Reading Time: 7 minutes In this post, I share the highlights from the sessions I attended. In part 1, I shared separately my experience as a speaker and reflections about online versus in person conferences. This year, I choose to go to some workshops which are longer sessions, so I attended less sessions in… Read More »UX Scotland 2023 – part 2: Highlights
Reading Time: 8 minutes In this post, I share about my experience as a speaker and reflections about online versus in person conferences. In part 2, I share separately highlights from the sessions I attended. In person versus online conference Before lockdown, I attended a few conferences including UX Scotland in 2019, but since… Read More »UX Scotland 2023 – part 1: Experience of it
As a designer, we have more power than we think but don’t always realise it. In this post, I’ve grouped resources to help you take power into account in your design work.
Read More »Resources to understand power in designWhile working on the ‘Practitioner stories‘, we found that storytelling and facilitation were considered the most important skills a service design practitioner should have. I’ve gathered some resources about facilitation in this post.
Read More »Resources about facilitationReading Time: 3 minutes I’m in this nice phase where I’ve left a role and haven’t started the next one yet. My old laptop is packed, waiting to be picked up by a courier and the new one will arrive this week. At this point in time, I don’t have to worry about the… Read More »In between
Reading Time: 4 minutes My weekend started Friday and we were changing the clocks. With the Twitter takeover, I started wondering if I should leave that space and this prompted a bigger reflexion about how I want to use my time and get informed. Social media, and even Internet were not a thing for… Read More »Changing the clock, getting some time back
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ingredients: In a bowl, mix 280g of flour, with 50g of sugar, and the salt. In a cup, mix 60g melted butter with the milk and 60ml of water, the mix should be lukewarm when you add the yeast and leave for 5min. Mix with the rest, then add the… Read More »Brioche (recipe)
Reading Time: 11 minutes Accessibility is progressing but not as fast as it should. Using my own learning journey, I’ll tell you about 7 misconceptions which might prevent you from improving the accessibility of your design. This blog post is a summary of a talk I delivered at the UCD Gathering Conference. The recording… Read More »Avoiding misconceptions on your accessibility learning journey
Reading Time: 6 minutes As Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is coming up on May 19th, it’s a good reminder that we should always keep accessibility in mind. I’m a service designer working on government projects so I need to comply with the service standard my projects fall under: the GOV.UK one or the Scottish Government one called Digital… Read More »Keeping accessibility in mind
Reading Time: 6 minutes I’ve been writing about ‘removing barriers’ a lot in the past year: barriers for disabled people, barriers into design careers and more. Before trying to remove a barrier, first, we need to identify and understand it. Edit 24/02/2024: I presented a talk about this for the Scottish Tech Army, a… Read More »Removing barriers to inclusion