Help your team leave
As an agency leader, founder, manager or anyone who hires: employee loyalty is your ideal. Say it with me: no one on your team will be there forever. If you want high-performing teams who share your…
Digests: Covid & Commencements
It’s never a dull moment round here. Having had a month between jobs to lay low, I was itching to get back into the swing of things. The month rolled by rather uneventfully, barring some domestic and a…
Leaving Clearleft (again)
9 years. Or 3,287 days. Or 78,894 hours. Almost a decade spent with one company in Brighton. I went from a fresh, wide-eyed and hungry, ambitious designer to a board member and design leader. I’ve m…
Ruinous Empathy
By all accounts the Kim Scott book ‘Radical Cando(u)r’ has become a bible in Silicon Valley and tech circles. And rightly so, as the need for honest and open feedback cannot be underestimated. For tho…
Mentoring, and Imposter syndrome
Imposter Syndrome. That feeling when you doubt yourself, asking whether you’re deserving of your accomplishments. You can't help but feel it's only a matter of time until you’re exposed as a fraud. I suf…
Office Hours
I really like talking to people. Introvert or not, I’m curious by nature and enjoy understanding what people are up to, what they do, and how they do it. So at the tail end of the tumultuous year t…
Introspection as an initiative
I find it second nature to question myself. Often I’ll reflect and analyse in an endless loop, eventually introducing doubt into my own decisions. If you’ve ever watched The Good Place, I often joke to …
Speaking to a screen: Mobile UX London
When I spoke at the recent MUX London’s ‘Festival of UX & Design’ in September, I knew things would be different thanks to Covid-19. I just don’t think I realised how awkward it would be to hear your own voi…