Healthcare Workers are seeing Covid-19 patients without the appropriate protective equipment. A group of us from Manchester and Liverpool are sourcing materials, producing PPE and connecting small scale manufacturers directly with healthcare workers and centrally with hospital procurement teams across the North West, UK. To help get protective equipment visors,
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6 months, 2 Royal Enfield Bullets, 65 near deaths, 1 hospitalisation, 2 CT scans, 1682 cups of chai & 25,000km of ground covered. I didn’t know Maz before I reached India. I do now. Here are the best (and worst) bits.
Read moreA few months back I moved on from Patchwork—a health-tech startup that’s bringing flexible working to healthcare. When I joined as its product lead, we were at 1 NHS Trust. Just shy of 2 years later and the company is fast approaching 20—double digit marketshare. It has
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This was an identity idea for an eco-friendly home builder. Cushy never got to see the light of day so sharing it here with your lovely eyes.
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After a few years away from the graphics editor, I dusted off my old copy of Sketch to make a logo for a thing. Chuffed I have an excuse to use a doggo in a logo. Need @andy88jones to help me with kerning. He has a friend called Kern. Here
Read moreAfter 2 years I’m moving on from Patchwork to join Ideal—where we’re building gorgeous, eco-friendly homes that don’t cost our planet.
Read moreOne of the things I’m piss poor at is stakeholder engagement—enabling everyone see tradeoffs the way I can. Sadly the problem exacerbates as your company scales. Helpful to see Chris Thewell speaking at the UX Crunch last night. On the dial ask What are we optimising for? Unpack
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Just over 2 years ago I was mid way through a 12 day solo trek over the Western Himalayas in Ladakh, the far north of India. Something happened that’s stuck with me ever since.
Read moreIt’s more than difficult to explain what it’s like when your senses collide with Asia; the sounds, the smells, the sights. I sampled sounds from India’s roaring cities, to chanting in Bangladesh, nature’s orchestra in Vietnam, to the bells of Himalayan horses as a way to
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A renewed appreciation for life, helmets and the wonderful people of India 🇮🇳
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Surprises, agonies and insights from a 10 day Vipassana meditation in Chennai, India.
Read moreFor the last few days I've been hanging with Andreas from Sweden. This is a photo of him pulling a silly face. He is a big, kind, larger than life character. He plays the guitar, takes jaw-dropping photos and wears a Batman cap. His voice is deep in tone and
Read moreTrekked over to the other side of Hanoi to Bún chả Hương Liên — where Obama and Joe Biden came for Bún Chả (noodles, greens and bbq pork strips in a f-u-c-k-i-n-g sensational soup). The lady pictured top left came to sit opposite me. She spoke exceptionally good English. She pointed
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📋🏃🏽 written on the move, typos and all I just got back from Koh Rong – an island off of the south west coast of Cambodia - and I'm en route to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It's comical how far some of the coach drivers stretch the definition of a
Read moreIt’s easy to rest on the assumption that costs are only monetary. In product design, this misses an important point — costs are everywhere: Waiting for a webpage to load is a cost.Typing in your card details is a cost.Figuring out whether to trust a company you’ve
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