In the background recently I’ve been working on something, well a few things, but this is the thing I’m talking about right now. Yes, I am now officially an iOS developer proper. Imposter syndrome can do one. Community Assist is an app designed to help someone who may require assistance... View Article
A friend just asked me the above question and when I looked back at the overlong, rambling, answer to why web dev for a nav increasingly gets more complex I thought “this is perfect blog post material”, so here it is. Enjoy my overlong, rambling, answer. Nav’s are the most... View Article
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’ve spent the past week in my downtime exploring Siri Shortcuts in my Stereo Remote app. My Stereo Remote app is an iOS app for controlling my AV receiver. I use this because the hardware remote is god awful, and the software remotes are god awful. It’s a good app,... 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
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