On Cloning and Competition
A current bugbear: The insinuation that making something else in a product class that is already established is automatically competitive.
The London UX Job Pool – A Guide for Candidates
There are too many UX roles in London right now to have enough qualified people to fill them all. I’m not the first to say it, but if you’re wondering if the grass is greener elsewhere, then now is the … Continue reading
IT management for dummies
Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon’s retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple’s Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored … Continue reading
“And when you’re dealing with those kinds of numbers, it’s literally impossible not to treat your users as pieces of data.”
Easily the best thing Paul Carr has written in ages. That kind of wealth can easily drive the most saintly of us to behave in inhuman ways — to become so remote from reality and humanity that users [like EJ] … Continue reading
When one button isn’t enough
I’ve been thinking about mapping this out for a while, but couldn’t have done as good a job as this.
“This is what happens when we turn our filmmakers into religious figures”
How very disappointing. Much of the other early Cannes feedback seems to be divided. I’ll still be seeing this one theatrically though, you don’t get to see Malick in the cinema very often.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney’s original vision for EPCOT was a modernist utopia in the Florida swamps, half Le Corbusier and half Fordlandia, “a planned, controlled community, a showcase for American industry and research, schools, cultural and educational opportunities.” But the reality is just another … Continue reading
South by SouthWest. A retrospective.
South by South West is not a conference, nor a festival. It is a vast, exhausting attention vortex that wields global influence and remains unlike any other event I have experienced. Unlike most other authors of posts like this, I … Continue reading
Mute, don’t re-follow.
There has been only one. Only one single service that has done this properly, and having tried out PR-laden SXSW hype-beasties #Hashable and Ditto this week (as well as countless others, Quora included), I’ve experienced it once too many, turned incandescent … Continue reading
Le 28Thiers – Le Burger of the North
Hey! France! Stop being so complacent! Bit of a disappointing trip, this one. Lille seems to have suffered a bit from its Eurostar hub status: The Euro is still walloping us. Paul seems to have turned into a strange Disneyland … Continue reading
A truly British Monopoly – the #MEATEASY
So many great things have happened since my first post on the Meatwagon early last year. I’ve visited countless times, and even ran into Yianni at the Verdugo Bar in LA last summer. I was on holiday. Yianni was doing … Continue reading
The Draft House / Pub / Tower Bridge SE1
It’s not too embarrassing to admit the only reason I wanted to go here over my usual Thursday night Bankside beer haunt is because of Jay Rayner’s glowing review the other week. Beer, booths and burgers is a combination I’ll … Continue reading
Goodman City / Steak / Bank EC2R
I stumbled into the Mayfair Goodman with the good lady completely by accident a few months ago. We had in fact been making our way across the West End to Byron, to try out the celebrated nuclear cheese version of … Continue reading
The Ledbury / Tasting Menu / Notting Hill W11
Well. The annual Big One. The Ledbury was the site of my birthday lunch, back in May. The annual epic Michelin blow-out. The Ledbury was absolutely top of the list after genuinely gushing reviews from all kinds of folks whom … Continue reading
Shacklewell Nights / Pop-up Restaurant / Dalston E8
It’s funny how it’s only really been nine months or so since I started visiting East London’s supper clubs, and the speed with which they seem to be proliferating and evolving. We were lucky enough to visit Shacklewell Nights’ first … Continue reading