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Design & Leadership
March 2025Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Your effectiveness as a leader has less to do with what happens daily and more to do with your self-awareness.
March 2025My Ethos
It's important to have an ethos, some core principles that drive who you are. It's also important to make them short and pithy for those that have short attention spans.
December 2024Making Good Trouble
As designers and researchers, it can often feel like we’re in a constant state of reaction, adjusting to feasibility decisions from engineering or responding to product management around viability.
August 2022A balance of predicability and surprise
I wake up in the morning later than I want to, head to the kitchen and make coffee – it's a simple task I undertake every morning.
August 2022Creating a UX strategy
As a leader steering your team in the right direction while dealing with daily challenges is incredibly hard to scale without a deliberate plan.
June 202212 elements of design leadership
In an interview the common question that comes up is about my leadership style, my answer is about how interchangeable the communication methods are but how there are consistent elements.
Personal
February 2025My Perfect Sunday Device
Fifteen years into the iPad era, I’ve been mulling over my perfect device that feels almost like an iPad but isn’t.
January 20252024 a year reviewed
A year of photography, art, travel and change.
December 2023Alternative email sign offs
alternatives to thanks, sincerly or any kind of regards.
January 2022What made my 2022
most of it was working from the same chair.
July 2020Coffee
a running list of some UK coffee roasters.
June 2019Thirty
things I am trying to think or do this year.
April 2019Bucket List
you can learn a lot from someone's bucket list.
June 2018Twenty Nine
the almost thirty phase.
November 2017So long and thanks for the Poutine
the end of an adventure and moving back to England.
November 2017Things that make me happy
a collection of things that bring me happiness, mostly for me.
June 2017Twenty Eight
mostly thoughts of food this year.
July 2016The Big Canadian Adventure
on moving to Canada and starting a new life.
June 2016Twenty Seven
a set of Canadian crossroads.
May 2015Twenty Six
self reflection for the year.
June 2014Twenty Five
obvious things I wanted to write down.