Design Jam London 2: post-mortem
Design Jam London 2 was a fun and rewarding experience.
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1 Mar 2011
I was honored to be asked, alongside Mathias Dahlström from LastMinute.com and Tim Brooke from Nokia, to mentor Design Jam London 2.
The UK government is looking to remove Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the core curriculum and remove funding for it entirely. Anna Debenham, who recently attended a Think Tank organised by Naace, just wrote a blog post on what was discussed that summarizes the status quo. In it, she states:
I was saddened to learn that many of the people in the room were in the process of being made redundant. Schools are already axing ICT from their offerings, before the government has even announced anything. Their whole budgets cut, they see the subject as expensive and expendable. The process was described as "slash and burn".
No more British geeks? Government set to “slash and burn” digital education in UK.
The last thing we should be doing is to cut funding for digital literacy. Quite on the contrary, we should be redoubling our efforts and our investment to fix it. Britain's digital future deserves no less.
I have an HSBC Advance account. It's a premium personal current account (ok, you can stop looking at me like I'm a fool – I get travel insurance and stuff. OK, OK, and I'm gullible!) You would think that one feature of a current account in this day and age, whether premium or not, would be the ability download previous statements in a data format or some sort.
In fact, for some inexplicable reason which must make perfect sense to you if you're a fat cat making billions after being bailed out by taxpayer's – i.e., our – money, HSBC allows you to do download statements in a variety of formats but only for recent transactions. As of this writing, my recent transactions only go as far back as the start of January, 2011. I also have access to "previous statements" that date back to the start of last year but – and it's a big but – I can't download them. I can print them but that's about it. WTF indeed.
HSBC Prepare CSV bookmarklet for FreeAgent: Download previous statements on HSBC Personal accounts
A bookmarklet that lets you download previous statements from your HSBC Personal account in CSV format.
Update: sorry everyone, the event sold out in under 24 hours but there is a waiting list you can sign up to in case anyone drops out. Thank-you all for your overwhelming interest and here's looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there in March!
READY? FIGHT! Don’t miss the first Geek Ninja Battle Night!
Andy Clarke and Remy Sharp square off against Sarah Parmenter and yours truly in a battle of wits as we explore Mobile: Web vs. Native.
Watch the video of my talk on user experience from the opening keynote of the Frontend 2010 conference in Oslo, Norway.
See the other talks from the conference on the Frontend 2010 videos page and contact me if you'd like to book me to present at your mobile, web, design, or development conference or if you'd like me to present on user experience at your company.
The Art of Emotional Design: a story of pleasure, joy, and delight.
This is a recording of my talk on user experience and emotional design from my opening keynote at the Frontend2010 conference in Norway.