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Article — 1 July 2024 — 1,082 words

Reflecting on two years as a user experience consultant; looking ahead to working on structured content

Digital — Information architecture — User experience — Work

The latest chapter in my career has closed, as I have found an incredibly exciting new opportunity. But the past couple of years have given me a lot to reflect on.

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Article — 23 August 2021 — 988 words

Overlaps between user experience and other disciplines — a benefit, not a problem

User experience

A large teal block overlapping with five differently coloured stripes

Have you ever been told that by doing human-centred work you’re stepping on someone else’s toes? I have heard it a number of times. More and more people are exploring the apparent overlaps between human-centred approaches and other disciplines.

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Article — 21 June 2019 — 640 words

How do service design approaches need to improve, and what is the next step?

Design — Service design — User experience

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How do service design approaches need to improve, and what is the next step?

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Article — 24 April 2019 — 328 words

Coming face to face with real life at the Service Design Academy user research bootcamp

Design — User experience — Work

Our research wall from the bootcamp

I’ve had a great time over the past two days on the Service Design Academy’s user research bootcamp. These bootcamps are truly intensive. We were working with a live brief in a serious problem space.

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Article — 14 October 2016 — 964 words

The vital lesson digital designers must learn from architecture’s postwar mistakes

Design — Digital — User experience

Elephant and Castle statue

Like the mid-century modernists, today’s digital designers are creating the future. Some digital designers are making the same fundamental mistakes.

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