James Carruthers
@JamesCarruthers
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Designer of services and products—
London
Joined September 2008
I just published 52 things I learned in 2022
link.medium.com
This year I worked on fascinating projects in energy, media and health* at Magnetic, and learned many learnings.
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Really pleased that my #ActivistEngineering article is now live @RSDesignSpark. "Disposable" Vapes Take to the Skies! Hat tip to Big Clive on youtube and @LetsOKdo for their Air:Bit tutorial! Lets get #reusing and #recycling those ECig LiPo's! #Microbit
https://t.co/hNSICC31ib
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Woohoo! My @FreeCADNews book "FreeCAD for Makers" is out and available for free download! Huge thanks to @Raspberry_Pi and @HackSpaceMag crew for getting it together and @yorikvanhavre for the foreword! #opensource #CAD #CAM #FEM #Makers
https://t.co/e0Sk0I49Td
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This week is enough to finish anyone off, let alone the person who had to appoint her.
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Design. With. User. Stories. — doesn’t matter what it is, a new thing, a redesign, tweaks. Design. With. User. Stories. Before you solutionise, before you put pen to paper, mouse to pixel… design with the stories… design in the stories…
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If you're on an M1 or M2 Mac then this Apple Silicon version of Teams is vital; https://t.co/yX1M5pjb4A — you're welcome!
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I quit my gov job a few months ago— is this all a coincidence? I couldn’t possibly say… 😉
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(I am leaving at the end of the week too. But that’s not the point.)
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Said goodbye to a brilliant colleague today. We got to the point where we could finish each other’s sentences. I’m am really quite sad. So very sad. Therefore, I am treating myself to a fancy lunch.
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You spend ages designing an art making machine ( https://t.co/VDDohQmbFX) only to find that one of the first people to make one wants to use it to market real estate to old people—
github.com
A Core XY plotter. Contribute to jamescarruthers/PlotteRXY development by creating an account on GitHub.
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I’m looking for new opportunities starting in June. Hit me up if you need my flavour of design leadership or service design. No recruiters please!
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Apparently— just before you leave your job— all the slide decks you’ve made flash before you—
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Then Sandra, an underground employee, carried my bag and helped me up to ground level— got me into a taxi to get me home—
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I can’t thank the wonderful kind eyed medical student who spotted me sitting on the floor between the Jubilee line platforms at Waterloo yesterday evening— I was having an asthma attack— she went off to find help, then waited with me until they came—
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