Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Beyond the Fold, Print Lives On.

Although newspapers are struggling to work out what to do about the decline of the printed sheet, the death of print doesn’t seem to be anywhere near …

Apple UI Counting Fail

I was just updating my Airport Express settings and noticed this rare Apple UI fail. Bad number sorting.

Writing is Design

“Verbalizing design is another act of design. I realised this while writing this book,” writes Kenya Hara in the preface to his book, Designing …

Service Means Survival

(Photo credit: dos2kx) Lauren posted a linke to BusinessWeek’s report, When Service Means Survival. The basic thrust is that in a tight economic …

Playful

Lovely work by Pablo Alfieri whose portfolio site is dubbed Playful – a name I can thoroughly relate to (and was thinking of using myself - bah!). Many of his …

Digital Analog Clock

I like this digital analog clock from Alvin Aronson. Each segment slowly pushes forward or recedes back as the minute changes, which creates a analog in-between …

John Cleese on Creativity

I hate being interrupted when I’m in the midst of writing a… sorry… hang on… Okay, I’m back. Now, what was I saying? Whatever, …