How relationships are the key to shipping great digital products. — Intro I recently had the pleasure of interviewing for my new role as Head of Design at Orbital. In my main interview with the outgoing Head of Design and the Chief Product Officer, whilst talking shop, I espoused the virtues of a solid, equitable, 3-way relationship between design, product and engineering.

Spacial computing is here and it’s *interesting* — After years of intense speculation, Apple have finally announced their long awaited foray into AR/VR. Apple Space Goggles®

How Artificial Intelligence is the new end of days — You charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries wage wars, you toxify your Earth and pursue ever more imaginative means of self-destruction. You cannot be trusted with your own survival. - I. Robot Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of machine learning, responsible for some…

A love letter to the Quantel Paintbox — In 1989 the British rock band Queen released their thirteenth studio album, ‘The Miracle’. The LP cover art, designed by Richard Gray, was a really groundbreaking creative piece of ‘Photoshopping’, with the headshots of the four band members ‘retouched’ into each other to make this weird, but realistic and striking…

How AI and machine learning are toxic for the design industry — The advancement of AI and machine learning is disturbing. It used to just be chess grandmasters that were bitchslapped by new technology. Now every industry is potentially threatened by automation.

Bringing back the finesse to digital product design I LOVE Typography. I studied it at LCP. It’s arguably one of the most underrated aspects of modern digital product design, and IMHO the most taken for granted. It’s one of the main reasons that most human beings passively enjoy about a…

A story about reconnecting with my first true love Prologue Oh my days, I used to LOVE design. Ever since I was a spotty teenager I wanted to be a graphic designer. It’s all I ever wanted to do (I previously flirted with being a chef or helicopter pilot, but I…

Thoughts on learning piano as an adult The piano is a beautiful instrument, those 88 keys are the cheat codes to every frequency of musical happiness. Every beautiful auditory pleasure imaginable. …

How to safely navigate the murky waters of e-commerce — So this article came up on the BBC News: Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ — Which? report It seems that fake reviews are a massive issue for Amazon This bit caught my eye: ‘Amazon said it was using automated technology to weed out false reviews’. Using AI to try…