Category: General

  • 10 Things I’ve Learned

    2016-03-14

    My friend/colleague/client Huw, has posted 10 things he's learned recently and challenged me to do the same. So here goes. 10 things I've learned recently.

  • Side Project: UX for Everyone

    2016-03-14

    In which I basically make a big song and dance about the fact that I have a new Twitter account and Facebook page.

  • Not so rapid application development

    2015-11-26

    I recently re-launched hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com, my super, super simple birth announcement service. I’ve rewritten it in Laravel: a PHP-based rapid application development framework. And one thing I learned is that launching even a super, super simple web application in public is a far from rapid process. Hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com is basically a big red button that changes the […]

  • New Friend: Marin Muirwoods 29er review

    2015-11-05

    An all-round, family adventure and commuting bike that brings out the inner hooligan. Bought from a fantastic local bike shop in Swindon centre. Me and my bikes So, a bit of history. I love bikes and cycling, as you can probably tell. But my stable has until now consisted of only a cheap Raleigh Pioneer […]

  • Police in Leicestershire and Real World Split Testing

    2015-08-25

    Here’s a quick interesting thing. I’ve been wondering about whether or not anyone does split testing in the real world with physical things. For those that don’t know, split testing is where you do an experiment where you change something for a proportion of people to see how they react and measure the effect. If […]

  • More Normal

    2015-01-07

    "The bananas might be in a bag on the trampoline"

  • Some days of normal

    2015-01-06

    Hah. Brilliant. So a good friend of mine posts on Facebook that she is partaking in #21daysofnormal: an attempt to open up the reality of daily life and not hide behind the perfect, filtered life that we probably all post to social media most days. “glamorous, Instagrammed photos of the little special bits of our […]