Doctor's Note

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

Podcast Interview with Hector Serrano

My interview with Hector Serrano is now available on the Core77 Broadcasts page. My thanks to Hector for an entertaining chat about his playful and insightful …

The Seven Stages of Falling in Love with Web Applications

Photo: eek the cat The other day I was trying to explain the emotional relationships people have social utilities and other read/write web applications …

IKEA Complete Bedroom

I seem to be having a bit of an IKEA theme going on at the moment. Following on from the Dream Kitchen site there’s a nice new piece called The Complete …

Outside of the Internet there is no Glory

I liked this and the sentiment. It’s a poster for the Biennial in Greece from Manetas. (Via Thomas).

From the archives: Dialogue with IKEA's Monika Mulder

Continuing the From The Archives series, here is an interview I did a while ago with one of the IKEA designers, Monika Mulder. Monika was really interesting to …

BlinkM - RGB LED Projects made easy

If you read Russell’s great post, Reskilling For An Age of Things and sympathised with his woeful soldering skills, these BlinkM programmable RGB LEDs …

Got ripped off in a MacHeist? It's a UI failure.

No, not a hold-up in McDonalds, but the MacHeist Mac software bundle sale/game. Like many, I got charged ten times and received nothing and also heard nothing …