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A financial affiliate and lead generation startup – from concept to MVP

An exciting FinTech opportunity to externalise an internal data-enriched, compliance-centric, affiliate marketing tool? There’s an MVP for that!

Posted on 9th December 201923rd March 2023
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Redesigning the search results page for a clinical decision support tool

Will the removal of informational elements negatively impact the search results page of a clinical decision support tool?

Posted on 31st January 201821st March 2023
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Taking the BS out of design decision-making

Recent research suggests that we are incredibly bad at taking differences in competence into account when making group decisions. Is acknowledgement of this cognitive bias a cure for digital ‘bikeshedding’? Perhaps…

Posted on 2nd April 202115th December 2022
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The case for Evolutionary Prototyping

Should our prototyping endeavours become more ‘evolutionary’? In theory, yes – less waste, more efficiencies – but can this approach work in practice? Can a UX/UI Designer/Dev hybrid make it happen?

Posted on 11th October 202015th December 2022
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Ideation, Prototyping & MVP Development for a global online research course

Building a global healthcare research tool: Is Lean UX’s build-measure-learn paradigm the right choice to get us there?

Posted on 2nd October 20176th December 2019
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UX Design for the ‘shopping bag’ page of an e-commerce disruptor

Shopping Bag UX (freelance): Quick wins to improve usability and increase conversion rates of the ‘Shopping Bag’ page for an e-commerce company.

Posted on 15th August 201712th April 2018
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Onboarding and Interaction Cost

Research shows that usage metrics take a dive as interaction costs increase. Keeping this ‘cost / payback paradigm’ in mind when designing your UI is critically important…

Posted on 1st June 20179th April 2018
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The magnifying-glass Icon: An issue of recognition, location or labelling?

Users usually recognise that a magnifying-glass icon indicates a search tool, even when it has no label. Unfortunately, showing only the icon makes search more difficult to find.

Posted on 17th July 201430th March 2018
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Improving the search journey through ideation

Is adding extra interactions a UX anti-pattern? Can additional interaction cost ever be a good idea? Is it counterintuitive to good UX to add interactions when we generally try to make tasks more efficient?

Posted on 2nd February 201730th March 2018
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Pinkkies: UI Design & Development for a (very) specific user group

Designing for a niche market: Building loyalty & trust through UI/UX Design for new mums (and the things that you learn as a freelance UX/UI designer!)

Posted on 2nd June 20176th December 2019
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Protected: PostCSS for Legacy Browsers

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Posted on 7th April 201720th April 2018
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Agile unabated can devalue your design – but that’s not our fault (rant)

Yes. Design can be an agile anti-pattern, a sprint blocker. But that’s not the fault of the front end guys – it’s the handover, stupid! Right?!

Posted on 1st March 201718th January 2019

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Hi, I’m Michael

I'm a UX & UI Specialist, currently doing Human-Centred Design at LivaNova PLC (MedTech)!

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