My experience of preparing and presenting a design challenge for a Junior UX/UI Designer role — I recently completed a design challenge for a Junior UX/UI Designer role at a London-based global media company. The challenge asked me to conceptualise what a unified and consistent in-app messaging strategy might look like across all of their (very diverse) products, thinking in particular about new feature alerts and…

Like many UX designers, I am a career pivoter. After leaving my role as a psychologist and completing a 6-month UX bootcamp with Flatiron School, I knew landing a job was likely to entail a few months of hard slog until I found a company willing to take the risk…

WFH: WTF? — The internet is awash with guidance on how to stay sane whilst working from home in the midst of a global pandemic. All written with the best of intentions, of course, and much of it very valuable. …

How becoming a UX designer changed the way I view the world — It was a pretty unremarkable event. I was driving up to visit my parents for the weekend (when lockdown restrictions allowed) and we pulled into a service station for a coffee and to let Arlo out of the car for a few minutes (Arlo is a rescue dog prone to…