I frequently talk to clients who have an existing website or mobile application which isn’t getting the results they want. There are many reasons a digital product may not be hitting the heights you hoped for; let’s take a look a few of them. Reason One: Unrealistic Expectations

It’s not easy being User Experience in 2017. You can notice me across a wide range of digital products in many industries, but I’m not very well understood. It’s frustrating because all I want to do is help. Sometimes, people mistake me for Visual Design, which I’m not. Don’t get…

As we become more and more used to instant gratification, we’ve become a disconnected from seeing all the hard work it takes to reach the desired outcome. This is because most of this hard work was done in the past and we are building on great work done before us…

I wrote an article about a month ago published by prototypr.io and since that time I’ve had quite a few people reach out to me asking me questions. What follows is the result of me sitting down to answer them. Context

Two months ago, when I started my second capstone project, getting my first full-time role as a UX Designer seemed so far away. It didn’t feel any closer when I worked on my third project and completed it in about a week. Sure, the process was getting easier, but the…

I recently started a passion project which I had been avoiding for years. I have been taking photos for the best part of a decade and doing nothing with them. …

Those of you with particularly excellent memories may remember I wrote an article in December, a couple of weeks after starting UX Academy. The more perceptive of you may also realise I should have finished by the end of March. I did not. Life happened. And then it happened again…

My goal in life is simple. I want to be happy. But happiness only exists because of suffering. It’s entirely relative. Without experiencing negative emotions, the positive wouldn’t be positive anymore. They would just ‘be’. As much as I seek positive experiences to help me in my quest for happiness…

We are programmed to seek validation for our writing. It really isn’t our fault, though. The process of receiving validation and praise began the day we created our first finger painting as a child. On that day we were told how great our work was, and how clever we are. …