Links for each UXBristol 2020 Short Talk By Nic Price on 22 July 2020 — 1 min read Last week was UXBristol’s 10th birthday 🎉 The five talks on Friday morning were all excellent and well worth watching, and the great news is they’re available for free over on YouTube. You can watch all 3 hours and 10 minutes in one go, start 17 minutes in to see the Introduction to UXBristol from... More
Working week – first week of February in bullet points By Nic Price on 11 February 2020 — 1 min read Last week’s notes (a little late, but here they are): The first week of February saw the start of a new discovery under the Future Farming and Countryside Programme umbrella. Despite my and other people’s efforts to avoid it, it did feel like jumping from one moving train to another. A weekend isn’t long enough to... More
There will never be a Storm In A Teacup By Nic Price on 10 February 2020 — 1 min read A notification on my phone on Saturday read: “BBC News – Storm Ciara to bring severe gales to UK” This headline got me wondering if there will ever be a Storm Gale. And what other names are and aren’t acceptable. According to this Wired article, we’ve been naming storms since 2015, when the UK and... More
Maintenance mode (while getting back up and blogging) By Nic Price on 17 January 2020 — 1 min read Tap tap. Is this thing on? It seems to be. As I remember reasons to blog, I also remember I still haven’t found or fixed a couple things: One is a way to share a few bookmarks with my own added comments and tags – like we once did with Delicious. Simon suggested Dan Hon... More
The scenic cycling route from Newport Station to ONS By Nic Price on 14 January 2020 — 1 min read Cycle Route 3463253 – via Bikemap.net – Open Route in Bikemap App This is the scenic cycling route from Newport Station to ONS (and IPO). It runs alongside the River Usk and goes right past the Transporter Bridge. I was lucky enough to work over at ONS for a couple of years which meant commuting... More
Calling time – giving names to eras By Nic Price on 1 January 2020 — 1 min read (I tweeted this last week, and realised it’s the closest thing to a blog post I’ve written for a while, so I thought I’d turn it into one.) We’re entering the twenties. The 2020s. Will they be roaring like a century ago? In Western society the Roaring Twenties was a time of possibility and progress,... More
And… we’re back By Nic Price on 5 March 2017 — 1 min read I’m going to start blogging again. There. I’ve said it. Out loud. On here. So it’s public, even if it’s not going viral. Amongst other things, I plan to write about sharing, listening, making time, paying attention, noticing, designing systems, and information architecture. First up, I’ve updated to using the WordPress 2017 Theme – it plays... More
A short talk I gave about systems thinking at UX Bristol 2014 By Nic Price on 29 January 2015 — 1 min read UX Bristol 2014 Short Talk: Nic Price – Systems Thinking in 3 Minutes from Bristol Usability Group on Vimeo. Okay so it’s nearer 8 minutes. In which I talk about elephants and bicycles… world view, mental models, Russ Ackoff’s definition of a system, and what happens when you change the boundaries of a system. For... More
Prototype kitchen By Nic Price on 3 May 2012 — 1 min read Working in digital product research and design, I can’t remember a project where we didn’t use a prototype in one form or another. I’d not thought about doing it in the house until necessity paved the way – we ran out of time… We’d worked up the eventual kitchen design through various discussions with Sam... More
Projection Hero By Nic Price on 16 December 2011 — 1 min read Projection Hero, a photo by Beatnic on Flickr. I learned to be a projectionist in the early 1980s. Our physics teacher at school, Mr Smith, taught me and a friend. We would practice “lacing up” the film, focusing the lens and switching reels as quickly as possible. We learnt to cut and splice the film to make... More