Hello, I’m Cam — a co-founder and product person at Dawson Andrews. For as long as I’ve been involved in websites, CMS’s have been the vain of my life. Clunky, grey, uninspiring, unadaptive pieces of junk that only stressed me out. — … Until Craft CMS came along. I never thought the day would arrive where I willingly took time to write up praise for a CMS, but here I go. Craft CMS is simple, minimalistic, agile and has every capability a modern CMS framework needs. Over the past ten years we…

This year I’ve been inspired by a handful of amazing people. Rather than send them a Christmas card I decided to drench them in 🙌🏼 on the internet by pointing out why I think they’re so badass. I feel like modern media is predominantly pessimistic. It is far too easy…

Having worked with product teams of all shapes and sizes we’ve become familiar with a huge variance of working approaches. Making product decisions is a balance of logic and gut — our approach across-board is to take as much gut out as possible and rely on the data in every…

Why the world’s biggest football club is missing key digital product opportunities and partying like it’s 1999. Jordan Moore spent a bit of time re-thinking how manchesterunited.com might look in 2018. It has been a difficult time to be a Manchester United fan, after enjoying decades of success under Sir…

My mother loves to tell the world and its wife about my escapades. On topics such as travel, weather, my health — she’s a seasoned professional. When it comes to what I actually do, ‘internet stuff’ doesn’t quite cut it anymore. …

My mind wanders a lot. With our increasing reliance on mobile; we are fundamentally different as a generation to anything that has come before us. While for a long time I’ve pointed the finger and tut-tutted at those ‘so caught up in technology’, I now notice I’m arguably as bad as anyone. In fact, I’m…

Robert M. Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has been one of my favourite reads of the last ten years. Quick wiki excerpt; In the book, the Narrator describes the “Romantic” approach to life of his friend, John Sutherland, who chooses not to learn how to maintain…

Loyalty is built on feeling. The greatest brands understand this. They don’t communicate by logic. They don’t aim to convince you. They aim to consistently make you feel something. The Economist know this. They know that they don’t sell paper. They sell the feeling of knowing. This is why they always include a range of perspectives. This is…

Routine is easy. It’s good in-fact. It makes life a lot easier to sail through. The risk is that we keep sailing without any contemplation. Sailing means reverting to default. Default is often the parts of us that we don’t quite love. Laziness. Selfishness. Or perhaps, just a lack of thoughtfulness which produces those parts of us we like — generosity, kindness, understanding. It’s Wednesday and I’ve sailed here.