This was originally posted on my own site. I’d like to play it cool when I announce the latest speakers for UX London 2023, like I could be all nonchalant and say, “oh yeah, did I not mention these people are also speaking…?” But I wouldn’t be able to keep…

This was originally posted on my own site. Picture someone tediously going through a spreadsheet that someone has filled in by hand and finding yet another error. “I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!” they cry. The year was 1821 and technically the spreadsheet was a…

This was originally posted on my own site. You know how when you’re on hold to any customer service line you hear a message that thanks you for calling and claims your call is important to them. The message always includes a disclaimer about calls possibly being recorded “for training…

This was originally posted on my own site. I know I’m being tease, doling out these UX London speaker announcements in batches rather than one big reveal. Indulge me in my suspense-ratcheting behaviour. Today I’d like to unveil three speakers whose surnames start with the letter H… Stephen Hay, Creative…

This was originally posted on my own site. The last talk at the last dConstruct was by local clever clogs Anil Seth. It was called Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality. It’s well worth a listen. Anil covers a lot of the same ground in his excellent book, Being You…

This was originally posted on my own site. I tried watching a classic Western this weekend, How The West Was Won. I did not make it far. Let’s just say that in the first few minutes, the Spencer Tracy voiceover that accompanies the sweeping vistas sets out an attitude toward…

This was originally posted on my own site. We use metaphors all the time. To quote George Lakoff, we live by them. We use analogies some of the time. They’re particularly useful when we’re wrapping our heads around something new. By comparing something novel to something familiar, we can make a shortcut to comprehension, or at least, categorisation. But we need a certain amount of vigilance when it comes to analogies. Just because something is like something else doesn’t mean it’s the same.

This was originally posted on my own site. I am positively giddy with excitement to tell you about some more speakers you can look forward to at UX London 2023: Stacey Mendez, Product and Experience Designer, Hannah Smith, Director of Operations at the Green Web Foundation, Vitaly Friedman, Creative Lead…

This was originally posted on my own site. I documented a weird bug with web audio on iOS a while back: On some pages of The Session, as well as the audio player for tunes (using the Web Audio API) there are also embedded YouTube videos (using the video element)…