Archive of blog posts

Some advice I would give myself to try to be a better product manager.

A bit of early spring cleaning.

To coin a phrase, I wrote this for you.

I wanted to add a means to search the contents of the site in context but it had to be lean.

How I fixed an issue where the netlify build fails with exit code 1 and 2 on an Eleventy site which builds locally

What I think I think about when I think I’m thinking about learning.

I wrote something and it's been published on the seminal website, A List Apart.

How do you measure success? How do you know which metrics to track? And how do you decide what the benchmark is for defining success? Jason Fried has a very simple but very effective method.

Whereas the web has helped drive huge amounts of waste, it’s not all bad.

Dave Rupert tweeted about Blacklight today — a tool that reveals how much tracking takes place on websites.

I recorded a podcast for The Human Centric Design Network (https://www.thisishcd.com/) today

Gerry McGovern’s recent tweets and blog posts about digital waste and earth-centric design really resonated with me. I was very pleased to get the chance to proof-read some drafts of the book before publication and this is my review of the finished article.

Holly Tuke writes about the real irritations a blind person suffers when trying to use websites.

A great reminder and detailed breakdown on why HTML is usually my first choice web technology.

Who ever said that email trackers, that silently record where and when you open your emails, had to be the norm?

In product design, coding, or just in life, finding the right words to express what you mean is hard. But when you get it right it is a beautiful thing.

Getting through the Apple App Store review process feels like offering a sacrifice to the gods. Here’s a potential solution that allows Apple to make money without the cosa nostra business practices.

Using a CSS media query to enable styles that are better suited to Dark Mode.

Do you want to know what the vibrant purple squiggle in the header is all about?

Just one of those little details that you find on the web. It tickles you, you check it out, and find that there’s a whole universe that you didn’t even know existed!

This is the output from the recent sessions in which I participated with the WHO and experts from around the world. Published now as open-source to be used “to the benefit of humanity”.

Today, I took part in a session, led by Gerry McGovern, to help the World Health Organisation (WHO) identify and classify the most important information on their website about COVID-19.

An explanation of the privacy policy on this website. Spoiler alert—it’s very short.

Have a think about what you actually need to know about your users. It may be less than you think.

For those interested in how the site was put together and why it looks like it does. Here goes…

A look at how challenging conventions can uncover better ways to make information easier to find on websites, and play a part in saving resources.