Break things to change things
When a natural disaster destroys a city, we don't rebuild a carbon-copy. We rebuild the things we need, and there's space for new things to fill the gaps.
Information you can use is better than data that you don't
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Individual praise is a team opportunity
Give deep praise, and give it context. Praise is more impactful when people can also understand why the subject of the praise is important.
Productized Podcast appearance
Chatting with André from the Productized Podcast about moving from UX to Product Management, and building AI products.
Sketch symbol best practices (now that nested overrides are a thing)
Best practices for designing high quality reusable symbols in Sketch.
Adding icons to links
Using css :before and :after to decorate links with icons.
Using Sketch Symbols to create Material quick-guides
I often find myself creating quick-boxes to snap align stuff to, especially when designing for Material. Here I explain the idea behind using Symbols to create faster guides in your Sketch documents.
My Sketch shortcuts
Turbo-charge Sketch by adding custom shortcuts.
Everyone should take a gap year
It’s August 13th, and across the UK thousands of A-Level students are finding out whether they did well enough in their exams to be accepted into university. Maybe not getting into university is a blessing in disguise.
Rethinking recipes
Recipes can be tricky to decipher, especially when you're inexperienced, in the middle of cooking and under pressure. Here, we analyse some existing recipe formats and ideate some improvements.