Design

A list of blog posts about design.

• Setting up a new mac for interaction design

  27 March 2023

  A round up of interaction design software that I'll install first on a new Macbook.

• The stickers on my laptop, 2023 edition

  17 March 2023

  Time to clean the stickers off my laptop (again).

• Lining up my first role

  27 February 2023

  Good news, it looks like I've lined up my first contract role.

• I’m going contracting

  2 February 2023

  Hey friends, I've decided to take the plunge and go contracting.

• Accessible PowerPoint presentations

  20 November 2022

  A collection of tips for making PowerPoint presentations more accessible.

• My interaction design tools, version 3

  27 July 2022

• My first 3 months in the inclusive design team

  8 October 2021

• Joining NHS test and trace

  24 July 2021

• A plan for accessible maps

  28 November 2020

• Weeknotes – series 04 episode 02

  1 November 2020

• A user-centred design and data community

  15 October 2020

• 11ty resources

  20 May 2020

• Accessible close buttons

  30 April 2020

  A short post about designing close buttons with SVG icons and accessible mark-up.

• Generally, it’s better to avoid opening links in new windows or tabs

  20 April 2020

• Making data part of the web sticker

  4 April 2020

• User research questions for data users

  9 December 2019

• Design workshops

  6 July 2019

• Writing user stories

  28 June 2019

• How to be a more resilient service designer

  23 February 2019

• Introduction to interaction design in gov

  15 November 2018

• How improving typography can help us to meet user needs

  13 November 2018

  What is typography? What problems does good typography solve? How do we know poor typography is a real problem?

• Interaction design tools

  11 November 2018

  The tools that I use every day. Interesting to note the lack of any design apps like Sketch.

• How to focus in open plan offices

  26 September 2018

  Earlier this week, I asked the Twitter hive mind for tips how to get focussed work done when working in open plan offices.

• What's the best way to mark-up an SVG map?

  3 June 2018

• Kicking things off with the graphic design team

  30 May 2018

  Make your work visible, zoom out, and create some great British public service design.

• Accessibility for designers

  19 December 2017

  A guide to web accessibility for graphic, visual and UI (user interface) designers.

• We’re hiring 5 graphic designers at Office for National Statistics (ONS)

  16 December 2017

  3 digital designers and 2 brand and print designers in Newport. Closing 22 Jan 2018.

• Creating a digital delivery culture

  21 October 2016

• Should designers design content?

  28 July 2016

• The first UK Government accessibility meet-up

  22 July 2016

• The New ABCs of Research by Ben Schneiderman

  21 June 2016

• Port80 2016

  20 May 2016

• The last ten percent

  17 April 2016

• Speaking at Design Swansea in April

  27 March 2016

• Great service design at Premier Inn

  26 March 2016

• Tools for recording usability tests

  22 January 2016

• When things get tedious

  12 November 2015

• Goodbye WordPress

  5 November 2015

• What’s the best way to learn UX?

  28 March 2015

• Finding work and managing money as a freelancer

  9 March 2015

• Reasons London

  22 February 2015

• Responsive HTML email talk at Winter LocalHost 2014

  25 November 2014

• Swansea design meet-up

  25 November 2014

• My BlogConf slides

  11 October 2014

• Making responsive HTML emails

  28 September 2014

• Notes on creating Twitter, Google+ and Facebook profile page images

  22 April 2014

• Responsive email design

  3 April 2014

• User experience design

  17 February 2014

• My name is Benjy and I’m a web designer

  4 February 2014

• Readable, guessable and hackable urls

  29 November 2013

• Web design tools

  26 November 2013

• Why I like to use “smart quotes”

  17 November 2013

• Stickiness and lumpy bits

  19 May 2013

• Crafting animation on the web

  14 May 2013

• Crafting animation on the web an introduction

  2 March 2013

• Animation as a design material

  31 January 2013

• Immersive animation on the web

  26 January 2013

• On knolling

  27 October 2012

• An excuse for a blockquote

  19 October 2012

• Design is an actual job

  7 October 2012

• Designing user experience in casinos

  18 October 2010

• BBC Newsnight talks graphic design and infographics

  10 August 2010