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UX Director @ dotcentric. Trying to capture a biography in one sentence is perhaps an over simplification of an entire life.

London, England
Joined November 2010
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Good honest article. My first impression was this feature is for everyone other than designers. Have you ever met a designer who can’t put something down on a blank page?!
Design deserves better than Figma AI. Figma was the latest company to mishandle AI and design — foreshadowing the loss of a vast array of design jobs. We should demand better from our tools and industry. sdw.space/figma-ai-and-lost-…
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Feel lucky to be doing the middle bit still! Can’t go back to making things pretty!
When I started design people would just open up Photoshop and start making things look nice. We then discovered UX and started making site maps, personas, wireframes and prototypes. Now people open up Figma and make it look nice.
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I wrote an article about the Kano model and UX strategy.
Interested in delighting customers, driving loyalty, and outperforming your competitors? Read our latest article on how to use the Kano model to guide UX strategy. 👇 #ux #strategy tinyurl.com/4jdhjr2f
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UX: We've discovered several friction points for our users in our flagship service Biz: We can't prioritize this, we need to ship more features & services 1 year later... UX: We're seeing a lot of users leaving our service largely b/c competitor products are easier to use 🤦‍♂️
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Why aren’t we focusing AI on chores like laundry and dishes? Or mundane and redundant tasks? Why are we having it focus on creating art & writing novels? This is what humans would prefer to do if they didn’t have to work.
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Good copy focuses on the benefit. Great copy focuses on the benefit and the cost of indecision. To motivate a prospect, you need to paint the picture of the transformation and show them the cost of not solving the problem.
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Typical Elon Musk. Everything is coming soon but no date :)
Learning about @OpenAI 's knowledge of UX through ChatGPT – not too bad for a machine, although it doesn't understand nuance. Yep, it's scary but AI is already in our hands – if we want to have a chance of steering it's course we need to get involved now! openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
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I'm not sure @OpenAI's ChatGPT is being entirely accurate? CC @jmspool
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One major sin of social media is to pick things that seem logical but don’t hold up to scrutiny. This tweet is a classic example The direction of travel is easy to infer. The signs are two sided. People don’t enter travelators backwards. The intended audience won’t scrutinise.
One major sin of persuasion is to approach things from your perspective rather than the audience’s This sign is a classic example The only people who can see the sign are those already facing forward The intended audience are facing the wrong direction so won’t see it
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This week our edit of #design and #tech news looks at CMS growth, reinventing the web browser, and Black Friday marketing trends. tinyurl.com/429ycu6s #marketing #growth #blackfriday2022 #ecommerce #browser #cms #twitter #diversity #engineering
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Hear from our @umbraco Community MVP Ravi Motha on his review of Umbraco Together 2022. tinyurl.com/mpeumhhj #community #opensource #cms #goldpartner #umbraco
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Why blockchain tech is searching for tomorrow’s problem to justify an investment today. stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-b… @jmspool
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Learn more about designing and publishing content for users with accessibility needs including autism, blindness, low vision, D/deaf or hard of hearing, mobility and dyslexia. tinyurl.com/ybb6mv4w #accessibility #inclusivedesign #wcag @GDSTeam
Conservatives marketing team: We need a Netflix style film poster for this please. Designer: Of course, that makes total sense.
⏰ Tune in to watch Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt deliver the Autumn Statement tomorrow at 11:30am.
Love this quote, I just won’t quote it :)
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Very cool to show students how borders have changed over time… @TMHistoryIcons
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Replying to @stevesalihu
Are we really discussing if you should box the inputs or not? And we wonder why business folk don't take designers seriously! Also depends on the user base. Are they young, old, tech savvy, not tech savvy etc. Test with real users rather than asking other designers.
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