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Rethinking reviewing FMCG technologies

Writing about technology ain’t easy – attractive, cogent writingabout technology products with people in the loop is even harder. Good role models are hard to come by … Prior-to-purchase FMCG reviews Most of us are acquiring, using and discarding technology at a ka-zooming rate, unprecedented in human history. There’s a huge industry involved in selling, promoting and writing about these products, and much of it...

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Rethinking the (gentleman’s) hairdresser experience

Seen with the eyes of a mere male, the hairdressing trade seems to be heading for a hiccup by ignoring the customer, right when s/he is balancing amid intensely personal issues of vanity and self-confidence Haircut hell A certain level of grooming is necessary in the business world, so yesterday morning I went to the “hairdresser” (weird name, really …). Getting my hair cut...

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From Grand Designs to weak design

Kathryn Tyler – an unusually capable designer forced to settle for mediocre communication, in a typical designer’s conundrum Special skills highlighted One Sunday I was revelling in end-to-end re-runs of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Designs series, featuring some of Britain’s most ambitious self-build projects, with intrepid individuals ploughing through the design and construction of their dream homes, often via nightmare processes. The one that caught my...

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