2020 has not turned out the way anyone had expected so far. Like so many others, all of our big plans for this year have unfortunately been put on hold. But let’s not pretend the Coronavirus has been just an inconvenience, it has been devasting to many.

After six weeks since I ran the London Marathon 2019, I thought it would be a good time to write down some thoughts that I have since that great day.

Tomorrow I will (hopefully) be running the 2019 London Marathon. To say that the event has taken over my life for the last 7 months is a little bit of an understatement.

I’m absolutely delighted to be speaking at this year’s UX Cambridge. After attending the first event in 2011, UX Cambridge has been one of my favourite UX design conferences over the years. This now having the added bonus as I am now a resident of Cambridge since 2015 and I can now walk to the venue.

Next month, I will be running a workshop with Anglia Ruskin’s Reactor team. The ambition of the workshop will be to explore Gamification techniques in order to help solve local problems to Cambridge.

Growing up in a restaurant, I spent a lot of my childhood in our industrial kitchen. Whilst our new home is being renovated, we have been forced to rent a property. Luckily the kitchen in this temporary home is huge, much like the industrial kitchens I am so used to.

It has been quite sometime since my last blog post. This has been largely due to some real life changing events in my personal life if I am being honest. Firstly, I went self employed in February of this year (2015). This had been on my mind for a long, long time (4 years to be exact) but only took the plunge this year when things felt right.

Been some time since I last blogged. In fact this is the first time this year. It’s been a real busy time for me working with Transport for London. A lot has happened.

So it was with great honour to be invited to talk at “Digital People in Peterborough” event. My talk, “What The Hell Do Users Know - Why we should accept we are all experience designers” will talk about design as a tool for problem solving. I will be giving some examples of my work with TfL and the BBC.

I’m a big, big music fan. I first witnessed a rave that had pitched up near my home when I was in my early teens. By lying to my parents that I was staying at A friend’s and my friend doing the same, I went to my first rave, the Pleasuredome at 14 or 15 years of age. Looking back, it was a terrible thing to do that was really irresponsive of kids that should’ve known better.

I really am loving the fact we have so many screens to work with and talk of many new ones that are going to come along in the not so distant future. Some of the things we thought belonged only within Minority Report or Bladerunner are slowly becoming part of normal life. Mobile and tablet viewports are now well established alongside the grand-daddy of all screens, desktop. IpTV is now becoming the latest addition to this Galacticos line up of ways we able to interact with data that is now being piped to these devices quicker than we could have imagined.