manchester, england. think big.
I re-shared this on Twitter earlier today and it got a whole lot of love with Mancs and those Mancs at heart. Deserved a post up here as it perfectly sums up my second home.Read more
my nux2 top ten
Last week I attended NUX2 Manchester UX, Design & Psychology Conference. Here are my favourite top ten takeaways.Read more
mobile conversion and headset hotties
Following all the excitement over Apple’s iOS7 and new iPhone releases across the media and Twittersphere this week, it seemed even more timely to head down to my first Conversion Thursday – where the hot topic was ‘Optimising e-commerce conversion across devices’.Read more
go design this, local artist wins design competition
A Manchester based artist beat some exceptional talent in a recent competition to design a flyer for Greater Manchester’s free what’s on recommendation service Go See This run by The Audience Agency. The competition encouraged people to submit artwork inspired by the theme “Great events in Greater Manchester and beyond”. The winner, Meha Hindocha, is originally from Kenya,…Read more
the many faces of manchester day
It was that time of year again on Sunday… Manchester Day Parade. Once more it was fantastic to see the diverse communities of Manchester taking to the city streets. You can see a small taster of the event over on Flickr.Read more
an intj’s guide to social media
I recently went through the process of Myers-Briggs profiling. For those unfamiliar with Myers-Briggs it is a form of psychometric testing developed during World War II when it was believed that “knowledge of personality preferences would help women who were entering the industrial workforce for the first time to identify the sort of war-time jobs that would be “most…Read more
live blog: digital r&d in the arts forum, 6th february 2013
Morning readers and welcome to my first ever attempt at a live blog… coming to you direct from the Digital R&D in the Arts Forum taking place at Manchester Town Hall. Apologies upfront for fat fingered typos, grammatical howlers and nonsensical sentences – I promise a somewhat re-edited version of this post after play has…Read more
going mobile
This week I was out and about attending a Mobile Marketing seminar organised by Manchester based integrated marketing and digital agency, Access. As well as providing delegates with an excellent breakfast, cookies and cups of tea they also shared their insight into the best ways to take your business “mobile” – all with a bit…Read more
thoughts aboard the 21:00 from london euston
***Drafted on the 21:00 from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, 16th January 2013*** The clock ticks past midnight, they’ve started handing out the complimentary chocolaty snacks, the lights shut off on the station outside the window… It certainly wasn’t the highlight of my week but being trapped aboard a severely delayed Virgin Train just south of Stockport…Read more
mega manchester meet-ups
Was your New Year’s resolution to meet new people? Get out more? Or just to have more fun? A friendly reminder e-mail (which also reminded me I’ve hit 30 – cheers for that!) from Meetup the other day got me thinking about who’ll be hanging out where in 2013. So here’s a little pick of some of…Read more
socialBedia 