Thoughts & Notes to a future Multidisiplinary Innovation student Since completing my Masters in Multidisciplinary Innovation at Northumbria University (link) back in 2018; I’ve been approached by prospective students asking me – What is the course like? And of course, the more interesting question; is the MDI course worth it? Since completing the course; I’ve had a number of times to reflect back on […]
So, what should you look for when picking an agency to build my website or app? Recently, I had a conversation with a client who wanted to build an app, and was bamboozled by the options, didn’t know who to trust, who could do a good job, or knew what they were selling; or could spot any warning signs before picking an agency to build their idea. It was dishearting, I […]
Movies where the action hero is above the material makes me want to switch it off I’m not exactly sure who started this trend, but I’m not a fan of action films where the hero seems to be above the material he/she is in. I’m talking about movies where the hero is talking out of the side of his/her mouth, cutting one liners all the time, makes snide or snarky comments […]
Charlies Angels (2019) – Review Charlies Angels (2019), directed by Elizabeth Banks, was an action reboot / remake of the 1970s TV classic of the same name and a series of movies from the early 2000’s that starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu respectively. Whilst the former two movies from the 2000’s were tongue in cheek, mixed comedy […]
Single responsibility can be a real headache! Single responsibility apps are a headache to code, to remember, to even parse visually; when it comes to simple apps — isn’t it just easier to keep it simple, stupid?
How SwiftUI can change the way you write views I’ve been experimenting recently with SwiftUI, whilst I’m not great at it; I really appreciate the fact that its now much easier to layout views without all the un-necessary constraints which usually end up breaking. Further, it seems to be much easier to support bigger devices, landscape mode and yes, even dark mode. Whilst there […]
Swift CoreData is still painful to use Recently I decided to try and learn a bit of Core data from the ground up. I’m not familiar with all the aspects of Core Data, however, since starting to program with Core Data I remembered why I hated it so much. Its really painful to setup, use or understand why things work the way […]
Is the goal of service design in the public sector to get to more yeses? Over the past two or so years the public sector has seen an increase in service designers. One only needs to look at the influx of service designers in Leeds and other areas where they are looking at services in Pensions, and other verticals. Given that service design works with the idea of placing the […]
5-G, trees and Occam’s razor So I overheard a conversation recently where someone was connecting the dots between the increase felling of trees and the creation of a 5-G network; the idea being that 5-G’s biggest issue is that trees block or interfere with the signal. Now I don’t know if this statement is true or not, thats not my […]
Innovation is hard to sell, but is necessary for growth Lately I’ve been thinking about innovation as a career path; having completed a Masters in the area and spent over a year helping businesses and SMEs innovate, clarify thinking and helped identify near-term and long-term goals, I’ve thought how do consultants sell innovation? By all accounts, I’ve found innovation hard to sell. It’s intangible and […]
