It was Dad’s funeral yesterday. I delivered a eulogy, somehow keeping it together. I wanted to recognise Dad here, so this is the speech I gave, remembering him as a wonderful father to my brother and me.
This is a question I’ll be answering on 12 March at this year’s Web Day Out conference. I’ll be clinging on to the coat-tails of a host of brilliant people who’ll be answering the wider question “what you can do in web browsers today?”
In the early 1940s, Directors General of the BBC Cecil Graves and William Haley spoke about the revolutionary technology of radio and television broadcasting. Read what they said and contrast with the opposite approach currently taken by the tech giants.
It’s the time of year again when browser makers ask which shiny new features they should implement in preference to fixing outstanding bugs. Despite my cynicism, I’m trying again with these submissions. They’re mostly typographic but in some cases important.
Earlier this year Clearleft brought 40 design leaders together in New York to shape a shared vision for the future of design leadership in a world of AI. The output was a series of critical questions to ask of ourselves and our organisations.