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The Village and the Haters

Once there was a village and in it lived many types of people from all over the land, the Mayor, a few rich merchants and a small group called the Haters.

ToDo Hack

Here’s my todo/pm hack – I use the stickies app on MacOS to list my current projects or tasks, and the length indicates the size or how much is left. Just for approximation.

Are you Agile?

I think that most companies that say they practice Agile are kidding themselves.

The digital design and UX design professions seem to be having a great moment of introspection lately, some of it raising important discussion, whilst a lot of it descends into pedantic shouting on social media.

4 days a week

I have now started working 4 days a week. Friday was the first time that I did it. In terms of activities, the day was not just free time, but the crucial bit was that there was no laptop, there was no constant feeling of angst or guilt about “I should be working on something”.

Finland

Something I sketched in Paper awhile ago.

Pink slime

You know Ghostbusters 2, where there’s all that pink slime and it’s making people really angry and mean? Social media and most popular media is that pink slime.

The UX is in the bag

Sainsburys self checkout till — Enough hints?

Back to the word

And we’re back.

After running Jekyll for a few years, I’m back on WordPress. I just need to write, and easily from any device. I need a workflow that works from anyhwere.

So apologies if things look a little broken, this is a fixer-upper!

FEDUX

I have been doing full time UX for about 5 years, but I love keeping up with my frontend developer teams, and I’m fascinated to see how they work today.