Social Network Analysis

We invited the brilliant Elisa Bellotti from The Mitchell Centre in Manchester to talk to us about social network analysis. Their work is Continue reading →

Designing with people

Design research is usually understood to be about developing some kind of new artefact. These artefacts can be objects like Continue reading →

What is design for?

I ran a seminar session this week based on Ken Friedman’s well known Design Studies article of 2003 – Theory Continue reading →

Metaphor-ology

Much of what designers do involves generating and deploying metaphors. The way we make sense of the world around us Continue reading →

Involving other people

I’ll be presenting at the PhD by Design conference this week at Goldsmiths. I’m in a strand called ‘How to Continue reading →

Bad infinity

The idea of an endless universe is profoundly disorienting because infinite things are confusing. It seems fair to say that Continue reading →

The External Mind

One of the main topics of my research is externalisation. By this I mean, how people put what they’re thinking Continue reading →

Multi-modal transcript

Transcribing interviews as part of research used to be relatively simple. Social science has been doing this for decades – Continue reading →