A summary of the talks I attended at Camp Digital 2018 at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. AND @rxtheatre really is an extraordinary venue, it's like they landed a UFO in it and closed the dome back on top. #CampDigital pic.twitter.com/2a4riLhrG5 — Katherine Rooney (@krooneyrooney) May 2, 2018 Ending It. Emotionally, Responsibly, With Your Business …
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How to add MIDI drums to a Cubase track
A quick guide to adding MIDI drums to a track in Cubase. Works with or without an external MIDI controller. Add an Instrument track, and select HALion Sonic SE. Choose a drum kit using the dropdown in the first channel. Close this window. If you’re using a MIDI controller, make sure that it’s plugged in …
Designs of the Year, and Print in the Digital Age
Here are my highlights from the Designs of the Year exhibition at the London Design Museum. Warka Water A 12-metre tall bamboo tower that gathers water rom the air. About 100 litres of clean drinking water per day. Inspired by lotus leaves and spider’s webs, The project is named after the Warka tree, an Ethipian …
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Sources of insight and inspiration used by GOV.UK Product Managers
A list that came out of a GOV.UK Product Manager community hour I facilitated recently. Blogs Putting people first Inside Intercom Nielsen Norman Mountain Goat software John Cutler Melissa Perri DEV Mind the Product Product Hunt (also, the Product Hunt browser extension) GoSquared Silicon Valley Product Group Pivot Product Hits Books About Face – the …
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What is Service Design?
A service is a thing to help users to achieve a goal. It’s a series of touchpoints to achieve an outcome. e.g. ‘start a business’, ‘learn to drive a car’. A service starts with a need and an idea of the outcome, but no clear idea of how this will be achieved. Service design is …
How to record electric guitar using a Steinberg UR12 and Cubase AI
A quick guide to recording guitar through a Steinberg UR12 in the Cubase AI DAW. I produced this to help other people, and to remind myself in case I ever forget, because the Cubase software is not very intuitive. I’llassume that you’ve plugged and installed in the Steinberg, installed the Cubase AI Software, and opened …
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Don’t worry about starting with a blank canvas
When starting a new project/product job, I used to worry about starting with a blank canvas. Now I’m more alert to the challenges of established systems. Earlier in my career, when starting a new project I’d wonder: Where will I begin? How will I set up the right structures, ways of thinking? In practice I’ve …
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What are the next frontiers in interaction design?
Voice assistants – such as Siri and Alexa – are becoming viable because the accuracy of speech recognition has increased significantly through machine learning. I’m concerned about the political ramifications of the technical underpinnings of voice interfaces. Voice recognition has advanced through access to lots of data, and machine learning. This means that for people …
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Public Service Design – Cross Government Design Meetup 22
Today I attended a Cross Government Design Meetup at the Design Museum in London. Here are some of the highlights I took away. Introduction – Lou Downe “Bad service design is one of the biggest costs to government” In the future, “Services will shape government, not the other way round.” “Transformation will never be done” …
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How might we broaden political discourse and understanding in people age 25-35 in the UK? – Design project from the Design Kit course
This is a writeup of the design project I carried out with Tamsyn Hyatt as part of Ideo and +Acumen’s Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design. Check out the prototype we produced. Inspiration Interviews We spoke to people with a range of political views, and carried out participant observation of their news-consumption activity. We …