Andy Polaine
Moved to Hugo
The blog has moved from WordPress to Hugo on Netlify, with faster pages, zero tracking, and a new name: Doctor''s Note.
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Next Conference and eDay
A compressed version of the Synthetic Realities talk given at Next Hamburg and Emerce eDay, with the slide deck.
Design for the long term
During my move from Australia to Germany I somehow missed posting the talk I gave at Web Directions Design 18 called Design for the Long Term (another version …
Design in the Age of Synthetic Realities
AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic media are remaking the creative industries. A long read on how to understand what''s really at stake.
Learning from Ed Sheeran
I went to see Ed Sheeran live the other day. I can assure that’s not a sentence I thought I would be writing. At the start of his meteoritic rise, I couldn’t …
Storytelling, Pitching and Synthetic Realities at UX Australia 2019
I’m heading back to Australia in August forUX Australia 2019 where I’ll be running a workshop on Storytelling & Pitching for Designers and …
Innovation = Conversation + Doing
“What should we be doing to be increase innovation?” It is a very common question from clients. It’s not unreasonable, since the chatter around innovation is …
The complex is not complicated
I wrote a piece for my Doctor’s Note newsletter about the difference between the complex and the complicated. The central point is that if we don’t …
Introducing the Power of Ten podcast
I’ve podcasted on and off for a while and always enjoyed it, first with Core77 in the mid-2000s, last year as a regular host of a Fjord Fika (new season …
Value versus Values
That extra ’s’ makes all the difference. Whilst we are talking about the dysfunctional desire to reduce the world to bottom-line numbers, there was …
Design Maturity
Leah Buley, Director Design Education at InVision, and a wider team from InVision just published the Design Maturity Model. I very much preferred this to …
History Repeating
This week’s Doctor’s Note is all about value versus values. That extra ’s’ makes all the difference. Here’s the first part of it. …
The Box Is All There Is
AI getting sneaky Recently, I wrote about the games that AI’s play, gaming training environments as logical responses to the reward and assessment stimuli they …
Reading Habits
The original of this article was published on Medium. I have a distinct childhood memory, queuing up at the railway crossing that was always a feature of my …
Corporate Culture and the Games AIs Play
The original version of this article was published on Medium. One of the fascinating features of artificial intelligence is how much it tells us about …