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About Me

User experience (UX) designer with 12 years experience in the web industry. Interaction design, user research & design thinking. Organiser of BarCamps & TEDx in Canberra, guest blogger for UXmatters & UX Magazine. Gov 2.0 advocate. Previously involved with OpenAustralia, Canberra Coworking & Free Australia Wireless. Photographer, musician & foodie.

Location:
New Zealand, Christchurch
Current organization:
LeftClick
Past organizations:
Telogis Inc, Australian Government Department of Human Services
Current role:
User Experience (UX) Designer
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
User Experience Design, Design Thinking, Creative thinking, Empathic Research, Rapid Prototyping, Participatory Co-Design, Ideation Facilitation, Strategy , Leadership
I am:
Agnostic, Blogger, Change Agent, Designer, Foodie, Idea generator, Musician, Photographer, Social entrepreneur, Writer/Editor
My website links:
purecaffeine.com, @NathanaelB
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    A comment on Conversation: Do governments use complex language on purpose?

    Jul 30 2011: There are some things that need to be written in a legal language that properly describes the conditions and constraints of various policies to clamp down loopholes and prevent misinterpretation but there is nothing stopping them from overlaying that with a "plain English" version that makes sense to the layperson.

    I worked in government for 8 years and was on the side of those who wanted people to understand what we were saying rather than fall into the trap of bureaucratic speak ... and it really is just that, a trap - a culture that expects you to speak in vague and non-commital safe terms which only delay things getting done. You just get caught up in it - but people are pushing back from inside because public servants do genuinely want to help citizens, not screw around with endless policy reviews, crossing the t's and dotting the i's.
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    A comment on Conversation: Which are the 3 most important qualities of a leader?

    Jul 30 2011: My thoughts:

    1) Genuine care for those who look to them for direction and guidance.
    2) A desire and drive to achieve.
    3) The skills to facilitate and enable others to work effectively.

  • A comment on Conversation: Why should listening be taught as a skill in school?

    Jul 30 2011: I think it would be hard to isolate children in school from the noise and distractions of our current fast-paced hectic and scatterbrained world ... but I do believe we all need to slow down, take a deep breath and stop being in such a hurry. And it's entirely possible that training kids to be attentive, to be patient and not be in such a rush could very well disadvantage them in a work culture that expects people to run around like headless chickens.
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    A comment on Talk: Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before

    Jul 8 2011: Ok so not the typical sort of content I'd expect on TED but wow, loved this video and have got to get that book (or books) ... although if I'm reading it right, the price is about $450 so maybe not. But it's certainly carved out a niche for itself with it's combination of cooking art and science, infographics and mind-blowing photography, and has taken the beauty of the glossy printed page to the next level. Long live the book!

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