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I occasionally blog. It’s primarily for my own benefit, and – given time – I’d do it much more often and to a much higher standard!! It serves as a repo for ideas, interests & rants. Thoughts are my own.

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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
Evolutionary prototyping
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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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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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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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Embracing Accessibility in Agile Workflows (part 2)

Part 2 of Embedding accessibility into an Agile workflow, with a more detailed focus on the steps involved. I don’t take any credit for this content, other than editing it down to a digestible list of sorts.

Posted on 20th January 201716th March 2018
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Embracing Accessibility in Agile Workflows (part 1)

Embedding accessibility into an Agile workflow is a tough assignment. As an A11y advocate, this is the first of 2 posts where I detail how it might be done (with a big shout out to Karl Groves)

Posted on 10th November 201620th March 2023
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Protected: Articles of note

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Posted on 29th April 201620th April 2018
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App UX: Conversion Optimisation Framework (from Google Think)

The ‘Mobile App UX Principles report’ is a conversion optimisation framework defining the key considerations to improve app UX, optimise conversion and measure performance. It covers the whole customer journey … thanks Google!

Posted on 11th August 20162nd February 2018
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Is Apple Really Giving Design A Bad Name? You kiddin’ me?

Is it time to question Apple’s position as design leaders and shine a light on their design philosophy? “Apple is destroying design. Worse, it is revitalizing the old belief that design is only about making things look pretty. No, not so!” … so said Norman and Tog. Wow!

Posted on 12th January 201620th April 2018

Hi, I’m Michael

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

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B.A. (Econ) H.Dip. App.Sc. (Soft. Eng.) PG.Dip (HCI)
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