A Desk Is a Dangerous Place From Which to Watch the World

This article is a reproduction of an article published in HindSight magazine issue 28 in February 2019 on the…

Twenty Five Years: Reflections on the Practice of Improving Work

In this post, I reflect on what I learned since graduating and have found to be most important to practice in the design and improvement of work.

On the Spread of Ideas: Four Roles and Four Traps 

In this post, I describe four roles for the spread of new ideas, and reflect on corresponding ego traps or shadow roles.

Giving Guidance to Government

This article was published in The Ergonomist, published by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and…

The Safety-fication of Everything

Some time ago, I noticed the safety-fication of everything. I noticed that otherwise fairly ordinary words…

What Are You Reading For?

The comedian Bill Hicks died just over 20 years ago. He was not ‘just a comedian’.…

Déformation Professionnelle: How Profession Distorts Perspective

So, what do you do? If you work in a health and safety role, there…

Human Factors Research and Practice – Part 2: Bridging the Gap

This article by Steve Shorrock and Amy Chung was published in The Ergonomist (newsletter of…

Human Factors Research and Practice – Part 1: Surveying the Gap

This article by Steve Shorrock and Amy Chung was published in The Ergonomist (newsletter of…

Empathy: A Core Condition for Humanistic Design

Many involved in human-centred design (ergonomics, human factors, UX, interaction design, etc) have an internal…