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How to grow as a designer

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Looking at job ads, your value is usually judged by number of years on the job + tools you know and have experience with, but really… it should not be.

collage with UX Glasgow logo, photo of piles of book, sharpies, people chatting during a meet up, screenshot of a confirmation of order on Eventbrite, my journey professional journey as a tubemap  and a certificate from the Interaction Design Foundation
My own journey, meet-ups, various events, books and online courses – photo from UX Glasgow meet-up session pre-covid
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Assess a service

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I’m building a little tool with the GOV.UK prototype kit and assessment frameworks shared publicly. It’s under construction. [edit Feb 2025: I’ve now stopped hosting that website, you can still see the code but won’t be able to access the website.]

4 mini screens to illustrate the flow
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Is my website accessible?

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Well, if you are asking, it probably isn’t. Accessibility is usually not that hard to achieve but you must have this in mind while creating your website, not as an after thought.

This post is for people who are new to digital accessibility and want to learn how to improve it.

screenshot of the website Lingscars.com . There is text, drawings pictures everywhere, very flashy colours, different fonts, everything is competing for your attention
Example of a terrible website. You can see LingsCars.com for yourself warning: flashing colours, sounds, animations and more …
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Improving digital skills – a tool using the GOV.UK prototype kit – part 2

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The idea: developing a website where people can fill in forms which look like the real ones but simplified to learn and become more confident. This is Jumana Almusawi‘s idea: she contacted me about it back in February on LinkedIn.

A lot has happen since my last blog post about this. Work is nearly completed and we tested with learners on Zoom recently.

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