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2024 – A recovery year of experiences to make 2025 a banger
I’m going to cut straight to it. 2024 wasn’t easy for me in business. In life it was good. I’ve continued with feeling healthy after my heart issues – in fact, it marked five years since I had my heart attack. I had a few key takeaways to note down:
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A review of Nitin Sawhney’s Heart Suite
Bit of a disclaimer – I’m not a music critic by trade. But I am someone who survived a heart attack. So I have some skin in this game. I also didn’t go expecting to be writing a review, but as it seems nobody else has done one I couldn’t let this go. Yesterday I…
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What the hell Jaguar? Let’s take a look at the Type 00
Car design isn’t for the faint hearted – it’s a high stakes world where hundreds of millions are spent on design, development, preparing production, passing regulations, and driving demand. And you can only do safe and evolutionary designs if your customers are buying those things. Jaguar, bless it, has always struggled to make money –…
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Back to basics
In recent times I’ve started to find myself more and more interested in stepping away from success. Successful teams, people, companies. I don’t mean people who are likely to be like you and me. I mean the big bosses, the billionaires, the Premier League teams… the winners. I’m just tired. I’ve watched the world’s richest…
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Hertz doubled the cost of my car rental. Here’s their process design trick.
This year, during my family holiday, I discovered how Hertz – and many other car hire companies – have crafted a process involving dark patterns to trick stressed travellers into paying far more than necessary for their car hire. I’ve used Hertz several times over the years, particularly in the 2000s, so I expected good…
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Taller buildings let us design better towns
I lived in a range of places as a kid, partly because my father was a bit of an itinerant who didn’t know what he wanted in life, other than that I mustn’t live with my mother. Go figure. Eventually I got to settle down with my grandmother, but in the process I learned a…
David Coveney
A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics
Why I blog
Thanks for turning up here. I blog because sometimes I need to get ideas and thoughts out without boring the people immediately around me. Feel free to read around, and if you want to know more, there’s an about page.
David Coveney
Easily distracted technologist, writer, publisher, developer and old fart.