Textile 2024 week 19 note Accessibility seems to be trending. This is new in a way that is almost disturbing for a number of reasons, the first of which is why has it taken so long, and the second being what caused this. I think it might have to do
Textile 2024 week 17 note I might be doing some more speaking at another developer conference or two quite soon. This is a good, but slightly uncomfortable spot to be in when you’re a designer. You’re typically talking a different language to what is hopefully a crowd of
Textile 2024 week 16 note We’re in the midst of designing and prototyping a number of sites, showing what we’re working on at Textile, which I’ve been writing about or around in the past couple of weeks or so. At first we talked about just putting a
Textile 2024 week 15 note This past week has been a lot of making web prototypes, namely in Framer, a tool that allows designer to design and publish web sites without coding. I learned how to make websites a long time ago, longer than most could imagine or want to
Textile 2024 week 14 note Colour can count for a lot. Recently with Tableland Studio we’ve been piloting a dark mode colour scheme. This is a bigger deal than you probably think and the history of dark mode is an interesting one. We’ve been working with the idea
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Textile 2024 week 12 note Part of being a design at Textile means doing a bit of everything. This means not just the user experience, but also visual design. This is great for me as a user experience designer, because my first degree is actually in graphic design, and that
Textile 2024 week 11 note Users. Participants. People. The fact is that you always have to be thinking about them when you’re designing and building software. How to understand what potential users might be thinking is key to building software. Everyone knows this. There’s many ways into people’
Textile 2024 week 10 note As designers generally work on things that don’t yet exist, how design fits into a company often times depends on the product strategy. There are many ways to discover and adapt product strategy and one of these is the often unjustly maligned market research
Textile 2024 week 09 note Product design strategy is a funny thing. You can start in a lot of different places. You can start at the beginning, looking at where you’re at and then where you want to go. Or you can do it the other way around, where
Textile 2024 week 07 note There are many ways to work, and even more ways to build software. Some times this is done with people all in the same place, and sometimes, like it is for Textile, it’s with people physically nowhere near each other. This situation means that
Textile 2024 week 06 Part of the process I try to work with as much as possible with organisations is consensus building. A lot of times this means workshops which all too often translates to post-its on walls, whether virtual or otherwise. At this moment in time, while slightly cliched,