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Some news, mostly around writing 29 Jun 2013 | 01:02 am
• My PhD, which was inspired and indeed sired by this blog, back in 2007, has finally been approved by the examiners. I’ve put the thesis online with a few comments. I’ll have a proper post reflecting...
Making it easy 21 Mar 2013 | 12:40 pm
I have a blog post up at Guardian Sustainable Business, looking essentially at what’s been referred to here previously as ‘enabling‘ behaviour change, specifically in the context of sustainability. I...
Designers, literature, abstracts and Concretes 10 Feb 2013 | 03:39 am
Last week, I put a quick survey online asking how actual designers make use of academic literature. It provoked some interesting discussion on Twitter as well as two great blog posts from Dr Nicola C...
How do actual designers use academic literature? 2 Feb 2013 | 12:07 am
The whole point of doing research is to extract reliable knowledge from either the natural or artificial world, and to make that knowledge available to others in re-usable form. Nigel Cross, ‘Design ...
Code as control 29 Jan 2013 | 09:18 pm
In the earlier days of this blog, many of the posts were about code, in the Lawrence Lessig sense: the idea that the structure of software and the internet and the rules designed into these systems do...
Report: Most people just trying to get by 23 Jan 2013 | 06:59 am
Most people, for most of their day, are trying to get by. Every day is essentially a series of problems, some minor, some major, some requiring more thought than others. Some we care a lot about; some...
Report: Most people just trying to get by 23 Jan 2013 | 06:59 am
Most people, for most of their day, are trying to get by. Every day is essentially a series of problems, some minor, some major, some requiring more thought than others. Some we care a lot about; some...
CarbonCulture blog launch 11 Sep 2012 | 03:00 am
It’s been quiet here, for reasons which will be explained later, but in the meantime I should mention that CarbonCulture (with whom I’ve been working for the past two years as part of the TSB-supporte...
CarbonCulture blog launch 11 Sep 2012 | 03:00 am
It’s been quiet here, for reasons which will be explained later, but in the meantime I should mention that CarbonCulture (with whom I’ve been working for the past two years as part of the TSB-supporte...
If… 10 Feb 2012 | 12:10 pm
There are lots of models of human behaviour, and as the design of systems becomes increasingly focused on people, modelling behaviour has become more important for designers. As Jon Froehlich, Leah Fi...
