It can be hard to see your users in person. Time constraints, conflicting schedules, and deadlines can all get in the way.
For myself and my team in Liberty IT to visit our users it involves two flights, 17 hours of traveling, and a little cry watching Mamma Mia along…
At the end of September three of my teammates in Liberty IT and I travelled to Bangkok to carry out user testing on the application we are building for LMG Insurance Thailand. Planning the trip we were under no illusions that this would be a normal user testing session. Jet-lag…
I’m recently 25 years old and in my quarter of a century lifetime, how we take in content has changed dramatically. In my childhood, we watched VCR tapes on tiny screen CRT TVs and cartoons on Saturday mornings on one of the four channels we had in Ireland. Now, my…
What happens when you and your boyfriend quit your jobs at the same time? You go on a road trip clearly! Recently we managed to line up two weeks off together before we both started new jobs. We tossed up a trip to Thailand as well as a road trip…
I am terrible at sharing my photos. I take hundreds then maybe share three on Instagram months later. This is me trying to get better at that by sharing the photos and video of an evenings walk around my old college, Maynooth University.
This may sound a little meta, a blog post about blog posts? A couple of weeks ago I listened to the guys from The Product Breakfast Club interview Julie Zhuo, Facebook’s VP of Product Design, and a certain statement stuck with me. She mentioned when she first started writing, she…
Have you ever had a moment where you learned something new about a tool you’ve been using for years? Something that’s incredibly useful and so blatantly obvious that you want to find the nearest mirror or shiny surface and scream COME ON alá Andy in Cougar Town? Yeah, I’ve been…
I am part of the Facebook Generation. In my midteens, I packed my cringe-inducing photos and left Bebo for the bright lights and shiny newness of Facebook. This also means that by my mid-twenties the company and social media that I once thought was the best facet of the internet…
First things first, this isn’t my first attempt at doing this, and by this, I mean attempting to start writing. I tried starting a design related blog back when I was in college doing my undergrad and failed badly. So badly I forgot it happened until I started working on…
