Doctor's Note

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

Taxi Driver With Storyboards

There’s a discussion going on over at IxDA about whether an interaction design can create great interaction without great visual design skills. My answer …

Peter Polaine

Just a quick note to say if you are here because you are looking for the work of my father, Peter Polaine, the newspaper covering his portrait exhibition with …

The Unfinished Swan

The Unfinished Swan is a still in-development game set in an entirely white world. Instead of splattering the blood of monsters around the walls, the player …

Generative Art

Nothing changes much. Re-dub courtesy of Phillip Kerman.

Your Graphics Cast a Dark Shadow Across All of Your Work

(Via the IxDA list)

Twittering Mad Men

What a weird meta media world we live in. I tweeted that I was off to watch Mad Men only to find this morning that I am being followed on Twitter by Peggy Olson …

Energy Shoes

NTT’s energy-generating shoes (above) are amongst the many similar ideas I had and never did anything about. Sigh. Here’s the proof from 9 years …