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The end of navel gazing

Earlier this year I gave a talk at UX London, and it’s no exaggeration to say that it felt like it had taken me my whole career to write...

What we learned building our bot

When a new technology emerges, there’s an initial trigger. The masses react and become disillusioned, and then the trend slowly builds...

Invisible design: why less is more

The hardest-working designers – and some of their best design decisions – are the ones you don’t even notice. Have you ever been charged...

Unflattening design

Apologies if you clicked on this post expecting a proposal for the next visual design trend to replace flat design. We won’t be having a...

The other side

Empathy – understanding another person’s condition – is a foundation of research in product development teams. But ironically, in...

Product design starts with a fingerprint

In the past 10 years, I’ve sat in countless meetings in multiple countries where Product Managers at technology companies talked with...

It’s not the end of apps

No one was saying that apps are dying. A few weeks ago we published an article entitled “The End of Apps As We Know Them“. The article...

The end of apps as we know them

The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes...

Harnessing user research with Intercom

It’s a given developers know their products better than their users but this can lead to a gulf in understanding between them. Listening...

Why I left Google to join Intercom

After a 7.5 year international adventure with Google, I’ve joined Intercom as Director of Research. So, what lured me away from the...

On magical software…

Software is most impressive when it gives you things for free. When just a simple few taps or clicks delivers instant value you’re in...

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