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Meaningful online

"We need to build an app." Maybe you do, and maybe you don't. Take a few steps back and think…

4 years ago

The Wizard of Pollution

We often don't associate plastic with the oil industry. But it's a massive market, and one that Big Oil is…

4 years ago

Big Plastic

I hate single-use plastic, and how its waste is a problem pushed down to the consumer. It's where legislation is…

4 years ago

Big Oil Playbook

Our energy supplier Green has gone bust. So we've been automatically assigned as a new customer to... Shell. I'm not…

4 years ago

Keeping Afloat

It's easier to keep your idea afloat when you can see others working to keep their ideas afloat too. You…

4 years ago

It’s a bit of a problem…

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem..." wrote G.K. Chesterton. Defining…

4 years ago

If you really knew me…

You'd know that I once appeared on a TV comedy show in a police line-up of bald men... This is…

4 years ago

Doing to vs Doing with

How shall we do our research and product building? Shall we do it to the users? Or do it with…

4 years ago

Service Recipe

Is it - A) - Our context is totally unique, therefore the solution required will be bespoke or B) Another…

4 years ago

Reaching our User

It's one thing to contact users who are using your product. But how do you contact those that should be…

4 years ago

Open Working

Surprisingly, the concept of working openly is new for some people. Maybe it's because we were told at school to…

4 years ago

Falling out of the process

Universal Credit: 25% of applicable people don't apply. Or rather - a lot of those people started the process of…

4 years ago

Face Mute

"My bandwidth isn't great today so I'm going to face mute..." This Thinkery was captured live during a series of…

4 years ago

Confidence

Where do you get your confidence from? Practice? An inbuilt sense? Reassurance from others? And what leaks your confidence? I…

4 years ago

How do we reach our users?

Thinking again about communications, it's easy to forget that your audience may only be open to certain modes of communication.…

4 years ago

Our communications

There are two sides to every communication. And one of those sides is usually pretty ropey. In tricky circumstances, I've…

4 years ago

Make your website work harder

Who isn't guilty of putting up a website and then completely forgetting about it. It takes so much effort to…

4 years ago

The story of a journey

If in doubt, tell a story. Even better - visualise the story. When I try to think through how to…

4 years ago

Spinning wheel of destiny

At the end of the 10 week product definition course run by We Are Open co-op, it became time for…

4 years ago

So frustrating…

Isn't it so frustrating to be taken outside your digital comfort zone? Luckily, all the questions you'll ever need to…

4 years ago

Talk about a backlog…

When I'm live-drawing my ear is often pulled towards those little tickly comments. Someone dribbles a little humour on a…

4 years ago

MOSCOW

No, not that Moscow; this MoSCoW - or more helpfully, MoSCoW is a way of prioritising user stories into 4…

4 years ago

Star Star Wish

When you wish upon a star… this illustration has nothing to do with that. This is a handy little method…

4 years ago

Where’s the treasure?

Unmoderated user testing allows you to go wider with your tests as they can be performed at the users convenience,…

4 years ago