Recently I took part in a 30 mile mountain bike ride. It was quite a challenge and on reflection made me think about not only my cycling ability but also user experience design… naturally! This post explains how I’ve made the tenuous leap from mountain biking to UX and then to my thoughts on Jared Spool’s lunch. My [...]

A while ago I was asked by Michael Wilson of D-Lists if I’d be willing to answer a few questions. I double checked to make sure the graves hadn’t been disturbed, burnt the clothes I was wearing ‘that night’ and tentatively agreed. Thankfully Mike wasn’t working undercover and all he wanted to know was how I personally got [...]

A new site aimed at designers launched yesterday called sixcrayons. It consists of six front end web design blogs made for everybody that’s interested in learning and sharing more. It’s been setup by Harry Ford a designer at Fubra, surfer and fellow fan of Winston Churchill! I’ve been asked by Harry to contribute to sixcrayons and not [...]

In case you’re not familiar with the site Brand New its sole purpose is to chronicle and provide opinions on corporate and brand identity work, focusing mostly on identity design and a modest amount of packaging. Although its been awhile since I’ve done any brand identity work its nice to keep a hand in and [...]

Since setting up my little pet project @UXBooks I’ve been meaning to write a related blog post but haven’t managed to put aside the time until now. At a similar time to me setting it up UXBookClubs started to pop up around the World. If you haven’t heard about the idea before basically: A UX [...]