Remaining resilient while working from home Resilience is a topic I’m particularly passionate about. My day job is working for the online education division of a university and my role is focused on improving our students’ experiences through innovative new ideas. Resilience is a significant issue for students studying online…

Cooking up a storm when facilitating an online meeting I recall watching Huey’s Cooking Adventures (hosted by 90s’ Australian Celebrity chef Iain ‘Huey’ Hewitson) at my nan’s house after school and that guy used a tool for everything in the kitchen. Huey would use a food processor and garlic press…

Maintaining a quality team culture when working from home When an entire team starts working from home it can be a complicated challenge. Imagine if you came into the office one day and the entire team had to be relocated to another floor with minimal preparation and planning. In this…

The unintended benefits and pitfalls of working from home Some of you may be working from home or about to commence working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and consequently need to socially isolate. …

Things you forget about when working from home When working from home there are several things to consider that you may not have considered. Most people just think about their work environment first, particularly their workspace and tools. They will ask themselves, “Do I have the right equipment to access…

Speculative writing and illustrations can be great tools for exploring how new technology might look like and operate in the real world. By applying data, research, observation, design and informed thinking, we can anticipate some of the unintended consequences of emerging technology. If you’re like me, you’ve had idealised visions…

I use a bunch of different techniques to come up with game ideas. There’s a terrible stigma that creativity just happens to people in a ‘lightning bolt moment’. People conjure up images of the tormented creative staring at the ocean until they are inspired. It might work that way some…

Imagine you start sketching and you accidentally smudge ink across the page or, worse, you accidentally spill your coffee or red wine on the page. Rather than fix the sketch, you scrunch it up and throw the page in the bin. You now stare at a new clean sheet of…

The danger of redesigning existing products for free I've sensed a disturbance in the force of design. Extremely talented people are redesigning existing products such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Spotify and other tools for free. I’ve seen many blog posts and Medium articles about UXers and designers having taken established tools…