Just back from an excellent day at the Design of Understanding. Durrell Bishop ended his talk with a quiet plea for designers to spend more time making ordinary things better. Which, when I think about it, is a good mission statement for GDS.
still still broken
I know you can't tell from this picture but trust me, still broken. This is becoming weird. Have they not noticed? Is it that hard to fix? Is it an ARG?
things I think about
This name doesn't work. Your brain looks ahead of the sense and assumes there's a rhyme in there somewhere - it's looking for 'spude dude'. When it's not there the cognitive brakes spin you out.
It should be called Spud Buddy. Or Potato Mate.
general lessons from association football
Two quotes from The Numbers Game (which is sort of like Moneyball for football)
"Hire with care but integrate deliberately and fast."
"Often only desperation, marginality and a lack of money can create the conditions that support innovation."
things that have happened
A small mental collection I have: Posters Caused By Things That Have Happened.
I first noticed it at one of those storage places, like Big Yellow Storage. There was a poster on the wall warning you of all the things you were not allowed to do in your storage unit. Sleep, run a business, keep goats, grow mushrooms. And I realised that the poster was really a record of all the things that people must once have done, which then needed to be banned.
The signs at the Grindleford Station Cafe are the same. Every incident causes a sign.
I mention it because Chris pointed out another on twitter:
