I know there's something here for me, and I'm gonna find it

This was also foundational; Creative Mornings was one of my first things I did when I moved to Edinburgh.

what I sort of found myself getting lost in was taking opportunities as they came because starting out you have to be a yes man.

(freelancing) we go up and down in peaks and troughs with our process and with our work, and find ourselves in lots of low points where we lose our sense of identity.

I don't just do everything for the sick child, I do it for the whole family

Everything we do is to make the children smile, it's to make the parents smile.

we boarded, they took off, we were only circling Edinburgh, they thought we were visiting Santa and we were, but not in Lapland

I can't change their treatment, I can't change the outcome of their treatment, but I can certainly make them smile inbetween.

It was only supposed to be a small support group, and I think there were 8 came the first time, and yet here we are 25 years later.

Gamers are not immediately who you think they are

It's so scary to give your stuff to people

The games industry is not just skewed in terms of genders, it's also skewed in terms of race, in terms of class, in terms of age and also in terms of the types of games we like to play.

Compared to the fact that it's almost 50/50 of people playing games; the fact we're not really that diverse at all when it comes to people making them gets to be a problem.

if games are broader than we thought they might be, then gamers must be broader as well.

when we actually think about what games are as a medium and what they could be, it's so much broader than these digital products that we would think of immediately

To me i'd say game UX is about balancing effort and ease

Dishonesty shuts that inner door, and when inner door shuts then outer doors shut too

my story made them open about their story

Connection is going to overrule all kinds of ideas.

That's how we connect, we find out something about the other.

and this is the part of honesty; you have to give something up, and when you do, most of the time, people give something back.

Honesty's got to do with giving something up about yourself

If you lose that contact with honesty, you lose the whole connection to your image

I just want to be a good person and I happen to be a designer.

The best things start to happen when I just let them.