Journal

Onboarding people into product teams

Tips for mitigating problems when bringing new people into product teams
Working principles for product experiences

How to define working principles to drive the right product decisions
Explore/Expand/Extract cheatsheet

A cheatsheet for teams navigating through major phases of growth and maturity
Running better design critiques

Design critiques are the quickest way of improving our work and our learning
Choosing type and finding fonts

Finding the right type isn’t difficult when you know what you’re looking for
Aligned values

Doing our best work depends on aligning our values and our beliefs
Content is the fuel

It’s not what comes first, but the relationship between content and design that matters
‘The Mindful Designer’ Talk

Watch the talk I gave in Nottingham at New Adventures In Web Design 2012
A New Approach (Pt II)

Part two in a series documenting a ‘mobile first’ + responsive approach
A New Approach (Pt I)

Part one in a series documenting my experience of designing for the web in a different way
Interface Design Mantras

A summary of my ‘Interface Design Mantras’ talk at Refresh Edinburgh in February 2011
How I learned to read again

How I revived my RSS reading with the iPad, Instapaper and Reeder
Redesigning for a shift of focus

A quick run-down of things old and new in the amalgamation of my portfolio site and blog
Gathering site content

Content gathering and authoring is too important to leave until the last minute
iPad: workaholic’s best friend?

Why I think the touted drawbacks of the iPad are it’s saving grace for workaholics like me
How I present designs to clients

How I present designs to clients using a combination of a graphics app, HTML and CSS
Goodbye Line, hello FreeAgent

I'm leaving my position at Line to join FreeAgent at the end of April
John & Ro’s wedding invites

The process of designing letterpress wedding invites for two of my friends
Reasons to avoid single-line CSS

Why I believe it’s better to avoid single-line formatting your CSS
Mockups: Bridging the gap

Be realistic when presenting type in a mockup — get it in the browser
The relevance of wireframes

Why you should wireframe, who is responsible and why it can go wrong.
Make yourself (un)comfortable

If you want to keep progressing as a designer, get out of your comfort zone.
A beginning

Late to the party? You don’t say. But better late than never, I finally have a blog.