ALT: This Is Fine Dog Meme in Burning House

My Bluesky profile includes a quote from a poem (probably) by St Teresa of Ávila which I discovered a few years ago. One of the stanzas goes: With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to us…

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

My team is hiring! I'm looking for a London-based senior user researcher (5-10 years experience) with experience of naturalistic observation and in-person usability studies. You must be available to t...

Adbusters is a global collective of poets, punks and philosophers implementing radical design and media strategies to shake up complacent consumerist culture. We're aiming at the stale systems suffoca...

How a walk on the heath became a bilingual book of poems. Launch: 9 October, San Serriffe

This week was the start of month 6 as Head of UCD in Digital Screening in NHS England. Here are some things I am thinking about: The NHS is not one place, it’s a network of businesses and tru…

Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit

Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.

YouTube video by Madonna

It’s that time again. Usman Haque asked me to start organising the meetup back in November 2011 and for some years, I was able to find enough sponsorship to pay for my time and cover the cost…

The focus groups must have given the all clear: Tony Blair has emerged in reading glasses for the first time in public.