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Article — 7 November 2016 — 1,092 words

The perils of the ‘launch and leave’ approach to project management

Architecture — Digital — User experience

Hulme Crescents

Our perspective on how a digital product should be managed is strongly influenced by our background and our role. That certainly helps explain some of the difficult conversations I have had over the years.

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Article — 14 October 2016 — 964 words

The vital lesson digital designers must learn from architecture’s postwar mistakes

Digital — User experience

Elephant and Castle statue

Like the mid-century modernists, today’s digital designers are creating the future. Some digital designers are making the same fundamental mistakes.

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Article — 23 March 2014 — 1,293 words

Can web design really learn from brutalist architecture?

Architecture — User experience — Web

As a web designer with an interest in brutalist architecture, I was fascinated to read an article about what web designers can learn from brutalism. But perhaps instead of taking inspiration, perhaps the lessons are in what web designers should avoid.

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Article — 20 May 2013 — 337 words

Tayside House demolition

Architecture

One of Dundee’s most notable buildings currently undergoing demolition.

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Article — 30 January 2012 — 674 words

Brutalism: Post-War British Architecture

Architecture

I have found myself developing an interest in brutalism, the style of architecture that was predominant in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I have had a slight interest in modern architecture in the past, but I am finding myself increasingly drawn to brutalist structures and other buildings from this era. It is not just the […]

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