Anchoring is a form of cognitive bias where we as users tend to place increased emphasis on the first choice we are given when forming a decision. Anchoring and Adjustment explains how we tend to take the information provided by the anchor, and use that as the benchmark for any... View Article
I got bored about half way through this article (probably about the time it actually started talking about how to design visually for voice), but in the first quarter there are some really nice stats on voice usage. However, I take umbrage with the following image in the article. The above... View Article
Just been reading an article on Why touchscreens in cars don’t work (good article, give it a read) when I came upon a theory regarding the amount of cognitive load required to utilise Voice as an interaction method and why it’s not necessarily the preferred method for interaction for a user. Well,... View Article
Compared to the static nature of print, the web is an ever evolving beast where a rectangle can be a circle and designed dimensions can be meaningless or rigid and unbreakable. As such here are a couple of simple traps that offline designers can often fall into. These rules are... View Article
Some concepts I’ve learnt that I need to try and remember about using the Photos framework for iOS. Thought I’d jot them whilst the were fresh from moving some legacy code this weekend from the ALAssetsLibrary to using the Photos framework which was introduced a good few years ago. A... View Article
Spent an hour boggling my brain on this, so it’s one to write down. If you are namespacing your javascript functions using the module pattern you may run into an instance where you try to return an async value (i.e. from a json resource) and the value obviously returns immediately. So... View Article
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