Digital

Linknote — 20 October 2017 — 47 words

Getting titles wrong: what you can learn from our mistake – John Ploughman, Inside GOV.UK

Getting the title of your content right is vital. When you get it right, users can find it and use it. When you get it wrong, it can really cause problems.

Linknote — 19 October 2017 — 46 words

Digital

Why transformation fails – and how to avoid it – Paul Taylor

A short but rip-roaring post about what needs to change about change.

If you step behind the rhetoric of transformation you’ll see it is usually about reinforcing existing business models rather than truly challenging them.

Linknote — 18 October 2017 — 27 words

Digital — Human-centred approaches — User experience

A brief rant on the future of interaction design

A fascinating perspective on why futuristic interfaces need to think beyond the touch screen — “Pictures Under Glass”.

Linknote — 17 October 2017 — 36 words

Digital — Human-centred approaches

Sympathy card to a front-end developer

This developer actually was suffering a great loss: the death of his aging, outdated user interface. And his loss followed the familiar pattern of grieving—the five stages of grief…

Article — 9 October 2017 — 383 words

Nobel economics prize: Richard Thaler and behavioural economics

Digital — Economics — User experience

Richard Thaler has won the Nobel economics prize for his work in behavioural economics. Knowing about this area is essential if you are a designer, to help you gain an understanding of what makes people tick.

Article — 6 October 2017 — 1,660 words

Why the cruel culture of coding is damaging society

Business — Digital — Technology

When a former Google engineer’s ill-informed anti-diversity essay became news during the summer, it shone a light on problems with the the tech industry’s makeup. The diversity issue is the tip of the iceberg. A host of cultural problems face the tech scene.

Linknote — 5 October 2017 — 9 words

Digital

Minimum viable products – A practical approach – Andrew Crow

Linknote — 3 October 2017 — 34 words

Digital — Media

The Las Vegas shootings highlighted a nasty flaw in Google’s Top Stories algorithm. It’s one that could be exploited.

Linknote — 2 October 2017 — 7 words

Digital — User experience

Stop shaming your users for micro conversions

Article — 22 April 2017 — 767 words

Pastures new

Digital — Personal

Work: SRUC — Scotland’s Rural College, The University of Edinburgh

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.