I apologise for not updating my blog as much as I’d like to, but recently I’ve been rethinking whether or not I need a blog, whether or not things like medium, substack, twitter, youtube and other platforms have actually disrupted blogging. I am intending to move hosting, or just push everything to a free hosting […]

For many years web site owners may have had to go to expensive web designers, web developers, e-commerce specalists to craft their next winning website. Whilst this trend isn’t really going away soon, there is a trend that suggests using no code tools may offer a cheap, fast and effective way of prototyping, testing and […]

Innovation and invention. From the outset, they look very similar; and often the words are used interchangability – but is there a difference? What is innovation? Innovation is great ideas realised. Dr Nick Spencer, Northumbria University It’s the churn of creation, development and implementation of a new product, process, service or intervention with the aim […]

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 […]

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 […]

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?

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]