Written by Philip Brumpton, a designer who still writes the CSS. Interfaces, typography, and the gap between a design and the thing that ships.
Fifteen years after Dod's Parliamentary Communications, I went back to Westminster's data and built the two apps I wished had existed: one to find your MP, one to find peers by their specialisms.
My fulfilment platform switched off the API I was paying for, then offered to sell it back at more than double the price. Here's what I built instead with Stripe, Make.com and WooCommerce.
I had a dilemma. I needed to revive theinteractivedesigner.co.uk, a domain I have owned for the last 20 years. So what do you do? Build a WordPress site and upload 25 years of work, or try something different?
In light of the latest by election in Clackton on the 4th of july, I have decided to help count bin face with one of his election manifestos – bring back Ceefax.
There's a sticker on the back of every bag of VENDUM Coffee. Scan the QR code when the bag runs out and you've reordered with Apple Pay in two taps. No app to install, no account, no password.
The first thing I built this way is on the App Store now: KeyCut, an iPad control surface for video editors. Tap a colour-coded key and it fires the real shortcut to your Mac over Wi-Fi.
