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 ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...