What happens when the logic of UX, design, and code collides directly with the most unprogrammable thing of all: human emotion?
Read MoreCommunity & UX Design — Building the ‘Book Twitter’ Effect
Everyone knows that when staring at a blank screen faced with writing a new article, the ideas don’t always come, but something that made me laugh was @sambfarkas summing up what she misses most about the ‘Old Book Twitter’— make-up recommendations! And this got me thinking. It wasn’t really about makeup, it was about community, and that has everything to do with UX design.
Read MoreThe Colour of Control: Using Visual Language to Signal Power Dynamics
I’ve spent many years working with colour systems, typography, visual hierarchies and user behaviour. I know how fast a visual decision can be made. I also know that what we show, or choose not to show, has consequences.
Read MoreWhy Storytelling Matters in Tech Design
In both my day job as a UI Designer and UX consultant and my after-hours life as a novelist, I’ve come to see storytelling as more than a creative tool. It’s a design tool. A strategic one. One that can reshape how we approach digital experiences. Not just how they look and function, but how they feel, how they flow, and how they connect to something deeper in us.
Read MoreBringing Narrative Thinking to User Experience Design
How storytelling structures from fiction can deepen empathy, drive engagement, and future-proof your digital products.
Read MoreWhat the web can learn from old school Estate Agents
It is good to hear recently that Estate Agents have finally been pushed off the top spot of ‘most hated’ and ‘least trusted’ profession’ replaced by politicians, not so good! But let’s stick with Estate Agents for now.
Read MoreWhat is UX & UI
A short guide to the definitions of User Experience and User Interface Design and the power of their impact.
I am a pioneer of the methodologies and outstanding results of user experience to improve every day people’s experience online but in this article I want to just turn over a few stones as it were and see what we find.
Read MoreExplaining User-Experience Design
Exploring the idea of User Experience Design, how to optimise it and how it differs from normal design.
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