In this post I document my experience recreating the Longreads article “Are The Teens All Right?” by Danielle Tcholakian in the Gutenberg editor. In fact I tried to recreate the entire web page, including the header and the footer. I approached this challenge with the assumed mindset of someone fairly new to Gutenberg and recorded…

Trends constantly come and go in visual design. Some explode on to the scene and see mass adoption only to fade into obscurity as quickly as they arrived – remember burning text gifs? Others are slow burners that eventually become mainstays once proven to provide a verifiable benefit. Inclusive design is probably the most important…

While pondering a topic for this post I habitually glance down at my wristwatch and decide that it might be a suitable inspiration. I rapidly mind-map a potential overlap between horology and software design / development but only find ethereal concepts – nothing concrete. What I do find is an overlap between how my taste…

Understanding users is of paramount importance, that is clear to any product designer. But sometimes creating an accurate persona to test against can be tricky. Sometimes it might even be impossible. In these situations it’s good to have some fundamental rules to fall back on. For me, one of those rules is to always focus…