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Human-centred decisions

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Article — 18 June 2021 — 1,429 words

Why I talk about human-centred approaches

Human-centred approaches — Service design — User experience

Human-centred approaches include... user experience, interaction design, lean thinking, behavioural insights, service design, design thinking ...anything as long as they put humans at the centre of decisions

It is difficult to find a phrase that exactly describes my work and the way I approach it. I’ve started to talk about human-centred approaches. This post explains what I mean by that.

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Article — 11 March 2020 — 2,196 words

View from Service Design in Government 2020

Service design — User research

Work: The University of Edinburgh

View of Arthur's Seat from the conference venue

Last week I attended the Service Design in Government conference, held here in Edinburgh. It was a hugely thought-provoking event. Almost every session I attended was excellent, sparking new ideas and thoughts that I am still getting to grips with almost a week on.

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Article — 11 February 2016 — 1,059 words

Path dependence in user experience: why it’s OK that phones are different to calculators

User experience

Early electronic calculator

Designers like to fret about the differing keypad layouts on calculators and phones. But economics tells us it may not be such a problem after all.

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