Nov 20, 2016How to protect your online communicationsThe Draft Communications Data Bill, aka “Snoopers’ Charter”, has passed the House of Lords. There is nothing stopping it from becoming law in the UK. This legislation makes extremely invasive eavesdropping and data collection legal. It legalizes direct hacking of devices (computers, phones, whatever), mandatory metadata collection by all ISPs…Privacy3 min readPrivacy3 min read
Aug 2, 2016On BrandA question I am often asked is how does one choose a great name for a startup. I have a few simple heuristics for picking a “good” name: Be pronounceable Be able to register a domain which contains the word(s) Be something I’m comfortable using Be something my customers are…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Published in UX Collective·May 9, 2016What it takes to launch an appLast week I launched my first iPhone app: Colordot. I’ve been launching products for almost 10 years and I expected this app to roughly take a month to build, start to finish. It took four. This is the story about the mistakes, breaks, successes, and all the gory detail involved…Design9 min readDesign9 min read
