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A bit belated this, but here it is nevertheless:

It loses a bit of impact without the commentary, but you can get the main idea I think. I’d like to thank those that came along to listen and joined in with their own stories.
UXCampLondon was my first BarCamp experience, and it was brilliant. Thanks to everyone [...]

While I’m still in a post Berlin haze, lo and behold, Mark Hurst and the folks at Good Experience have come up with a great video by Chip Conley.
Chip’s the CEO of a boutique hotel chain in the US, which is the real world version of what we were fictionally designing for at UX Intensive [...]

Last week Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to be sent off to a very big hotel in the middle of Berlin for Adaptive Path’s UX Intensive training course / conference thing.
It was really rather special. Special enough to warrant a proper blog post, so off we go:
The Adaptive Path Experience
This is the first [...]

This past week was the Carsonified crew’s second biggest event, Future of Web Design in Kensington.
Traditionally, I’ve always preferred the vibe at FOWD a bit more than FOWA. It may not have the same globally recognised internet-rock-star line up, but the focus on creative brilliance is far more inspirational. There’s also less attention given to [...]

Those responsible for the larks of the Twestival Twitter meetup are at it once more. The first batch of tickets for Twestival London were released this afternoon.
There are more coming later this week apparently. There was one major usability problem – so I grabbed the Flip to film Kai booking his ticket.
But hey, 350 twitterers [...]

I just had my first anniversary.
Last November, I switched from PC to Mac.
Violent MSFT dissent. XP no more. So long, spyware. Etcetera.
Best. Day. Ever.
After a few months of consistent and dedicated whinging, I’d managed to persuade my tech lead that I needed a MacBook Pro to edit video on (and you can see the eventual [...]

I don’t really want to talk about fundraising on this blog. However, I can make an exception this time.
‘Atheist Bus’ has dominated my working day since launch on tuesday morning. We’re in the enviable hotseat where we can see where all the traffic is coming from, with our all our awesome dashboards of win. Here’s [...]

Me and most of the London tech collective attended the Future of Web Apps conference in a cold and desolate part of docklands this week. I’m going to post a series of thoughts on it over the next week or so.
On the way from crappy hotel to Excel on Friday morning, I shared a bacon [...]

Future of Web Apps starts next week. Exciting.
Probably my favourite event of the year, and in 2007 it was partly responsible for helping our team really push forward. Just like a really great conference should.
So here’s my (unashamedly honest) FOWA todo list.

Talk to Kevin Rose without coming across as a babbling fanboy
Steal a Microsoft bean [...]

Yesterday we dusted off our suits for the Bank of Scotland Entrepreneurial challenge which is worth about £35m in interest-free investment for the winners. Of all the times of the year to go to an event like that. You couldn’t script it any better.
Millions of words have already been written this week about the Lloyd’s [...]