Hi I’m Dug and this is my blog. I am a designer who has recently moved to Scotland. I live with Nicki and our two childhood units.

These posts go all the way back to 2001.

When I started blogging way back then, I didn’t like the tools available so wrote my own in some dodgy middle-ware called MGI that ran on OS9 WebSTAR (yes, really!). A couple of years in, I discovered Movable Type and was a happy customer for many years. The current version of this blog is hosted on Github pages and is built using Jekyll.

Re content, the topics have changed over the years.

There was a period of heavy consumer activism, a few years all about babies and deaths in the family, quite a few posts about design, usability, politics and so on. The main challenge is the fact the blog has no central theme so struggles to compete with other specialist sites. I guess at this stage, it’s a safe place for me to experiment, and also a repository for my voice so the kids have something when I’m gone (but not in a ghoulish way).

If you’d like to create some content or services together I’m always keen to meet new people and share cups of tea. Reach out by email and if you’d like to see some content slightly more focused on my design work, those pages are here for now: goodlookslikethis.com

Photo Gavin Walker