Van Gogh, Sunflowers
How do you see and respond to the world? A story that’s relevant to the question of AI and creativity. Read more
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Create image
Some initial thoughts about ChatGPT–4o image generation capabilities. Read more
Everything service patterns
Everything I know about and have bookmarked about service patterns work since 2016. Read more
Service pattern people
Reflections on an event for Services Week 2025 and how organisations are working with service patterns. Read more
Things get smaller the further you step away from them
A new post about mental health, walking, and putting things into perspective. Read more
A story of data indicators
A personal example of misinterpreting data, and how data indicators shape the stories we’re part of. Read more
Apple Intelligence ads and the lack of a use case
New technology can be inspiring and aspirational, but why future progress is only as good as our imagination. Read more
Improving productivity and the need for service design
My thoughts on UK government plans to increase productivity using AI and digital transformation. Read more
Reflections and memories from COVID-19 lockdown
Reflecting at a personal level on the 5 year anniversary of the pandemic. Read more
Permacrisis
5 years on from COVID-19 and how digital transformation became about a permacrisis. Read more
Good design is structure for the work
Revisiting hypothesis-based approaches and the importance of ideas that end with a question mark. Read more
You are here… or they are here?
How it’s wired into us that we’re the centre of the map. Read more
Anchor points
How the fixed points in our work determine how we make progress. Read more
AI content consequences
Exploring the use cases and consequences of AI content, including what this means for brands and trust. Read more
Why aren’t the potholes fixed yet?
Better understanding the real problem of fixing the UK roads and how technology and innovation might help. Read more
Technology as the infrastructure of everything
Understanding DOGE and why organisations still need to reset their relationships with technology. Read more
The messy middle
Why change is hard. Exploring how it involves understanding people and team dynamics to try and unlock progress and new ways of doing things. Read more
Digital in an AI-era
Breaking down organisational challenges and responding to change with technology. Read more
The importance of the stories we create for ourselves
Philippe Petit’s World Trade Center high-wire stunt in 1974 and the stories we take as true. Read more