Alasdair Monk

25 year old One Direction dropout and designer @GoCardless. http://twitter.com/almonk

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How to solve the ‘sharing huge design files amongst teams’ problem

Or, how I saved my sanity and learned to love BitTorrent

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Building a meeting room booking app in 7 hours

We at GoCardless recently moved into shiny new offices in Angel and with our new expanse of space comes three nice new meeting rooms.

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How a sketch on a napkin changed how the world thought about architecture

The Crystal Palace of Hyde Park in 1851 was a wonder of the Victorian era, but it almost never happened.

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On learning Ruby Motion versus Objective C & Xcode

When in Rome, speak Latin.

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