Design

Advertising meets UX

I’ve only just discovered Rory Sutherland and there’s so much good stuff in his lectures (this video is a pretty good overview). I’m not in advertising, but the points he makes are very relevant to the fields of UX and CX.
Why does digital still suck for reading?

I love to read. I read a lot of books, I love a good magazine, and I am really partial to the design of the Weekend Financial Times. It seems like print is still king when it comes to creative layouts that have impact and that are a pleasure to look at and read.
A short tale about online banking service design

Once upon a time, you went to your branch and ATMs to manage your affairs. You had your bank card, you had you, you had the person behind the counter, and they would do most of the work for you.
RSS

I made a conscious decision to pretty much stay off twitter earlier this year. It is a terrible time-suck, it is a firehose of all kinds of things that will rob you of your sanity and faith in humankind. It also did not help my state of anxiety at the time.
UX Designer wanted

Was reading this article about UX Designers in Grafia (a Finnish Graphic Design magazine), and I had to laugh at this because so far in my experience it rings really true. The definition and reality of what your role as a UX Designer can vary a great deal.
Joe Pesci

The best thing in “The Irishman” was, without a doubt, the frames worn by Joe Pesci. So damn stylish.
Notifications

Every time I go into macOS settings, I think I have a notification about notifications. In general that little red dot has become a horrible, ubiquitous distraction.
Working in digital

Do you remember when people first started talking about this new kind of industry you could get into: ‘New Media’, ‘Digital’, ‘Web Design’? I do!
ToDo Hack

Here’s my todo/pm hack – I use the stickies app on MacOS to list my current projects or tasks, and the length indicates the size or how much is left. Just for approximation.
Are you Agile?

I think that most companies that say they practice Agile are kidding themselves.
The Great Design Discourse

The digital design and UX design professions seem to be having a great moment of introspection lately, some of it raising important discussion, whilst a lot of it descends into pedantic shouting on social media.
The UX is in the bag