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Jul 27, 2020

Wanted: My photo library on a connected TV

One of the biggest missing pieces in personal photo management: the screensaver / slideshow — TL;DR I want my photos on my TV. I want an interface optimised for a TV remote. Here’s a demo The longer version One of the biggest problems with our large digital photo collections is that too much of it sits around without ever being looked at again. And if we do, it’s often…

Photos

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Wanted: My photo library on a connected TV
Wanted: My photo library on a connected TV

Nov 18, 2018

On procrastination and despair

Last week I tweeted this: Until a design is good, it is shit. After decades as a designer, I still struggle psychologically with this. I’ve been a designer all my professional life, and throughout that time I would often hit a phase of despair, where I feel like a fraud…

Life Lessons

6 min read


Jun 25, 2018

A church of reading

I want to belong to a “church” where, from 10–12 every Sunday, I sit in silence in a congregation of others who are here, like me, to read a book without distraction. We bring our books with us, whatever we want to read — perhaps something difficult, that needs the…

Reading

3 min read


Dec 5, 2016

London’s new Design Museum

I have very little nostalgia for the old Design Museum building. Its location near Tower Bridge was always a real effort to get to, and while an attractive modernist icon, it always felt small, very much one of London’s “minor” museums — not befitting London’s reputation as a global design…

Museums

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London’s new Design Museum
London’s new Design Museum

Jul 7, 2016

When a feature is invoked more often accidentally than on purpose, it should be considered a bug

Back in 2014 I tweeted this: UX axiom: when a feature is invoked more often accidentally than on purpose, it should be considered a bug I’ve been meaning to revisit that statement for a while now. …

UX

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When a feature is invoked more often accidentally than on purpose, it should be considered a bug
When a feature is invoked more often accidentally than on purpose, it should be considered a bug

Jul 7, 2016

In-car interaction design

I recently went to a fascinating IxDA (interaction design) meetup about in-car interaction design. Here’s a quick summary: 1. Driver distraction and multitasking Duncan Brumby teaches and researches in-car UX at UCL. …

Cars

3 min read

In-car interaction design
In-car interaction design

Published in Prototypr

·Jul 7, 2016

Is Apple giving design a bad name?

Legendary user experience pioneers and ex-Apple employees Don Norman and Bruce ‘Tog’ Tognazzini recently aimed a broadside at Apple in an article titled “How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name”, linkbait calibrated to get the design community in a froth. On the whole I think they are right. Apple’s…

UX

5 min read


Jul 7, 2016

Thinking about wireframes

Recently Des Traynor provoked a lot of conversation by saying Some things can’t be wireframed. Many people reacted defensively. I suspect most of us in UX roles still spend a significant amount of our time wireframing. Couple of things are worth bearing in mind: Des works in-house at a product…

UX

3 min read


Jul 7, 2016

Hold the hamburger

I’ve noticed a worrying trend in web navigation lately. More and more websites are hiding their navigation — at desktop resolutions — under a single button, often the 3-bar “hamburger” icon. They are doing this because it makes the website look “clean” — simple and uncluttered. Who wouldn’t want that…

UX

4 min read

Hold the hamburger
Hold the hamburger

Published in Frontend Weekly

·Jul 7, 2016

Polite user interfaces know when to wait a little

Web page elements that appear or disappear on hover should almost always do so with a slight delay. Why? To prevent distracting elements leaping out at you while your mouse is simply traversing the page. To prevent you from accidentally clicking something that popped into view just as you were…

Java Script

2 min read

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Francois Jordaan

User Experience Director at isotoma.com

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