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How design businesses can survive and thrive post-Brexit  

It's nearly a month since the EU referendum result. One month of extreme political and economic change. Many consultancy owners are concerned about how revenues and profitability may be impacted; how successfully their businesses may continue to trade and perform.

It's worth remembering the design sector has been growing at well above the rate of the UK economy, and the quality and effectiveness of our offer is world-renowned. If we pick between the worry and uncertainty, what opportunities and positives can our industry take forwards? How can we pro-actively face these challenging times?

Pro-activity

“Here's what we always advise in times of turbulence,” suggests Shan Preddy of PREDDY&CO and author of How to Run a Successful Design Business, “One: Turn up the heat immediately on the satisfaction, retention and development of current and recent clients. They are the easiest, quickest and best source of future business. Two: Check over your vision, values, goals, business strategy, finances, product quality and marketing programmes. Perfect? If not, work on them. Three: Invest heavily in your team members by giving them expert internal and external coaching and training. With the right knowledge, skills and capabilities they will perform at their best and support you fully.” And Preddy adds: “Doing these three things now will protect you from bad, and prepare you for good times ahead, whatever the eventual impact of the referendum result.”

Jack O'Hern of accountancy firm Wright Vigar supports this message when he says: “If your market is going to be affected, then appropriate contingency planning ahead of falling sales or rising costs is the duty of a responsible management team, but avoid talking oneself into acting too quickly.”

Reasons to be cheerful

“Life must go on,” says business advisor Ian Cochrane, Chairman of Ticegroup. “There will be opportunities for positive thinking design consultancies to help their clients to grow and thrive in this new trading environment.” Measures are being put in place to stave off recession and boost the economy, and Cochrane flags that there are at least three reasons to be cheerful:

1. Borrowing should be easier moving forward and interest rates are likely to remain low for the foreseeable future. This will enable agencies to invest in staff, learning and technology to accelerate growth.

2. Corporation tax may go down which will not only attract inward investment to the UK but automatically increase post tax earnings and the valuation of design businesses.

3. The weaker sterling exchange rate will boost overseas sales potential.

“Agencies have a real opportunity to build and prepare their businesses ready for a possible trade sale in 3-5 years' time,” Cochrane says.

On consultancies' financial concerns, accountant Green and Purple's managing director, Peter Carter also has some good news. Design businesses which are service providers to the EU with few overhead costs in those markets, are in fact beautifully placed they are now more competitive than a supplier in their client's home country.

“Any piece of work you quote in GBP now is worth the same to you as it was, but costs your clients less, because of the pound's weakness, which will probably recover slowly but not for quite some time. If you already have any foreign-denominated retainers: happy days, they're worth more to you than they were last month,” says Carter.

Peter also flags that during the last few downturns we have seen a gradual shift where advertising and marketing spend is being seen as a recovery tool, rather than a discretionary nice-to-have, so consultancies aren't getting “switched off” in a downturn at least no more than other essentials like people and property costs. “Hold your nerve when quoting and tendering,” he advises, “you shouldn't need to drop your prices to undercut ‘local' competitors, and the UK has long had the edge in terms of sharp and effective design.”

The long game

“There is a long way to go until we are clear again on our working relationship with our European friends,” says  design industry expert Kate Blandford of Kate Blandford Consulting. “Stay calm, keep up those friendships, continue to do your extraordinary work, building healthy commercial futures for your clients' brands.”

It's a sentiment echoed by business development consultant, Catherine Allison of Master the Art: “Surely now, more than ever, agency CEOs need to project positivity, ensure agency staff remain confident and engaged, invest in their personal development and train them to represent the agency in the best possible way? Only then will they be best placed to convert those new business opportunities that do come their way.”

So in these extraordinary days, months and years ahead, this will be the time to really master your messaging to your clients on the value you can bring to their business; the ROI and commercial growth they can expect to see from investing in design. As the DBA's chief executive Deborah Dawton says: “UK design is world leading. Our industry's proven ability to drive both business and economic growth has not changed, nor has the quality and effectiveness of our offer. UK design is a potent business asset and a sound commercial investment.”

It is our time to design a better future for business, government and society. The opportunity is there. 

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A new app designed to deliver doctors to patients' doors  

It's no longer only restaurant food and cabbies that smartphone users can order to their door a new doctor “delivery service” app has been designed, which allows patients to request a general practitioner to arrive at their home within an hour and a half.

GPDQ GP Delivered Quickly  is a start-up company, founded by NHS and private healthcare GP Dr Anshumen Bhagat, with the aim of creating a “more accessible and affordable private primary care solution”.

Patients are able to request a GP to arrive at any given location from Monday Sunday, 8am 11pm within an average of 90 minutes, for appointments and prescriptions. Appointments start at £120 for a 25-minute consultation, and go up in price if patients want extra time or to use the system's two-hour medication delivery service.

The company is registered with the Care Quality Commission, the medical profession's independent regulator, and uses doctors who are UK-trained and registered with the General Medical Council.

The user interface (UI) uses a simple colour scheme of white, black and pink, along a sans-serif typeface.

The UI includes a map, with plots showing where GPs are based in the user's vicinity. The user can then select an address, and they are given an expected arrival time, alongside an appointment fee.

Once they've ordered, they're given a profile and photo of the doctor they will be receiving treatment from, alongside a rating and a reviews system.

Following the appointment, they are encouraged to leave a star rating and review, and can view their past and previous appointments through a side menu.

Inspired by Uber and Airbnb

The app was designed by freelance designer Alisa Afkhami, who says Uber was the inspiration behind the user experience (UX) and digital design of GPDQ.

“You could say GPDQ is Uber but for GP visits,” she says. “A lot of user are already familiar with the Uber experience, so by following a similar experience this helps to create an instant sense of trust and ease, as they don't have to ‘learn' how to use our app.”

She adds: “As a start-up, we don't have the same resources as Uber, which now has a massive team of designers, experts, testers and developers but we can learn a lot from their design decisions and adopt them to our own concept.”

Inspiration was also drawn from the user interface design of Airbnb, Afkhami says. “It has such a clear hierarchy and visual language to display information that it just makes it so easy to digest and absorb,” she says. GPDQ aims to mimic this through its simplicity of use.

“Giving control” to patients

Afkhami says the app concept aims to “empower” patients, through allowing them to leave reviews and ratings, and giving them more control over when they see a doctor.

“Rather than waiting on hold at their GP surgery to try and get an available appointment in the next few weeks, patients can see a doctor right away at a place that's convenient for them. The rating system also allows GPDQ to maintain a high standard of care based on patient feedback.”

GPDQ is currently only available in central London but will be expanding to more UK cities soon, the company says.

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The Partners creates new branding for International AIDS Society  

The Partners has created a new visual identity for the International AIDS Society (IAS), an organisation which brings together medical professionals, campaigners and those working towards a cure.

The new brand identity is based around a flat red ribbon icon, the universal symbol for awareness and support of HIV and AIDS. The logo sees a flat square with a black outline, with the letters IAS within it, alongside the red ribbon.

The simple colour scheme of red, white and black is incorporated throughout all visual communications, with the bright red colour being used boldly as the backdrop for advertising posters.

The Partners hopes the new design work will help to convey a sense of humanity, says Margaret Wolhuter, managing director at The Partners' health division.

“It was extremely important for us to reflect the IAS' deeply personal, human connection in our work,” she says. “The new strategy and design represent the humanity at the centre of the IAS brand and will help the organisation to grow further in their response to one of the biggest challenges facing humankind today.”

This has been communicated through taglines such as “Stronger together”, alongside stark facts about how many people contract, live and die from the condition every year, with the aim of conveying the “social and personal impact of HIV”, says the consultancy.

By using strings of ribbon motifs, each one also aims to symbolise “the voice of individual IAS members coming together as a powerful movement”, with the aim of counteracting “apathy, complacency, prejudice and ignorance” towards the condition, says Wolhuter.

IAS was founded in 1988, and is the world's largest association of HIV professionals, with members from more than 180 countries who work across all fronts to reduce the impact of HIV. It does this through initiatives that look to encourage scientific research to develop a cure, clinical management and treatment, journals and resources, the support of young people with the condition, among other things.

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Alien-Hunting 19 Years After "Contact"  
This article was originally posted on Inverse.



By Sarah Sloat

One of the most realistic parts of Contact is the blatant sexism that the brilliant young astronomer Eleanor Arroway encounters throughout the 1997 extraterrestrial-hunting film. The rumored inspiration for Arroway -- Jill Tarter -- said in 1999 that author Carl Sagan, who wrote the novel the movie was based off of, "included many of the 'character-building' experiences that are common to women scientists studying and working in a male-dominated profession, so Ellie seems very familiar to me."

"Character-building" in this scenario is being a prominent SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astronomer who has to deal with backward dudes who think your scientific expertise is laughable science fiction and won't take you seriously because you're a woman. Great.

But for a movie that ends up with our protagonist on an intergalactic pseudo-beach chatting with an alien posing as her father, you may be surprised to know that what Contact nails doesn't stop there. Contact's realism is a reflection of the fact that Sagan knew what he was talking about. Until her breakthrough, Arroway lives a convincing life as a scientist -- working out of the same observatories as real SETI researchers, fighting for funding, and hunting for alien life by listening for radio signals between 1,200 and 3,000 MHz from systematically selected stars.

But what makes Arroway's discovery of alien-transmitted communication from the star Vega awesome material for a Hollywood blockbuster is that it's sold as a fantasy. Sagan knew the real science going on behind the fiction he created, but people who bought movie tickets didn't. People in 1997 didn't believe in SETI initiatives any more than the antagonists Arroway encountered.

If Contact was to get a remake today (but seriously, no) it wouldn't be able to instill the same sense of bewildered wonder. And that is a very good thing, namely because the work that Arroway portrays in the film is finally getting its due as a respectable field of science. Contact has proven to be prescient in 2016 (save for the actual we've-gotten-a-message-from-aliens part).


Ellie reachers for a cracker-jack compass during her journey to Vega.

Take billionaire Yuri Milner: In Contact, Arroway's work (and eventual voyage to Vega) is saved by the financial intervention of Dr. Hadden Suit, whose wealth seemingly has no bounds. Suit works from the shadows, moving the pieces in Arroway's life, without the public knowing of the alien-hunting science going on behind closed doors. Comparatively, Milner is a real life financier who has made his intentions to help find evidence of extra-terrestrials extremely public.

In 2015, Milner announced his Breakthrough Listen initiative in collaboration with the SETI program at the University of California, Berkeley -- a $100 million project that uses telescopes to listen for extraterrestrial radio signals and search for laser signals. In January, he announced another $100 million dollar project with Breakthrough Starshot, an enterprise that plans to send laser-powered lightsails to the star system Alpha Centauri with the eventual goal of encountering life in deep space. That line, in any other year, would seem straight-up ridiculous.


A Breakthrough Starshot solar sail.

But things are a bit different in 2016. Arroway probably would not need to patiently break down how radio signals work to suits in the U.S. government when they begin to investigate her work; they'd probably already know what's going on. Just look at the development of the FAST telescope being built in China, which Zheng Xiaonian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says will have "the potential to search for more strange objects to better understand the origin of the universe and boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life."

But mainly, a scientist of Arroway's caliber wouldn't have to take the same sort of inane criticism. SETI researchers are increasingly aware that they are no longer fringe weirdos. SETI communications director Seth Shostak told Inverse in January that, "I think there may be truth to SETI being taken more seriously by the public and it may be a consequence of the discovery of exoplanets filtering down to the public."

And while funding for exploratory science continues to be a struggle, SETI has been able to continue -- and even increase -- its programs. While it continues to monitor radio waves, sometimes with the help of public laptops, SETI is also able to use optical instruments to look for lasers and light patterns that could signify the presence of aliens.

In fact, on Thursday, SETI's Institute Director of Research Nathalie Cabrol published a proposal arguing for further developing alien-hunting techniques, specifically through the establishment of Virtual Institute with "new detection strategies."

"To find E.T., we must open our minds beyond a deeply-rooted, Earth-centric perspective, expand our research methods, and deploy new tools," said Cabrol in a press statement. "Never before has so much data been available in so many scientific disciplines to help us grasp the role of probabilistic events in the development of extraterrestrial intelligence. These data tell us that each world is a unique planetary experiment."

Cabrol's words are comparable to that of Arroway's, who praises the "acquisition of technology" as the catalyst for finally making contact probable. The good news for us: Cabrol is real, and one day, contact with aliens might be too.

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Web Of Denial Groups Protesting Democrat Focus Get $92m In Funding  


As Democrat Senators spent two days this week outlining the cash funneled to front groups in the fossil fuel-funded climate "Web of Denial," predictably, some of the spiders started crawling out of that web.

The senators received a sharply-worded missive from a line-up of 22 free market groups, 21 of whom have received money from fossil fuel companies - or "dark money" (money laundered to hide the funders), and the majority of whom are fighting climate action - or the science. The total funding added up to more than $92m.

"Sadly, our democracy and our freedom hangs in the balance as you use your office to bully and single out groups to blame rather than ideas to debate," they lamented.

The American Citizenry "deserve and increasingly demand healthy and respectful political dialogue, and well-informed, well-debated public policies."

The letter, hosted on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) website, started off reasonably politely, but quickly turned nasty as the writers accused the Senators of being tyrants, of shutting down free speech, yada yada yada.

In the interests of democracy and transparency, we decided to take a look at these groups.

We tallied up the funding they've received from just four entities since the late 90's: the Koch Brothers' various foundations, ExxonMobil, and the two Dark Money organizations, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund.

The total tally of funding came to over $92 million to 21 of the 22 groups that signed the letter.

Not all of this (that we know of) went to climate denial specifically, because we don't know the details of why Donors Capital Fund gave them a total of $57,569,564, or, indeed, who provided the DCF with that cash. Neither do we know the details of Donors Trust, which provided $19,163,715 to these groups. But at least some of it, we know, was for these groups' fight against the climate science - or against action on climate.

And all but one of these organisations have been working to either undermine the climate science, or to prevent action on climate change, either at State or a National level.

"You were elected by the people to build consensus and find compromise--to fiercely debate the most pressing issues of our day. Often, these debates are meant to be contentious and without a clear solution because innovation comes from great challenge," they told the 19 senators.

Yet many of them have worked fiercely to oppose any solutions to arguably THE most pressing issue of the day: climate change. For example, ALEC has written model bills and resolutions designed to undermine - or kill - innovation such as renewable energy. These groups have challenged the scientific consensus on the climate science, and blocked progress at state and federal level to curb emissions.

Then there is their insistence on debate. Many of this lot use the "doubt is their product" tobacco playbook - keep the "debate" going so that the public thinks there is a debate over climate science. That this debate is over doesn't stop them. So writing to the Senators complaining they are shutting down debate is pretty much what you'd expect them to do.

Let's break down the funding a little more.

The Heartland Institute received a total of 18,645,247 from Donors Capital Fund, and a total of $20,018,747 from the four of them. That's an enormous amount of money. Heartland staff have given presentations at ALEC annual meetings. ALEC itself has received $3,556,487 from these four funders.

The Franklin Center for Government and Policy Integrity has received a total of $29,570,920- mostly from the Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust. Its affiliated news outlets regularly publish articles questioning climate science and parroting long-debunked myths around climate change.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, of course, is on the list. Again, a big recipient of Donors Trust money ($5 million), and it still coordinates the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group that's been going since the late 1990's.

Then there's the money that we haven't tallied.

For example, the John Locke Foundation, according to Robert Brulle and spelt out by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) in the debate, received $21 million from Art Pope's father's foundation 2003-2013. Art Pope is a good friend of the Koch brothers.

So in the end, one looks at these 22 organisations who've slammed the Democrat Senators' speeches in the house, and you can only conclude one thing: they would say that, it's the kind of thing they're paid to do.

Here's the full details of the funding to these groups.

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Congress Subpoenas Climate Scientists In Effort To Hamper ExxonMobil Fraud Investigation  

ExxonMobil executives may have intentionally misled the public about climate change for decades. And the House Science Committee just hampered legal efforts to learn more about ExxonMobil's actions by subpoenaing the nonprofit scientists who sought to find out what the fossil fuel giant knew and when.

For 40 years, tobacco companies intentionally misled consumers to believe that smoking wasn't harmful. Now it appears that many in the fossil fuel industry may have applied similarly deceptive tactics and for just as long to confuse the public about the dangers of climate change.

Investigative research by nonprofit groups like InsideClimate News and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have turned up evidence that ExxonMobil may have known about the hazards of fossil-fuel driven climate change back in the 1970s. However, rather than informing the public or taking steps to reduce such risks, documents indicate that ExxonMobil leadership chose to cover up their findings and instead convince the public that climate science couldn't be trusted.

As a result of these findings, the Attorneys General (AGs) from New York and Massachusetts launched a legal investigation to determine if ExxonMobile committed fraud, including subpoenaing the company for more information. That's when the House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith stepped in.

Chairman Smith, under powerful new House rules, unilaterally subpoenaed not just the AGs, but also many of the nonprofits involved in the ExxonMobile investigation, including groups like the UCS. Smith and other House representatives argue that they're merely supporting ExxonMobile's rights to free speech and to form opinions based on scientific research.

However, no one is targeting ExxonMobile for expressing an opinion. The Attorneys General and the nonprofits are investigating what may have been intentional fraud.

In a public statement, Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists said:

We do not accept Chairman Smith's premise that fraud, if committed by ExxonMobil, is protected by the First Amendment. It's beyond ironic for Chairman Smith to violate our actual free speech rights in the name of protecting ExxonMobil's supposed right to misrepresent the work of its own scientists and deceive shareholders and the public. […]

Smith is misusing the House Science Committee's subpoena power in a way that should concern everyone across the political spectrum. Today, the target is UCS and others concerned about climate change. But if these kinds of subpoenas are allowed, who will be next and on what basis?

In fact, Chairman Smith also subpoenaed climate scientists at the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the fall of 2015 and again earlier this year. UCS representatives are referring to this as a blatant “abuse of power” on the part of the government and ExxonMobil.

Gretchen Goldman, a lead analyst for UCS, wrote: “Abuse of power is when a company exploits its vast political network to squash policies that would address climate change.”

The complete list of nonprofits subpoenaed by Chairman Smith includes: 350.org, the Climate Accountability Institute, the Climate Reality Project, Greenpeace, Pawa Law Group PC, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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Twin Sisters Try To Get Pregnant With Ovaries They Froze In 2009  

Each twin had an ovary removed and frozen in 2009, when they were in their 30s, in hopes of buying more time to get pregnant and have babies. But will the thawed, reimplanted ovaries work?

 
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Fossils, islands and forests added to UNESCO World Heritage List  
Designation of several new sites around the world as having outstanding natural value to humanity could aid conservation and bring in money from tourists  
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Do more now to deliver on climate promises, world leaders told  
The Elders, a group of prominent dignitaries, have issued a statement calling on governments to stop backtracking on the Paris summit's commitments  
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HM Coastguard goes into battle against waterborne Pokemon  

As Reg news team snare art desk menacing Charizard

Suspicions are rising that Pokemon Go is some sort of massive Darwinian experiment, after HM Coastguard was forced to warn the UK populace about the dangers of attempting to capture waterborne varieties of the non-existence pocket monsters.…

 
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The Tiny Irish Island That Will Welcome American Refugees  

Inishturk, Ireland, has a population of 58 and its people—according to a widely circulated Internet rumor—have offered refuge to any Americans who want to flee from a Donald Trump presidency. This charming documentary by MEL Films, Make Inishturk Great Again, takes us to the sparsely inhabited island to get the locals' perspectives on America, the presidential election, and what Trump has said about Ireland. The film has an obvious perspective on Trump that is far from impartial, but it's entertaining and adventurous nonetheless. To see more films from MEL, visit their website and Vimeo page.

 
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Can Big Data Help Head Off Police Misconduct?  

An officer who's been under stress after responding to cases of domestic abuse or suicide may be at higher risk of a negative interaction with the public, a data scientist says.

 
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