user behaviours or requirements that need to be rolled in. Or it may be because technology and standards have changed around you. Unleashing a new release is what agilistas live for. But what happens if you can’t? What happens if you can’t improve upon your original product and make a second release?
This could be for any number of reasons – changing priorities, budgets drying up, teams moving on or the project’s sponsors having a ‘that’ll do’ attitude. Or maybe the world has shifted, and you’re stuck with a design, product or technology platform that simply can’t be updated easily without massive investment.
A good example of this are the self-service ticket machines at railway stations. It’s difficult to imagine a more heinous crime against user experience than the machines across the National Express network. Instead of speeding up or simplifying the ticket buying process, they add complexity and hassle – what should be easy is made into a soul-destroying moment.
Picle 1.0.2 is in the App Store
In my last post I wrote about how we are moving forward with Picle and that we have an interim release coming out this week, well the good news is that the interim release (1.0.2) is live in the App Store now.
