Faking the future

A couple of weeks ago, my brain was treated to a Pint of Science in the form of a talk by Dr Eileen Gentleman on making body parts. Dr Gentleman whooshed ...

Andy Whitlock   ·   29 May 2013

Lean Bureaucracy

On Wednesday night I was talking to someone that works in innovation for local government. I wont go into too much detail about her position or the organi...

Mike Laurie   ·   24 May 2013

Trade-off curves

I've been learning about trade-off curves recently and they seem pretty useful for learning and making decisions when designing products.

Mike Laurie   ·   21 May 2013

Operational feasibility

Do you make ‘things’? You probably do. So do we — things are brilliant. Okay, you and I are a bit more sophisticated than that; we don’t call them things ...

Andy Whitlock   ·   17 May 2013

Being smart about being lazy

I touched on the concept of considered laziness here and here. It's a term which I'm sure I stole from @higgis, and which has subsequently been very nicel...

Andrew Sprinz   ·   14 May 2013

What happens when everyone blogs?

As you can see, I’ve been given the keys to the Made by Many blog. Like every other employee, I can now write a post here without any censorship. I think ...

Andy Whitlock   ·   7 May 2013

What it takes to be Strategydog

Strategydog has been at Made by Many for two years. In her first blog post she gives us exclusive behind-the-office-door access to her life.

Here...

Strategy Dog   ·   3 May 2013

What we can do with gaps

Gaps (formerly known as 'hackable spaces', a term coined by @conordelahunty) have been cropping up all over the place this week. It started with Ian's exc...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   3 May 2013

Work & Play

Recently I started as a designer at Made by Many and it feels like a good time to take a moment to quickly reflect on my initial 6 weeks and give you my f...

Tom White   ·   2 May 2013

The Ribman & lean streetfood

If you really want to understand the application of Japanese management philosophy beyond its interpretation as Lean Manufacturing, forget about tech star...

Mike Laurie   ·   1 May 2013

IoT

Designing Connected Products

Last week I gave a talk about designing connected products, lean hardware, and the future of a discipline that bridges the physical/digital divide. This i...

Raffi Jacobs   ·   1 May 2013

Deleting Photoshop or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Keynote

After I explained to a friend that I used Keynote to re-design Skype in the classroom, he had a look of confusion. "Can you even design in it?" was h...

Paul Hamilton   ·   1 May 2013

Ideas as excess inventory

Ideas are a critical to the invention, evolution and optimisation of systems of any kind, whether we're talking about organisational change, inventing new...

Mike Laurie   ·   30 April 2013

Write Twice

During discussions on the enduring identity of a prototype the same counterpoint kept cropping up:

You should only write code once.

There's a prev...

Andrew Sprinz   ·   30 April 2013

What I talk about when I talk about prototyping

We spend a lot of time sketching ideas at Made by Many. It's a powerful way to bring ideas to life quickly; to give them an identity and test with an obje...

Andrew Sprinz   ·   24 April 2013

We're hiring: tester

We're looking for an experienced person to work as a tester across a number of projects. Our ideal would be someone who has worked in an agency atmosphere...

Tara Bloom   ·   27 February 2013

We've had the Speaker Pledge, what about the Attendee Pledge?

Lately there has been a lot of discussion around conferences in the tech world and the amount of female representation on the panels. Whilst this has been...

Will Roissetter   ·   4 February 2013

Reimagined ITV homepage goes live

It's required a lot of secrecy here at Made by Many to keep it under wraps, but we're excited that the new ITV homepage went live earlier this week. ...

Adam Morris   ·   16 January 2013