13 July 2026
Blue-sky thinking — starting from an unconstrained, root-cause view of the problem — is the step most UX process skips. Here's how to use it, with a real health-app example and a way to run it yourself.
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9 July 2026
Most multi-brand design system advice quietly stops working around brand five or six. Here's the token architecture, component pattern, and governance structure that holds up at 8+ brands.
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5 May 2025
Don't skip learning & using this crucial skill as part of the Design Thinking process...
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16 April 2025
This short read will inform you of designer/artist traps and how to recognise and avoid them
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11 March 2025
You want to do User Research, to include a survey: How do you encourage responses without paying a fortune to a user research company, and avoid paying for each participant?
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9 January 2025
Sometimes clients, or people who think they know about UX will claim that less clicks = good UX, but this is an oversimplification and an assumption that just doesn't stand the test of logic.
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9 January 2025
If you hear anyone saying 'Pixel Perfect' you can be sure they don't know much about digital design at all... here's why
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30 May 2024
How to create exciting and engaging designs with assets (Images, animations etc)
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14 March 2024
Digital product design plays a crucial role in shaping the way people interact with technology
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14 February 2024
The mystery of how to choose colours in digital design is unravelled here by the use of some basic principles, tools & tricks
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29 January 2024
As a product, UX or web designer, it's important for you to know this tricky concept
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22 January 2024
A user story is a simple statement that can be used at various points in the design thinking process
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1 September 2023
Save time and grab this pre-built mobile nav-bar component. Build using the new figma variants - you can replace text, icons and colours as you need to, and the file includes detailed instructions so you can learn to do this yourself easily.
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