Blog on pause for April

Hello dear reader, The blog is on pause during April, but I will be back in May with new writing and some sewing projects. Until then, this is the first of two posts I have lined up to keep things ticking over. It’s very early in the season for apples, but they are the subject…

Favourite Book: Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

This was the book that made me see that perhaps I could be a designer after all.  The focus on product design, engineering and empathy was refreshing because of the focus on people, and designing products and systems that work for the people using them, not the other way around.