Transition Streets Project Manager

Ruth has a degree in Psychology and an MSc in Environmental Science and is interested in the place where the two meet and how to motivate and support people to live in a way that is more in harmony with the natural world.

She is happiest outdoors and spent a lot of her childhood up trees and in woods and mountains. She lives in Ashburton and is part of a landshare collective including a woodland, meadow and forest garden where she grows fruit, nuts, flowers and some unusual herbs and vegetables with her husband, two children and six other families.

More recently she has been very involved with Extinction Rebellion.

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I feel so lucky and excited to be working on this project with TTT. Totnes has such a wealth of incredible people and projects that are so interwoven and inspiring. I can’t wait to get started.

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Faced with the prospect of following a convention, there’s a great temptation for designers to try reinventing the wheel instead, largely because they feel (not incorrectly) that they’ve been hired to do something new and different, not the same old thing. Not to mention the fact that praise from peers, awards, and high-profile job offers are rarely based on criteria like “best use of conventions.” Occasionally, time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But usually it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

Another needless source of question marks over people’s heads is links and buttons that aren’t obviously clickable. As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable — or not.

A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it’s worth. Take my word for it: It’s really that simple.

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