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I know “What’s Next”

In October 2015, I handed in my resignation at Apple. I was heartbroken about leaving a job that I loved. But I knew I wanted to move back to New Zealand. I wrote about my state of mind at the time,...

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The process of design

Since I’ve been back from abroad, I’ve written a lot about how designer and developer teams can work together more effectively. I’ve elaborated that it’s more than just making a pattern library. Now,...

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Echo-affordances

“Simplicity” and “authentically digital” seem to go hand in hand for many people. Something that is authentically digital is not encumbered with artifacts from reality. Drop shadows, gradients or...

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Hiring is expensive

When I returned to New Zealand, one of my biggest questions was “What’s next?” A big part of it was looking for a job that I’d love. The traditional approach to job hunting is to use recruiters....

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Building a design team

I’m the Director of User Experience at Vend. That means I’m in charge of the design team and delivering a great experience for retailers when they use our product. I can’t do this alone, of course, I’m...

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Don’t use MailChimp for weddings; they don’t want you to anyway.

The tl;dr: MailChimp only want commercial mail to be sent using their service—or at least will enforce laws that apply to commercial email, on all email you send using their service. This means...

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Vote like a Christian

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On Earth, as it is in heaven.As Christians, our mission is to be the hands and feet of God’s will. His will, as declared by His Son, Jesus Christ, is for the kingdom...

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Speak the same language

When I wrote about the process of designing in parallel, I wrote a phrase that I instantly identified as being an iceberg phrase1:They’re just names at this point. On a sheet of paper.The iceberg below...

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Why a meal planner?

In 2017 my wife and I did Plastic Free July and later we wrote “Zero Waste” to help people try to live Zero Waste in Auckland, NZ.We quickly determined that going Zero Waste meant that it was almost...

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Building a SwiftUI App in a Month

Last week I wrote about why I decided to build a Meal Planner app.This week I wanted to share a few thoughts about how I went about building a SwiftUI app in a month. This isn’t going to be a technical...

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