Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web If you started today, you would never build what we’ve got. You would build Alphagov. A few design rules for alpha.gov.uk | Alpha.gov.uk – team blog Back in February when we were kicking off the alpha project, we spent the first couple of weeks scouring search [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Fast Path to a Great UX – Increased Exposure Hours For more than 20 years, we’ve known that teams spending time watching users, can see improvements. Yet we still see many teams with regular user research programs that produce complicated, unusable products. We couldn’t understand why, [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Commercial Use of your API – why you should allow it | The London Biker The great thing about letting people make money is that they’ll make you money in return – you don’t have to spend months locked away in an R&D lab – but [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web That’s not my name « We Love Local Government So what are we to do? Firstly, stop getting so het up about how we describe the people who we serve. Secondly, realise that universal names don’t work. Universally decreeing that we must describe everyone as customers [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Why I don’t believe in conspiracy theories | Flip Chart Fairy Tales No-one is in control of the world. The most governments can hope for is to control some parts of it for some of the time. The same is true for leaders of large organisations. [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Sphereless: Hackers, transparency, and the zen of failure But for the hacker, the truth is only what is created -not what is undisputed. Hackers fork code, create new communities, start new websites, run unconferences. If "truth" exists, then it is what emerges, not what is discovered, [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1 The opening up of public data is a vast, complex, never-ending process that encompasses thousands of different actors. It shifts information, power, and responsibilities, in ways that are difficult to [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web A Shiny World: Innovation (and JFDI) If you sit and think that innovation, ideas, changing cultures, suggesting and doing the ridiculous things is not possible, as a leader, that attitude will permutate throughout your organisation. If you decide that whatever suggestion someone makes will receive consideration [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web 10 Reasons CEOs Unwittingly Sabotage Innovation There’s a huge gap between CEOs saying they want their companies to innovate and actually acting in a way consistent with what they say. [...] Here’s my TOP TEN reasons why not. [...]Innovation sparks dissonance and discomfort. Innovation is all [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Sphereless: Tis the Season To Be Open In other words, it is not enough to use transparency to justify decisions already made, and to prevent bad decisions being made in future through the threat of later accountability. Openness in data needs to go hand-in-hand with an [...]