News, views, and real-life lessons in UX design.

12 October 2026

"Can you make it pop?"

This feedback is coming from a genuine place, but we’d all be lying if it didn’t cause a little eye-roll moment for us designers who applied careful, formulaic thinking to every element of the work.

7 October 2026

Trying to convince stakeholders to buy into a UX solution

Trying to convince stakeholders to buy into a UX solution? Baymard’s Institute published insights into exactly what works.

5 October 2026

Does your dashboard actually help someone make decisions?

Does your dashboard actually help someone make decisions or does it just make data look pretty? Meriem Benhabiles wrote an interesting piece for Smashing Magazine rethinking data visualisation around the questions users need answered.

1 October 2026

Research is Hiding in Plain Sight

Whether you do research before launching into design depends on what you already know about what you’re building, but...

25 September 2026

Saving Time with Figma Make: A Study

A new study involving 50 product designers and 50 product managers explored how access to Figma Make affected three standardised design tasks.

21 September 2026

London Design Festival 2026

As technology changes what we can create, how do we decide what’s worth creating? Last week was London Design Festival 2026. Here are my highlights.

18 September 2026

ChatGPT integrates sponsored ads

When a product introduces advertising, the biggest UX question is where and how we can make it feel helpful and unintrusive. What happens when an advert stops being a link and starts talking back?

14 September 2026

Apple's Liquid Glass response

I think we can agree that when Apple introduced Liquid Glass with iOS 26 last year, the response was fairly brutal. Here’s how Apple dealt with it.

10 September 2026

Apple's Surprise and Shine event

We all knew the new iPhone would have a folding screen. Here’s what people were most curious about and what Apple delivered tonight in the Surprise and Shine event.

5 September 2026

London AI Startup Conference

An exclusive conference of 100 shortlisted AI startup founders, venture capital investors, and tech leaders, selected from 900+ applications, just examined the market for early-stage AI companies.

26 August 2026

Stripe’s president thinks the checkout page will eventually disappear

Stripe’s president thinks the checkout page will eventually disappear. Here’s why it’s not that simple, from a UX design perspective.

24 August 2026

Wise adapted design system

Wise recently considered duplicating its design system for a second brand. Here’s the lesson in what went wrong.