David BurtonSeeing HiroshimaYesterday was the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Peace Museum there in 2016. I wrote…Aug 6, 2020Aug 6, 2020
David BurtonExplain your @ — @idiotgrace@idiotgrace has been my @ for some time. I’m not sure why it seemed good to me back in 2009, but last year, as I hit the 10-year mark of…Mar 1, 2020Mar 1, 2020
David BurtonAlongsiders Weeknotes: Episode 1I’ve been thinking about weeknotes for a while, inspired by different people (but especially people working in local government in the UK)…Dec 11, 2019Dec 11, 2019
David BurtonPeople Aren’t Browsers: Why We Have a PDF Problem in the NGO SectorNGOs love PDFs. Almost every social change project I’ve worked on in the last 9 years, across every sector, has created, as one of its…May 9, 2019May 9, 2019
David BurtonDesigning a chatbot for civic engagementThis is a story all about how we made a (prototype) chatbot to help Cambodians engage with their local government, what we learned, and…Apr 17, 2019Apr 17, 2019
David BurtonThe writer gets over himself: finding a good tone of voice in NGO communicationsLearning to write in your organisation’s voice is hugely important if you’re an NGO communications professional. I’ve been creating a lot…Oct 10, 2016Oct 10, 2016
David BurtonThe good cynic: getting startup stuff done by asking awkward questionsI was recently part of a planning meeting for a hackathon. I love hackathons. The idea of getting everyone together in a room to do awesome…Aug 7, 2016Aug 7, 2016
David BurtonPost-Dignity Design and how to avoid it in international development UXA great piece of longform writing was published at Real Life last week, coining a term I think is incredibly important to tech companies…Aug 1, 20161Aug 1, 20161