Dot York returned last Thursday 9th November with a new lease of life, new venue, and new sponsor. (Us!) The […]
Author Archives: Francois Jordaan
Integrating UX with agile development
Incorporating user centred design practices within Agile product development can be a major challenge. Most of us in the user […]
Rapid user research on an Agile project
Our timeline to build an in-browser vision mixer for BBC R&D (previously, previously) is extremely tight – just 2 months. […]
London’s new Design Museum
I have very little nostalgia for the old Design Museum building. Its location near Tower Bridge was always a real […]
Refreshing a site into uselessness
Myvue.com was never what I’d call wonderfully designed, but it it did its job. It did it so well, in […]
Going all-in on Flexbox
On a recent project we finally got to use Flexbox extensively for page layout. In the interests of increasing general […]
When a feature is invoked more often accidentally than on purpose, it should be considered a bug
Back in 2014 I tweeted this: I’ve been meaning to revisit that statement for a while now. The link above […]
Evolving The Key: insights from user research
Last week the freshly redesigned The Key for School Leaders and School Governors went live, after almost a year in […]
In-car interaction design
I recently went to a fascinating IxDA (interaction design) meetup about in-car interaction design. Here’s a quick summary: 1. Driver […]
Is Apple giving design a bad name?
Legendary user experience pioneers and ex-Apple employees Don Norman and Bruce ‘Tog’ Tognazzini recently aimed a broadside at Apple in […]