Pastures new
After almost two years at SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), I have decided to move on. The opportunity to work with the University of Edinburgh Website Programme was too good to ignore.
Category: Digital
How to improve your job stories
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This month’s digital design digest features a couple of articles about getting the most out of job stories. Plus, promising news from the world of CSS, how the Guardian is increasing its subscriber numbers, and where government goes wrong with digital transformation.
Why people are losing trust in the media — and advertisers
Why people are losing trust in the media and advertisers, why ugly websites succeed, and why it’s time to ditch PDFs.
Implementing HTTPS
I put off making my website more secure because I dreaded it would be difficult. In the end it was a ten minute job.
Ten years of twitting about
In ten years, Twitter has transformed from a geek enclave to a mainstream form of communication. But I find it difficult to imagine signing up to Twitter today.
The perils of the ‘launch and leave’ approach to project management
Our perspective on how a digital product should be managed is strongly influenced by our background and our role. That certainly helps explain some of the difficult conversations I have had over the years.
The vital lesson digital designers must learn from architecture’s postwar mistakes
Like the mid-century modernists, today’s digital designers are creating the future. Some digital designers are making the same fundamental mistakes.
Running themes from Scotland’s first accessibility conference
Accessibility Scotland was a high quality event with a diverse range of speakers. Find out what I took away from the event.
The fight we face for the web’s future
The web is facing many challenges from new technologies, threatening the open culture that made it such a success. We need to fight for its survival.
Is it time to put LinkedIn in the bin?
Microsoft recently announced that it will acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. But do any of LinkedIn’s users actually derive value from it?
Today’s newspaper circulation figures show why clickbait is a losing strategy
The free versus paywall debate was a red herring. What matters is the quality of the product.
Apple’s emoji problem just got worse
This is how Apple’s latest emoji design could cause some serious misunderstandings.