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Design consultant, writer and speaker on design, technology & innovation About me, my writing, events, projects and references 

Books, citations, references and other projects

Forthcoming
The Future Of Community Chapter on 'Virtual communities vs. Physical realities' for forthcoming book The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto Press). Expected October 2008.

Work-related

Book: Winners and Losers in a Troubled Economy

See deadicated website Winners and Losers in a Troubled Economy (cScape Ltd: 2008) and its page on Amazon. Co-authored with Richard Sedley.

View my related presentation 'Extending Value in a Troubled Economy' arguing that we need to innovate in online service design—not just in online marketing.


Expert advisor on
The Site Speaks For Itself


Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself, edited by Molly E. Holzschlag and Bruce Lawson (Peer information, 2002)

 
What Is Web Design? What is Web Design?, Nico Macdonald (Rotovision 2004)

 
Information Architecture For Designers Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring websites for business success, Peter Van Dijck (Rotovision, 2003).

Credits
 
The Enemies Of Progress The Enemies of Progress: Dangers of Sustainability (Societas 2008) by Austin Williams

Citations and references

Cited in The Play Ethic, Pat Kane (Macmillan, 2003). Have been written about in numerous places (mostly positive!) including Usability News, in spiked and in IT Week.

Other projects

Spiked Since its inception in 2000, I have been the design director of spiked. And for the last three years I have been on the organising committee of The Battle of Ideas festival.