We’ll be talking at the GIANT health event on November 16th-18th  in London. UK. We’ll be looking at how healthcare can use design and data for a better patient experience. The talk is called “Florence Nightingale and Artificial Intelligence: What healthcare can learn from retail, aviation and other inspirational sectors” In a nice gestalt, Florence […]

As you may be aware, we have recently relaunched our Design of Understanding event as a new quarterly series. This has got us thinking about the structure and system of a good talk. It is the conference organiser’s job to make sure every minute is enjoyable and insightful, so we try to follow these rules: […]

We’re reinventing our Design of Understanding conference as a quarterly event. The Design of Understanding conference initially ran from 2011 to 2014 as a one-day event celebrating design and related areas. We discussed subjects broaching statistical literacy, linguistic ethnography, cyber security, paleo-art and favela architecture. We raised a lot of money for our host, the St […]

Max Gadney, Director, After the Flood will be speaking at UCD 2016 this October. Max will be speaking on Making Sense of Systems – how system illiteracy is a massive threat to our age and how designers can help. Max will draw on many ideas from After the Flood projects and inspiration from elsewhere, including designing for […]

In addition to running After the flood, I am writing a comic. To make a successful comic, the very first stage – before any thinking on form-thinking – needs to be a careful process of planning the  purpose and motivation behind the story. The point I want to make here is about editing, and how […]

We want to talk about book spine design. Why? You may consider this an ultimately ignorable element of the book creation process, but at After the flood we’re focused on the details. Behind every design choice there should be a thoughtful process, and when it comes to books some have this process nailed better than […]

We recently helped Daniel Geey (@FootballLaw) communicate a fascinating story about how the last 14 years of the Premier League have not featured a game between the top 5 teams on the final day. Daniel is the world’s leading football lawyer, who we know through our legal team at Sheridans. He collaborated with another of […]

We recently met with VICE Motherboard to discuss our recent work with UEFA on the Euro 2016 Player Barometer. You can read an excerpt from the story below. Words: Gabriela Barkho The 2016 Euros may have wrapped up this month—with Portugal coming out as champions—but UEFA’s work is never done. If you’d been watching the […]

We are very pleased to announce that we are working on a digital health product for release later in 2016. We are working with our partners to deliver concepts, design and build. Being health, most of this is the ‘service design’ intangibles in order to make a clear experience for patients and carers. Health is […]

We are currently working with Getty Images to make the most of the large amount of customer data they collect. We’ll post a case study soon, but the project focusses on the analytics and operational areas of data-led business. Increasingly, we are being asked to help make data actionable, with product design featuring as one part of […]