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Last week I focused almost entirely on AI, this issue is a deliberate change of subject. Apart from a mention the coming weeks' BIID sessions, there is no AI in it at all.
It is about direction instead. Over the course of a year I watch a good many design businesses at close quarters, and...
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I use AI every day. It drafts, sorts, checks and summarises. It hasn’t made my weeks shorter, but it does allow me to achieve - without exaggeration - three times as much, and I recommend designers use it to boost both their productivity and the quality of their work. I am not writing as ...
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There is a particular energy to the last quarter of the year: enough time left for a final sweep of the to-do list, and enough distance from January to settle next year's plan calmly, well before the panic of new year's resolutions sets in.
This newsletter is also about the unglamorous p...
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Last Monday I sat at a round table at Decorex and ran the same fifteen-minute session on positioning four times over, it helped hone my thinking and this week's newsletter contains the written version.
It runs as one argument in three parts. The blog asks whose problem it is when the wr...
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My Decorex presentation is packed (a throwback to the good old days of double-sided tape and superglue), and wardrobe has finally produced style direction for the event.
When this hits your inbox, I will be on a train heading south from Edinburgh.
The recurring message of this week’s ne...
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This is the 40th issue this year, and overall, the 90th issue of this newsletter. It is really good to be back to full strength.
September was a perfect storm: moving house and launching a new course, with the normal month's workload on top. When I look around, I see that the people who s...
I am writing this at the tail end of what can only be described as an essay crisis, and tomorrow the essay gets handed in. On Monday 28 September, the Interior Design Practice System launches.
It is 80 lessons across 14 modules, and it follows the stages of the design process from first enquiry t...
It is another short issue this week, and next week too.
In the next fortnight I will be focusing on client work. Business in a Box opens tomorrow, with our first live session on Tuesday. The Interior Design Practice System launches a week on Monday. I am running a CPD for the BIID on Thursday, a...
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I am moving house this weekend, and this is the thin issue I warned you about.
So: the dates, the numbers from my week, and nothing else. Normal service resumes for Q4.
I committed to publishing every Sunday, not to publishing at full strength every Sunday. It's days like today that matt...
This is the first of two shorter newsletters, this week and next week.
Behind the scenes I'm moving house, and I'm fastidiously restricting all activities to their allocated time boxes in my calendar.
This week's business mainly concerns a gaping hole in the design process that I fell into while...
This week I'm writing about authority. Firstly, whether we step up and assume it, and secondly, how to stop it leaking out again as we deliver our services.
The blog is about stalling. You know what the next step is, you know how to take it, but something in your chest won't let you. There are t...
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Two changes have reshaped our profession in the last few years. One is artificial intelligence, it sits in the headlines and forces us into continual development. The other has crept over us more subtly and it is this: marketing has stopped being something a design practice does alongsid...
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