If you really are ‘user first’ then you must be ‘surveillance last’
Submitting your users or customers to surveillance means you aren’t building your product or service around them as you might claim. Continue Reading
Interweb
How much longer can your brand stay on Facebook?
What if your customers start to associate your brand with disinformation, hate speech and some of Facebooks controversial behaviors? Continue Reading
Why Amazon, Alexa and #TechForGood can’t be in the same sentence
It’s so disappointing to see digital professionals in charities promoting spyware infrastructure from a company that thinks nothing of exploiting the vulnerable, the principles the sector were built on have been abandoned. Continue Reading
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mr Zuckerberg – I wanted to write to you about my recent decision to delete my Facebook account. Continue Reading
Useful books for digital professionals
Over time I’ve managed to build up a number of books on work-related subjects some of these, others might find interesting. Continue Reading
I’m 60 years old and want to be a web developer
Would a soon to be pensioner be able to start a career as a web developer so late in life and would they be taken seriously by their peers and clients? Continue Reading
Lean and Agile UX course
Yesterday I attended this course from Nielsen Norman as part of Usability Week 2017 and the final course in my quest to gain their UX Certification. Continue Reading
Robots can’t make a decent coffee let alone take my job
Robots are coming one day to take make us redundant and lonely said a Professor. Once. Somewhere. Any detail is a little vague but it’s all inevitable. Skynet will become self aware. Continue Reading
Can this Weblinks manager open badge finally crush CLICK HERE?
I’m hoping this open badge I’ve created will encourage people to give these awful generic link names the boot. Continue Reading
Usability Testing course – part of Usability Week London 2015
I was lucky enough to attend a training course on usability testing from Nielsen Norman which was part of London Usability Week. Continue Reading