Jane Murison's guest appearances

Jane Murison

The Shinybees Knitting and Yarn Podcast

2LO Rebooted

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Stephen West

Susan Crawford

Paula Abdul

Kate Davies

Chris Burns

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Carol Feller

Sir Terry Pratchett

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Amy Herzog

Michelle Obayda

Clare Devine

Rachel Brown

OwlTail

Jane is Design Director at Reason Digital, a social enterprise that makes digital things for good causes, with clients like Refuge, Age UK and The Trussell Trust. Before that, she spent 18 years in the BBC UX&amp;D team, on a whole bunch of different products like iPlayer, BBC Sport, CBeebies and CBBC, Red Button and Bitesize. She’s interested in building ethical experiences, trauma-informed research and design practices, knitting and karate. You can check out Reason Digital here: https://reasondigital.com/

Jane is Design Director at Reason Digital, a social enterprise that makes digital things for good causes, with clients like Refuge, Age UK and The Trussell Trust. Before that, she spent 18 years in the BBC UX&amp;D team, on a whole bunch of different products like iPlayer, BBC Sport, CBeebies and CBBC, Red Button and Bitesize. She’s interested in building ethical experiences, trauma-informed research and design practices, knitting and karate. <br/><br/>You can check out Reason Digital here: <a href="https://reasondigital.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://reasondigital.com/</a>

#13 EQUALISING THE POWER BALANCE IN UX RESEARCH - Jane Murison

Jane Murison of Yarnison joins the show this week, talking about knitwear design, fish and chips and the urban landscape as an inspiration.  Jane began designing a couple of years ago, and has several knitting patterns now, that are a homage to the post industrial landscape of Manchester, that she sees every day on her walk to work. A UX designer by profession, Jane enjoys bringing together design inspiration, techniques and the user (knitter) experience in her designs. Not one for 'quiet' yarns, she enjoys working with bold colours and neons to create striking pieces.  Her approach to design is to make things that she herself likes to wear, but struggles to find in the mainstream pattern world. This results in quite quirky and recognisable pieces that can be made as bold or as quiet as one desires, depending upon the colours chosen to make the pattern.  One of my favourite of her patterns is the Urban Hero shawl, which was inspired by the neon yellow flashes of hi-vis vests on the builders working all over the city. There is almost constant construction work, and these vests pepper the (often grey, it's Manchester) landscape with pinpricks of colour.  We discussed the juxtaposition of chevron lace, hi-vis and Batman's cape in this pattern and Jane explained how her approach has ben reflected in other designs, such as Boomtown Beanie.  Builders came up again when discussing how the domestic arts and quite traditionally male construction roles are actually very similar skills when you break them down. Plastering is, in fact, exactly the same thing as buttercream icing.  We also discussed the traditional Friday meal that is fish and chips. Eye-opening.  Jane's favourite yarnies to work with are Countess Ablaze, The Knitting Goddess, Five Moons, Riverknits and Rainbow Heirloom.  In terms of tips for embracing the crazy bright and variegated, Jane recommends pairing with a semi-solid or solid, and avoiding too much detail in the stitches, if you want the detail to be seen. Texture can sometimes work well if you are wanting to play with the colour and create unexpected pops, as she does with her Manhole Cover sock pattern.  In terms of designers that make good patterns that are suitable for pairing with variegated yarns, Jane recommends Curious Handmade's Helen Stewart and Martina Behm (Strickmich).  From her own designs, Urban Festival was specifically created to work with the variegated yarns.  You can find everything about Jane's patterns over on Ravelry and she is @Yarnison on Instagram.  Full show notes, images and links for this episode are at www.shinybees.com/110

<p>Jane Murison of Yarnison joins the show this week, talking about knitwear design, fish and chips and the urban landscape as an inspiration.  Jane began designing a couple of years ago, and has several knitting patterns now, that are a homage to the post industrial landscape of Manchester, that she sees every day on her walk to work. A UX designer by profession, Jane enjoys bringing together design inspiration, techniques and the user (knitter) experience in her designs. Not one for 'quiet' yarns, she enjoys working with bold colours and neons to create striking pieces.  Her approach to design is to make things that she herself likes to wear, but struggles to find in the mainstream pattern world. This results in quite quirky and recognisable pieces that can be made as bold or as quiet as one desires, depending upon the colours chosen to make the pattern.  One of my favourite of her patterns is the Urban Hero shawl, which was inspired by the neon yellow flashes of hi-vis vests on the builders working all over the city. There is almost constant construction work, and these vests pepper the (often grey, it's Manchester) landscape with pinpricks of colour.  We discussed the juxtaposition of chevron lace, hi-vis and Batman's cape in this pattern and Jane explained how her approach has ben reflected in other designs, such as Boomtown Beanie.  Builders came up again when discussing how the domestic arts and quite traditionally male construction roles are actually very similar skills when you break them down. Plastering is, in fact, exactly the same thing as buttercream icing.  We also discussed the traditional Friday meal that is fish and chips. Eye-opening.  Jane's favourite yarnies to work with are Countess Ablaze, The Knitting Goddess, Five Moons, Riverknits and Rainbow Heirloom.  In terms of tips for embracing the crazy bright and variegated, Jane recommends pairing with a semi-solid or solid, and avoiding too much detail in the stitches, if you want the detail to be seen. Texture can sometimes work well if you are wanting to play with the colour and create unexpected pops, as she does with her Manhole Cover sock pattern.  In terms of designers that make good patterns that are suitable for pairing with variegated yarns, Jane recommends Curious Handmade's Helen Stewart and Martina Behm (Strickmich).  From her own designs, Urban Festival was specifically created to work with the variegated yarns.  You can find everything about Jane's patterns over on <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/stores/yarnison" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ravelry</a> and she is @Yarnison on Instagram.  Full show notes, images and links for this episode are at <a href="http://www.shinybees.com/110" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.shinybees.com/110</a></p>

Ep 110 - An Interview with Jane Murison of Yarnison

Colin Burns

Jacek Barcikowski

Earlier this year the UX&amp;D team - user experience and design - held a great event called FailFest where they discussed the importance of failure and shared examples of times when things didn’t quite go to plan.  It was a valuable exercise in honesty, and prompted a wide debate about the ways in which failure can help a project and what can be learned from failing and opening up about it. We hear from  Jacek Barcikowski, Jane Murison and Colin Burns.

Failwail with Colin Burns, Jane Murison & Jacek Barcikowski