Five years ago all we had to design screens with was pen and paper and a bunch of tools that weren’t really optimised for the job (e.g. Visio / Powerpoint etc).

Sketching with pen and paper is still crucially important …

Bills need to be paid, projects need to be managed, the world needs to keep turning and to make all that happen there needs to be rules and order.

I get it, we all get it.

In digital projects it …

I’m not a big fan of Lorem Ipsum.

At best it gives you an indication what your page looks like with random text, at worst pushes you to design to fit your boxes rather than thinking of the right content.…

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The other day I attended the UCL Computer Science Department External Advisory Board meeting and one of the agenda items was the “gender issue” in computer science.

Now it’s no news to me that women are generally under represented in …

When creating a mobile prototypes and viewing them online on my iPhone I’ve found an annoying issue.

The onTap shadow

Whenever you tap on an item, after a fractional delay a shadow appears over the element and then the on …