Internally at work I’ve been discussing the opportunity to create a pattern library (or style guide dependent on your preferred nomenclature) for one of our larger clients. This client effectively white-labels a bunch of financial services under their brand name and when the user takes the plunge on a service... View Article
This post details a recent app build project I was working on. This app was interesting because it also had a Raspberry Pi powered hardware component supplying it with data. The App, Our House, is an IoT home monitoring app. Now, I know what you are thinking. This has kind... View Article
Been watching a few WWDC sessions. Some lovely SceneKit Tips in the SceneKit in Swift Playgrounds video for reducing draw calls and improving FPS performance which is handy for a noob like me. Managed to jot this one down. Just a reminder to myself really. Draw calls Draw calls are... View Article
Surveying users quickly when I want to know the answer to a small user interaction question is apparently becoming my new habit when I’m bored. This time I had a bug I wanted to investigate. The bug was only triggered if a user tabbed into a field. I know I tend... View Article
The above video is a 45 minute plus introduction to email marketing. This was screen recorded along with the live audio of a presentation I gave at the company I work at. This video was for these “Library Sessions” that we run. These are supposed to be 10 minute micro-teaches... View Article
Following on from my recent post on performing UX research quickly is another example of performing this methodology to unearth a finding that I couldn’t prove. This time I turn my attention to social media share buttons. This is a topic that has already been well trodden, and they have proved... View Article
With the release of the iPhone X comes the perpetual stress of having to work out what the ratio of visible window vs browser chrome that Safari displays on first landing & load of a web site. This is compounded by the iPhone X being the first “all screen” device... View Article
I can’t remember when it was. It was at some point. I know it had to be some point in time. Dates aren’t important. Maybe was like a year ago? Two? Go with that. Two years ago* I had an idea and an epiphany. Had I had this idea for... View Article
Often, it can seem like the process to validate a hypothesis within your UX research can take a while. The back and forth of a project management system, discussion with client, sign off, research implementation, produce results. However, if we work quickly and take advantage of available resources within our... View Article
I recently spent a good few nights struggling with an issue in a SceneKit app I’m toying around with. The scene was rather simple. I created a set of planes programmatically , positioned one after the other creating a 10×10 grid and a gravity field to suck them up like... View Article