Ace of Cups - Luke Murphy's personal website

<div class="lc-content"> <div class="lc-intro"> <p><em>This was originally written for the <a href="https://www.nothingsoundsgood.club">Nothing Sounds Good zine</a>, done over multiple parts.

On my recent trip to Australia, I kind of fell back in love with the country.

I just got back from a weekend in Berlin, walking around and exploring while my partner was off volunteering at a big book event.

How does one be successfully bored?

The air feels heavy, doesn’t it?

<div class="yir25--masthead-title"> A Year of Lurking (Wow that sounds bad...)

Oh hey, look, it’s a new website.

Welcome to the semi-regular self-therapy session.

This article was originally written for the Nothing Feels Good zine in 2023.

I want to find joy in seeing music again Last week I went to a gig and actually enjoyed it.

Once again, I’m trying to make weeknoting a habit again, and we’ll see if it lasts beyond February.

At OFFF last month, there were a few people who talked about using AI, specifically image generation with things like Midjourney, to aid them when they were creating art.

This week has been primarily focussed on OFFF Festival in Barcelona.

Time to get back into this weeknoting thing… * The week started with a little recording session.

Originally published in Darkest Timeline Discozine Issue #1.

This is a version of a talk that I gave to You Got This!

Brains are weird.

— Conference season has kicked off again in earnest after the last two years of staring at a Zoom screens, and I am utterly delighted to see faces from Twitter in person again.

— About 8 years ago when I was working with Microsoft, our team did the Belbin test to know our personality types so we could understand each other a little better.

— I finally got my hands on Los Campesinos!

At the risk of this sounding like a support group — Hi, my name's Luke and I'm a design advocate.

— Let's start with some music.

— A bumpy start then... after committing to myself that I'll start blogging weekly, I completely forgot about it seven days later.

— Another six months, another failed half year of writing.

A problem that seems to come up a lot within small to medium size product companies is whether you'll get more value out of your Product Design team being embedded within your different teams, or a centralised team, where work is centrally managed and des…

There’s nothing like a new year for a blank slate.

Ever since I got involved in the design and dev community online, the whole ‘web celebrity’ thing has been a topic that keeps coming up.