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72 entries
2023
- Autism EyesAn AI and VR healthtech spinout from Cleveland Clinic; as fractional CTO I helped carry the product out of the innovation lab, to its acquisition by Floreo.
2021
- Unlocking Potential (keynote)He was provocative and challenging at the same time as being positive and inspiring. He fulfilled his brief completely and was very flexible in the lead up to his keynote- flexing the content and checking with me that he was getting the messaging right.
2015
- Accenture (speaking engagement)Stef was great and delivered a great presentation and the audience found it very engaging. he recieved high praise and was a very approachable guy.
- The Memrise PrizeBuilt a tool for a head-to-head research competition to find the most effective way to learn foreign vocabulary — rival academic methods tested against each other on thousands of real learners.
- Unicorn HuntA job board for tech jobs, built with 3beards in London.
2014
- An awesome team formingA big welcome to some new makeshift faces
- Announcing: Twitter lists of your event attendeesWe have list off!
- Drawing to thinkIs a doodle good for the noodle?
- Are you building a hack, a product, or a hackquaduct?Bridging the Hack/Product Gap
- Watch: Encourage your kids to code even if you can’t yourselfA 7 minute lightning talk at Kidcrafters
- Leading at the code-faceBalancing technical leadership with writing code
- Learning to say “no”On becoming a non-yes man
- One hundred piecesCan I write one hundred pieces of writing in one year?
- My dad turns into a robot!A tiny game you can play to encourage your kids to code
- Startups—get a room!Pass the remote
- Step away from the screenApply sunscreen instead?
- Teh Guardian FTW!!!1!A tiny, subtle hack on TheGuardian.com
- Towards a greater understanding of technology for everyoneIn response to the response to the Year of Code
2013
- Crafty Fox BoxHelped Emily with design and tech around her monthly craft box subscription service.
- FlounderA tiny tool for small teams that helped them follow the people they were all most connected to to their company twitter account
- Get back to the craft
- Hack it in a day
- Introduction
- Let a thousand flowers bloom
- Don’t just do one thingCould parallelism be an appropriate way to find the thing you should focus on?
- Hackathon and on and on24 hours of hacking! Crèche not included
- Hey Twitter! Let me send a private link to a friend…URL be back
- How can we teach all the kids that want to code, how to code?A shedcast with Clare Sutcliffe, co-founder of Code Club
- How to lose form data and alienate peopleOn poor form
- How to send links via direct message in Twitter now they’re bannedA couple of handy hacks for getting round the ban
- Magnificent failures, hand made video game cheat books and the absurdity of startups: An interview with Ryan HooverTalking shop
- Make a useful thing and don’t be a dickStartup or upstart?
- Not just another blogOn making an article engine for Makeshift’s new website
- On the joy of small software!Building things that just do one thing well
- Shedcast #1: Stef on the early days of MakeshiftThe first in our series of podcast conversations from our two-story shed at Makeshift (yes you read that right)
- Shedcast with Joe ScarboroOur first guest conversation in the Makeshift Shedscraper, with Joe from 3 Beards
- Showing your work in progressShow people early, get feedback, listen
- Product PuntA no-code, landing page hack responding to the fact that Product Hunt had lots of people who wanted to post, but couldn't
- Stop feeding the beast
2012
- Fence SubscriptionsA way of supporting a record label via monthly subscriptions
- RicherlistEnrich a mailing list of emails with more data to make it more useful
- SpottedA mobile nature game
2011
- BuddyA software tool that helped people deal with depression by keeping a 'mood diary' via mobile, web and SMS.
- BudgeAn Arduino-based game with a web-based tool for visualisation and tracking.
- Manage PlacesA pre-launch beta product that aimed to help people with large areas of land under management to comply with various environmental legislation.
- MetchaMobile serendipity accelerator
- Mini Pub CrawlMake it easy to arrange a multi-venue evening out with friends
- MixilistYoutube app for online-and-offline parties
- Mo' Monsters!A random monster generator, the precursor to the company More Monsters
- New HomelyA quick mashup based on scraping Pinterest to make a small single-page web-based mood board.
- Phenomenal PeopleA quick experiment at a content site for Women of the World festival
- Twitter BackupDownload all your tweets as a JSON file
2010
- ConversativesComedy hack using a proxy to swap words for their opposite on the Conservatives.com website
- LaserBlazerWrite words in the air using your mobile
- MakefulnessAeioux - Makefulness
- SpiroArduino spirograph drawings
- Yellow Swans — Going Places
- WPRipperIf your wordpress site died, scrape it back from the Google Cache using a sitemap
2009
- Ruby GEOAPIRuby interface to GeoAPI
- Modern LoveMashed up Twitter and Soundcloud to make a neat label site: a new home online for Boomkat's labels.
- Now Try FailingA graduation ceremony talk about allowing yourself to fail so that you can succeed.
2007
- First Light MoviesWebsite rebuild for a UK-wide fund for inspiring young film
2004
- BBC Midlands TodayA touchscreen game for the Public Space at the BBC's new Birmingham home
- Doctor FreezeA six level platform game developed for Jersey Insight.
- Khonnor - I See StarsA Flash game to promote the new Khonnor album "Handwriting"
- LINE / ACG SnowballingA flash game for the LINE / Nike ACG UK ski team
2003
- Mansion ImpossibleAn addictive, free property trading game: buy and sell houses on your way up the property ladder, making enough cash to get the $10 Million mansion.
2002
2001
- Sprite Freestyle ArenaPromotional site for a £500,000 extreme snow sports arena at the Sheffield Ski Village.
2000
- White Noise CentralArt and literary site focussing on the travels of two music writers.
1996
- Robots in DisguiseVJ crew with Toby Harris — seven years of live visuals at some pretty great shows around the country