Last Sunday, I took Liane and Max on a helicopter flight from Bankstown, over their house at Mt Colah out to Palm Beach down to Long Reef and back to Bankstown via the Sydney Harbour. It was their wedding present from me. It was spectacular weather, an absolutely gorgeous day for flying. We were lucky More
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Getting to know inspirational Scientists and Engineers
This blog series is about getting to know a variety of inspirational scientists and engineers. We have all heard about the big ones, Einstein, Galileo, Newton, Archimedes, da Vinci, Hawkings. Or maybe even some of these, Plank, Rutherford, Marconi, Maxwell, Hertz, Ampere and the Curies. But have you heard of Mosely (not the TV doctor), More
Luisi & Bruckners 7 – DR SymfoniOrkestret
Recently while I was on holidays in the wonderful city of Copenhagen (København), Denmark, I took the opportunity to get a ticket to see the DR SymfoniOrkestret at the DR Koncerthuset. The concert was called “Luisi & Bruckners 7”. The concert featured Eva Steinaa playing Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto and the orchestra performing Anton Bruckner’s More
Mozart and the French Connection: François Leleux
On Friday the 23rd of February, Miss A and I went off to the Sydney Opera House to see the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart and the French Connection. I was very excited about this concert. I was fortunate enough to see François Leleux twice when he was here in 2012, he blew me away More
The Value of Not Defining a Solution
Last night I attended the latest Sydney UI/UX Meetup hosted at Canva in Surrey Hills. I meetup with the amazing Miss A (Alice Zhong). The night was broken into two talks Eric Folger – The value of not defining a solution Matt Anderson – Canva’s Design System The venue was great and the food and More
Palm Beach Helicopter Flight – What a Way to Spend Boxing Day!
On Boxing Day, I took Bobbie and Steve on a helicopter flight from Bankstown to Palm Beach and down to Long Reef and back to Bankstown via the Lane of Entry. It was a surprise present from Bobbie to Steve for Christmas. The weather wasn’t as clear as we would have liked but it did More
Final Presentation & Industry Night at Academy Xi
On the 15th of December we presented our final presentations. We weren’t given a tight scope, about 20mins in front of a wall with no slides, no topic just whatever we would like to share with the staff and students at Academy Xi. I completed a User Journey and a Skills card sort based on More
Summary of Weeks 5 to 10 of UX design at Academy Xi
Weeks 5 to 10 of the course were project weeks. Each project used a different project management structure, Waterfall, Agile and Lean. Week 5 – Living Building Challenge with Miss A Weeks 6 & 7 – Sydney Opera House with Miss C Week 8 – Beam Wallet with Miss A and Miss L Weeks 9 More
Gripping Shostakovich with SSO
On Friday the 17th November, Mr Tuba and I went off to see the Sydney Symphony perform a program of Shostakovich. I was a little be worried about the Russianess of the program. The pieces were Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 in E flat major, Op.107 and Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op.65. Dmitri Shostakovich More
Summary of Week 4 of UX design at Academy Xi
Week 4 went really well. I had a really good week. This week we covered Empathy Maps, Information Architecture (IA) and Content Management. We also had in our clients for next weeks ‘waterfall’ projects. Exercises Empathy Maps We worked in groups of 2. I worked with Miss P. We practiced interviewing each other. I interviewed More
