Cole Peters wants to read

How to keep your curiosity

"I never get wow moments intellectually any more" a friend once complained a year after graduating. Now that I'm a gradstudent, I worry that open minds can creak shut in the pursuit of results. To write this post, I'll ask for tips about maintaining curiosity from the most open-minded and creative people I know. 1 Comment

Stef Lewandowski is considering writing

Resourceful Humans

Seek generalists, be diverse, build a team based on resourceful humans, not human resources. 1 Comment

Stef Lewandowski is considering writing

Ignore your own opinion and listen to people you respect

I've been doing this recently. I ask someone I trust and respect about something, and they sometimes they tell me something that doesn't sit well with me. In the past I'd have disagreed and said "you're wrong", but now I put that to one side, and I really, really, listen. And then sometimes I act based on that listening. Interesting things have been happening… Comment

Stef Lewandowski is considering writing

Give a leg up to the little guy

This is our principle at Makeshift. What does it mean and how are we applying it? Comment

Paul Rissen is considering writing

The Future Role of Information/User Experience Architecture in Large Organisations

The biggie. Ever since taking on a role named 'Information Architect', that title has forever been debated. No one can quite work out what it is, what one does, but they all know that they need one and at the same time don't quite know what to do with them. I've tried to stay out of this debate for so long, but I don't think there's any way I can avoid it for much longer. So this would be my two-pennies-worth on defining the role of an IA/UXA in a large organisation and so on. It's one of those I really should write, but at the same time fills me with dread(!) Comment

Bookmark Nick Marsh published

Why I'm NOT learning to code

Seems like everyone working in internet / software wants to learn to code. Apart from the effort / time required to get my circa 2006 HTML / CSS skills up to speed, there's a lot of other good reasons why I'm choosing not to learn to code, despite working in a company full of creative hackers. Comment

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Read it: writing.makeshift.io/pieces/why-i-m-not-learning-to-code

Justin Edmund is considering writing

The Currency of Design

What is our deliverable? Should we deal with pixels or deliver ideas? How do we use our "currency" to make our design economy grow? Comment

Justin Edmund is considering writing

A Modern Design Tool

A follow-up to Jason Santa Maria's "A Real Web Design Application," in which I start to describe a tool for designing modern applications and websites. Comment

Cath Richardson is considering writing

Embracing the mundane

When we conceive of new products and services, we want to be Iron Man and make something truly awesome. But sometimes the most interesting opportunities lie in solving the most boring problems. This will be a post about how I learned to love the mundane. Comment

ntlk is considering writing

My writing process

Working on Help Me Write means I'm even more inclined to inspect my own process, and I'm realising that there are obstacles to my writing that can be overcome using the same techniques I use for idea generation and problem solving in other areas Comment

Reuben Armstrong is considering writing

Ten Future Predictions From Digital Shoreditch

Plus the ten most ridiculous jargon phrases... Comment

Bookmark Jon Gold published

For the Makeshift blog: Everyone Does Everything: how to work on teams of generalists

At Makeshift I guess we have a bit of a weird team mix-up - Stef, Ntlk, Tony & I all design & we all code. How on earth can you divvy up work amongst such craziness? Comment

Read it: medium.com/words-about-design/12e0882c51d1

Jon Gold is considering writing

My design process

This is my design process. There are many like it but this one is mine. Comment

Nick Marsh is considering writing

The evolution of product design

I'll write about how the idea of product design emerged in the middle of the twentieth century, how it has changed, and what the emergence of digital product design means, and where it sits on the overal trajectory of design evolution Comment