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The personal line
The importance of remembering that you are not your work. Read more
Bookshelf – 2020 into 2021
My reading list – 2020 into 2021. Read more
Ready for everything, or ready for anything?
Why it’s not smart to design for everything. Read more
Sinking sand
How often is it that we’re not able to see where we’ll get stuck in our work? Read more
Mezzanine levels for service design
The need to keep moving between the design of future states, and what is actually possible, in order to make progress. Read more
As-is for service design
Why the goal in service design should be to carefully frame better ways and starting points to design what could happen next. Read more
Could-be-anywhere-ness
A story that starts with planning decisions in Coventry, and the problem of design losing any sense of the places and communities it represents. Read more
The design mindset and how organisations manage uncertainty
Exploring the stages how design helps organisations to manage uncertainty. Read more
The prototyping mindset
Why prototyping can be an important tool for learning as part of discovery work. Read more
Simplify your slide decks
Some practical advice for simplifying your slide decks, and for thinking about what you want to communicate. Read more
The push and pull of giving design feedback
Some more thoughts on design feedback. Do you need to push or pull? Read more
Fingerprints
A reflection on the visible contribution we’re able to make as design leaders. #shortread Read more
Creativity is putting all the balls in the paddling pool
Sometimes there isn’t a good reason to try something new. Other than, why not? Read more
An introduction to service modelling
Introducing and exploring a way for organisations to create, test, and scale the design of whole services. Read more
New and changing patterns for digital working
Thinking about how we can move from remote to more digital and asynchronous ways of working. Read more
Systems, design thinking
A new reframing and definition of systems thinking. Read more
Map making
Understanding and using service maps as moments in time. Read more
The link between hypotheses and telling stories
Useful formats for capturing and working with hypotheses as stories. Read more