The Journal

Where we think in public about how wellness should feel. Essays, field notes and ideas from the Studio, the Lab and Mind.

A purple iris in a beam of light, half seen through fluted glass.A purple iris in a beam of light, half seen through fluted glass.The essayWhat entertainment knows that wellness forgot.For years the most careful design in the world was spent on keeping people watching. I spent those years inside it. This is what I carried out, what I left behind on purpose, and why I think wellness is where that craft belongs now.Read · 11 min read
  1. Lab5 min readWhy a design studio builds its own products.Advice is cheap until you have had to take it yourself. The Lab is where we test our own thinking on ventures we own, so the founders we work with get advice that has already survived contact with reality.
  2. Mind6 min readDesign your next chapter the way you would design a product.Designers have a set of habits for shaping things that do not exist yet. They work just as well on a career, a change or a creative block. An introduction to how coaching works at Hue & Heal Mind.
  3. Studio7 min readThis one moment defines the entire guest experience (and most hotels get it wrong)Arrival is your first hello. A walk through the brands that have turned check-in into a ceremony, and the Hue & Heal Guest Arrival Blueprint for hoteliers who want to do the same.
  4. Studio6 min readGoodbye nightclubs, hello third spaces: why wellness is the new nightlifeOthership's raise is a signal. Social wellness is becoming the new third space, and the principles behind it are a masterclass in experience design.
  5. Hue & Heal4 min readIntroducing Hue & HealWhy Hue & Heal exists, what we mean by feel good design, and what the Journal is for.

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