Apple iWatch Design Predictions 12 Mar 2013 | 12:36 am

The First Internet Company In Shoreditch 4 Feb 2013 | 08:21 pm

In 1994 I started the first Internet company, Realtime Anywhere, in Shoreditch, what is now, 20 years later the center of London’s ‘Tech City’. What was London’s Internet center like then and how has ...

Skunk Puppying: dealing with legal threats with cute animals. 19 Oct 2012 | 07:02 pm

I registered designskunkworks.com, thinking it would be a good name for an Internet product company, not realizing that Skunkworks was a real, trademarked facility run by Lockheed Martin or that you c...

5 principles of invisible web design 16 Sep 2012 | 07:16 pm

The term design is associated with visual things, we design magazines, products and buildings but not music or food and this visual association has carried across when people speak about web design. B...

Why Neil Armstrong Really Mattered to Me 26 Aug 2012 | 03:03 am

In 1972, when I was 6 years old my grandfather gave me a very special gift, shown above. The autograph of the first man on the moon. My grandfather met Neil Armstrong, who had Scottish roots, at a din...

Short Take: The Minimalist Design of This is My Jam 22 Mar 2012 | 10:58 pm

(Roy Plumbley on the virtual desert Island he created for Desert Island Disks) Thousands of apps try to embed themselves into the successful ecosystem of bigger social networks by Tweeting or adding t...

Use Case Study House #1 - A house designed like a web application 21 Jan 2012 | 04:43 am

User Experience House Design Since I’m both an architect and a web product person, I thought it would be fun to design a building the way that web applications are. Web Design vs Building & Product De...

Internet Pawn 6 Jan 2012 | 03:11 am

For me, there is no startup that gloms onto the depressing zeitgeist more wretchedly than Borro which follows mockney Wonga into the foggy world of dodgy debt - the very thing that got us into this me...

I Used to Love Trains 20 Dec 2011 | 11:34 am

I used to love trains, in secret I think that I became an architect because I spent so much time building infrastructure for my model railway set, as a kid. Having watched trains crawl along at the sp...

Tech Crunch 13 Oct 2011 | 05:31 pm

We are experiencing a tech boom during a financial crisis. Not just a mere slump but what threatens to be a continuation of global financial meltdown that started with sub-prime mortgages in the US an...