Some things I've written. Some selected accolades.

The leadership playbook isn’t “move faster” or “be tougher.” It’s learning to hold urgency and steadiness at the same time. It’s sharing power, not hoarding it. It’s investing in your communication skills as much as your technical skills. In my experience, that’s what creates teams and products that thrive, even when everything else is on unstable ground.

My personal highlights from this years WWDC announcements, and some predictions about what Apple Silicon could mean for personal computing.

Reflecting on how Basecamp approached the problem of rethink email, with their new product: Hey.

This year I was delighted to be invited to a Judge for the Webby Awards. As part of the European Members group who independently assess the entries online.

I was invited to join Paul Boag on his podcast to talk about the benefits and defining success metrics on client projects.

Definitions for a core set of commonly used terms in the digital design process. How I describe these terms shows gives insight into my process and principles in more depth.

After the recent addition of Amazon's Prime Video app on Apple TV I examine the pro and cons of choosing to go platform native, or design to be consistent with your existing apps on other platforms.
 

The Times Raconteur supplement wrote another forward-thinking issue on the future of retail and approach me to contribute from a user experience perspective.

I started a podcast talking about design and running a digital agency. I recorded 24 episodes, with over 1,000 regular listeners that was regularly in the top lists on Product Hunt.

I decided to track the download weights of mobile apps over the course of 6 weeks to see how much bandwidth updates took. The results shocked me.

Occasionally you meet companies with a drive and vision to be the very best at what they do, but that’s not always enough to stay ahead of the competition. A visionary company needs people with the courage to try something so different it may cannibalise their existing business model.

I was recently ask to quote on a piece for the Times Raconteur Digital Economy Supplement. An interesting piece asking how artificial intelligence might affect consumer behaviour online.

We were Fuentes to work with a company called LooWatt whose product was being deployed in Madagascar. After building our prototypes we went out there to test our ideas on tech ground.

When you’re too close to something it can be difficult to get new ideas flowing. We tried some new techniques to tackle a common problem from a new perspective.

An idea I came up with after playing with early clipboard managers, something I thought would work much better as a platform feature. Universal clipboard was later announced the following WWDC.

Find my friends is a feature I use regularly, but I’ve always found the way it works confusing. In this post I redesign it to be simpler and more of an integral system, feature.