World of Innovation #Fail
I've been meaning to write this since seeing Kerry Bodine talk at the SoDA Annual General Meeting in Las Vegas last month. Kerry is Forrester's Customer E...
5 minutes on Ideation
Made by Many is a founding member of InterTech, a new professional network for LGBT+ people in the UK tech sector, and last week it held the first in a se...
We've launched Made by Many in New York
Big news: we launched Made by Many in New York this week. We’ve had clients and projects in ‘merica for a while, and this gave us the final shove required...
We're hiring designers in London and New York
We're looking for a talented digital product designer who can create excellent user interfaces. At Made by Many we help companies to innovate and take new...
From meetup to mini conference
We've been absolutely thrilled by the success of Front-end London and have had some incredible speakers over the last 8 meetups. However with our events s...
Wonderful machines and ragged humans
In Cyprus, last week, I read 1.23 books. I know the decimal thanks to my Kindle, and I enjoyed 23% of Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty thanks to Isaac’s reco...
Sketch versus ...
A few of us at Made by Many have been trialling a design application called Sketch. Designed by a small company, Bohemian Coding, Sketch is a vector based...
The ultimate skinner-box: Candy Crush Saga
The idea that Facebook is a giant skinner-box designed to train us to share more and more has been around a long time. Recently, I have become hopelessly ...
How To Make The Right Product
A more accurate title would be: ‘What it means to make the right product, some reasons things goes wrong, and suggestions on doing things better’. Not as ...
We are hiring: Ruby Developer
We are looking for a great technologist to join our team.
We believe that technology is not invisible to users, but rather integral to how people feel ab...
Digital product innovation is all we do
What gets us excited is making products that are used habitually by millions of people; things that last and grow, and become indispensable; that are sust...
Vine fame
I've been fascinated by Vine over the last month. It's growing at a phenomenal rate, but what is it that's really making Vine sky-rocket at the moment?
From hunch to code: Allele, a rapid-er prototyping framework
The market is awash with rapid prototyping tools.
They claim to empower us with the tools necessary to validate our ideas without ever investing in co...
Lean Strategy in 3 blows
This is a post about strategy, written with these assumptions in mind:Lots of marketing strategists are increasingly interested in product innovation.More...
The work instinct
Recently, I've been learning about the nature of work and Organisational Design (OD) from Naomi Stanford, who has a number of books and an excellent blog ...
The rise of the killer robots
I'm really lucky to be at TED Global in Edinburgh this week. (It's a tough job, but someone had to do it...)
And I've just seen one of the scarie...
Innovation fatigue
I'm suffering from Innovation fatigue.
All the book launches, fastidious processes and sales pitches have turned something that wa...
It's not magic, it's software
I was recently lucky enough to watch Nick Law of R/GA deliver a talk entitled, 'Innovation is not a big idea' at the Mirren Conference in New ...