Konrad Bloor

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Thailand

Four-faced Brahma shrine beneath a red temple arch
Watching the hazy sea from the promenade
Waves on the sand at sunset
A beach dog trots past as a worker rakes the shore
Sun through a grove of coconut palms
A monk walking a village street at dawn

Vietnam

Old bicycle against a weathered wall in Hoi An
Looking up between city high-rises
Fishing boat among the karsts of Ha Long Bay
Security guard resting by a row of cars
Motorbikes streaming past in motion blur
Street life framed through a shophouse doorway

Work

Safa

I'm currently working on a school management system, in an iterative discovery loop: building prototypical parts of the system, putting them in front of users, and folding their feedback into each iteration — progressively uncovering an unfamiliar domain and its vocabulary. Over time converging on UI/UX that works for the end users, and refactoring repeated patterns.

HeliosX

As Head of Engineering, I was responsible for technology strategy and line management as the company grew from £1.3m to £4m per month.

Malaysia

Outside Pavilion mall, Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur
Museum of Islamic Art, Kuala Lumpur
Back of old shop houses, Kuala Lumpur
Penang coast near Batu Ferringhi, from the road on my morning bike ride
Georgetown, Penang in the night after the rain
Some of the many old closed shophouses in Georgetown, Penang

Canaries

Sunlit residential street in the Canaries
Whitewashed chimney tower against a deep blue sky
Misty coastal cliffs meeting the Atlantic
Volcano framed through a circular mirador window
Aloe vera plant in a wire basket
Layered rock walls of a barranco ravine

Build

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ResearchTech

Research distribution software that makes it much simpler to analyse your readership behaviour, distribute to customers and aggregators, and author collaboratively.

ResearchTech branding editor previewing a research site
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Zickt

Handle email and live chat customer support with multiple teams from a single pane of glass or from Slack. Help center/documentation microsites.

Zickt shared support inbox with email and live chat

Write

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Feedback Loop Field Guide

As an EM or an IC, the more you ground your work in what the world is telling you, the more effective it can be. I tried to catalogue all the feedback loops I could think of, and the different ways they could be cut.

The Feedback Loop Field Guide chart, loops plotted by latency
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Decisions

There are many recurring decisions a product company faces — and for those decisions there are a range of feedback loops that can inform the decision.

Recurring Decisions page, loops stacked fastest-proxy to slowest-truth

India

A black-and-yellow auto rickshaw crossing a Mumbai street
Gorai jetty at 07:30
The Global Vipassana Pagoda rising gold against a clear sky
The pagoda through the morning haze, above the mangroves
An elderly couple in conversation on a bench by a shuttered shopfront
A divided suburban road, rickshaws and a motorbike sharing the lane