Product designer, people-first manager, and design leader with over 20 years’ experience creating impact with business leaders by designing award-winning products and empowering high-output teams.

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‘The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You’ is a book I keep coming back to time and time again as a design manager.

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The lessons from Boeing’s crisis serve as a reminder of the critical importance of effective leadership and management in any organisation.

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Drive your design process forward by generating insights and group ideas while creating meaningful connections and fostering collaboration.

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Enlisted by Henry Ford II in 1966 to modernise the Ford logo, Paul Rand's rebranding proposal has resurfaced, sparking debates about its potential iconic status.

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What are the three different modes of thinking that people often encounter at work and how do they differ?

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In the midst of debates fuelled by Elon Musk’s views on Twitter’s free speech rules, important questions have been raised about online expression.

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Stakeholder interviews play a vital role in UX research providing valuable insights into the requirements and expectations of stakeholders.

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The uncanny valley is the point at which a robot's human likeness becomes eerily unsettling rather than endearing.

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While the idea of AI replacing real people in user research and product testing may seem like a futuristic one, it’s not entirely far-fetched.

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Having used ChatGPT mainly for editing, grammar and offering alternative sentence structures I put its creative writing chops to the test.

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Everywhere you look these days, there's another lazy AI-generated article and many are easily recognisable by one common trait.

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Isn’t it ironic that the very thing we believed would perpetually distinguish humans from advanced technological intelligence was the very first to disappear?

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"There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for." - Milton Glaser

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Amateur photographers shoot for fun, enthusiasts are skilled but unpaid, and professionals turn their passion into a paid business.

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The deeper the understanding a designer has about how things function on the web, the better their design solutions will be.

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Ready or not, the status quo is changing, and artificial intelligence is going to revolutionise your work. So, you'd best be prepared.

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A new band of pirates who don't sail the seas of Silicon Valley are ushering in a new era of the Internet and driving the movement of Web3.

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Figma gave me renewed hope at a time when Photoshop was way past its sell by date and when the new kid on the block made me nauseous.

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In 2017 I ditched the rental market after 17 years and began planning the renovation of an 1800s Irish farmhouse to realise a mortgage-free dream.

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My journey restoring a vintage tractor and learning diesel mechanics from scratch.

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Once upon a time, on a day in 2014, I began writing a novel, although I didn’t know it at the time.

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