Making Stuff & Making Better
The whole content thing brings up a lot of questions, which will inevitably give us some cool things to work on! What happens when there are more people generating content than there are consuming it?...
View ArticleActivity/Content + Design + Technology = Product
I drew this the other day whilst thinking about the elements and process of making things:
View ArticleFunctional Design + User Experience Design + Aesthetic Design
A few ramblings on design and process… Function: the product does what it was designed to do. Aesthetic: the product feels good aesthetically. User Experience: the product’s functional and aesthetic...
View ArticleManifesto (and a Github experiment)
I rattled off a few quick ideas that I’m thinking could start to form a manifesto. Very incomplete and very early stages. I’m experimenting with something here too. It’s hosted on Github and embedded...
View ArticleEMT: A Theme?
My last post (about the subscription thing, themed around Experiments in Making Things) got me thinking about our work-in-progress manifesto, and how the two fit together. This got me excited about the...
View ArticleMore “Flowy”?
One of the things I like about this blog is that we don’ t need to worry about quality – I can just chuck thoughts, ideas and responses into this little digital melting pot without thinking about an...
View ArticleThe Firehose
I was just thinking about how this blog might change as Fieldwork (new name, woot!) develops. Currently, it’s all about conversations between us, but over time it’ll probably be something that we link...
View ArticleFieldwork Toolkit: Key Concepts
Noted down some general ideas about the Fieldwork Toolkit – a first draft of the key concepts behind it, based on a lot of the stuff we’ve talked about. Embedded here from Github – so as always, clone,...
View ArticleGetting My Head Around An Ecosystem in Flux
I’ve been thinking about the Really Simple website, which desperately needs a refresh. I’ve got a few projects in the pipeline, and few existing things on the site that I think would work well under...
View ArticleA Sense of Adventure
From a review of a new Lemony Snicket novel: Will any reader get all these references? Of course not, but that’s part of the joy of the book, the sense that you’re inhabiting a fictional universe whose...
View ArticleBrooklyn Beta 2013 and NYC
Loz and I went to New York last week, to attend Brooklyn Beta and related things. Here’s a plotted account, and a couple of thoughts I brought away from it… Tuesday Met the folks at Harvest when they...
View ArticleMake Time, Start Small, Don’t Wait
As a small studio with a lot of client work coming in, we’ve been pretty useless at getting our own projects anywhere near the todo list recently. We know this, of course, but a recent trip really...
View ArticleApps for Good
I recently attended the Apps for Good launch event for seven new mobile applications conceived by, and developed with, school pupils from across the UK. Pupils at Wick High School in Scotland created...
View ArticleWelcoming the Next Phase
What a week! It’s been hectic at Fieldwork HQ for a few weeks now, and I can’t remember the last time I had time to think about writing a blog post. Anyway, this feels like a great time to get back...
View ArticleTime for Change
These are exciting times. Change is afoot, people are dreaming up clever ways to improve things, and a movement is building from the grass roots. There’s plenty of resistance to change too, though. The...
View ArticleMake Work
As we wrap up a huge project, which has absorbed the whole studio for the last few months, we have the first chance in what feels like a long time to take stock and think about the future. We’ve always...
View ArticleA Reason D’Être
When we started Fieldwork three years ago, it was an umbrella for anything that Loz and I wanted to do collaboratively: client work, personal projects, big greasy Koffee Pot breakfasts, anything. It...
View ArticleCreating the new landing page for See+Do
We’ve been working on See+Do over the past few months, to let us add new cities to the platform. As part of this effort we needed to add a new landing page. I wanted to create something interesting...
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