red-route.org is the personal website of Malcolm Young.
I always feel I’m not getting enough out of life. This lovely weather - and I didn’t use it. I should recognize that sitting in Hyde Park is as useful as sitting in front of a computer
Clients aren’t stupid. OK, well some of them are. But, much as designers and developers love to think they are cleverer than everyone else…
Imagine you’re going away on holiday. You decide where to go. You book a hotel. You book flights. You decide what you’re going to take. So…
Very often, junior colleagues ask me what they should do in a particular situation. Very often, to the point where I feel like a broken…
I’ve never understood why people think Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is a masterpiece. It’s reached the sacred cow status of an all-time…
Most designers and developers have got their fair share of horror stories about clients finding cruel and unusual ways of mangling the CMS…
There are periods in some software projects when the atmosphere gets very strange. It’s what Sir Alex Ferguson would call “squeaky bum time…
We need new mental models for modern communication methods. Think of instant messages like post-it notes.
Some lessons learned from cycling that can be applied to project management.
So Amazon have released Siri in a box. Big deal. But there’s something faintly disconcerting about it all. As the Guardian’s writer alludes…
I like cover versions. At least I do when they’re doing something interesting with the song. I don’t really see the point of recording…
