Design

  • Advertising meets UX

    Advertising meets UX

    I’ve only just discovered Rory Sutherland but the points he makes are very relevant to the fields of UX and CX.

  • Why do websites still suck for reading?

    Why do websites still suck for reading?

    I read a lot of books and I love a good newspaper. So why is it hard to love reading online?

  • A short tale about online banking and service design

    A short tale about online banking and service design

    A personal reflection on online banking versus using branches.

  • 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.

  • Joe Pesci

    Joe Pesci

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

  • Working in digital

    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!

  • Are you Agile?

    Are you Agile?

    I think that most companies that say they practice Agile are kidding themselves.

  • The Great Design Discourse

    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.

  • Designing VUIs

    Designing VUIs

    Chatbots are taking over! GUIs and NUIs are so last year! Artificial Intelligence is so darn good and freely available that you can just speak and make it so.

  • What the Internet of Things means for Interaction Design

    What the Internet of Things means for Interaction Design

    As someone who has spent most of my career designing and building websites, I tend to think of interaction design within the realm of explicit interactions.

  • Computers and HTML

    Computers and HTML

    Growing up I got into computers around the age of 7. I started with a ZX Spectrum +, then a +2, then an Atari ST.

  • How to write great content for your audience

    How to write great content for your audience

    Good writing on the web takes commitment and skill. It’s the difference between a website with a great user experience and a mediocre one, yet we still struggle to give it the same importance as we do to web design and build.