Latest in: concept development
July 21, 2025
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4 min read

Performance Anxiety

Design's silent killer (of ideas).
April 28, 2025
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5 min read

Designing By Feel

Despite all the structure and process that can go along with design, sometimes it's ok to go on feels alone.
April 14, 2025
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9 min read

AI for Designers – What’s Now and What’s Next?

Post-hype, what is AI doing for and to designers?
March 24, 2025
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5 min read

A Criticism-powered Jetpack

How learning to parse criticism improves the design and designer
December 9, 2024
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5 min read

How Much Design Gets Lost In Realisation?

How do the tools we use change our designs as they exit our heads?
November 25, 2024
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5 min read

The Fragility of Ideas

How to deal with the fickleness of our human creativity.
October 21, 2024
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5 min read

Show Your Working

How can a single concept deliver as much value as 50 concepts?
October 7, 2024
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5 min read

Learning Design Skills

The skills we want to learn as designers are usually not the ones we need.
September 30, 2024
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5 min read

The Aesthetic Bandwagon

If you're copying what's cool now, it's already too late.
August 5, 2024
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5 min read

Ideation and Being Human

What has boredom and failure ever done for us?
July 8, 2024
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5 min read

Have You Got A Hangover?

#noregrats
June 10, 2024
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3 min read

Closure

When you look at something long enough, you stop seeing the gaps.
June 3, 2024
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6 min read

Validation, Practically Speaking

So what does validation look like on a practical level?
May 27, 2024
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5 min read

Validate, Validate, Validate

Validate even before you have anything to validate.
May 6, 2024
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5 min read

You Can’t Just Phone In Your Mechanicals

An OTA won't make your design problems go away.
April 22, 2024
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5 min read

When Does A Designer Become A Reverse-Centaur?

Do we control the tools we use as designers? Or do they control us?
April 8, 2024
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5 min read

What is Frontend Design?

Frontend Design is the design work that takes you from having a problem, to knowing how to solve it.
January 15, 2024
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6 min read

Design is Chaos

It can be utterly disheartening when the development process doesn't fit within the confines of those well-illustrated tetragons.
December 18, 2023
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5 min read

Charades

Trying to diagnose a computer problem through a telephone with an inexperienced "technician" on the other end is exactly like playing charades.
December 4, 2023
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5 min read

Don’t Be Weird

Don't replace one set of problems, with another set of problems.
November 12, 2023
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6 min read

So You Have A Proof Of Concept? – Pt 2

Part two of taking your proof of concept and levelling it up. Creating your design and prototyping.
November 6, 2023
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6 min read

So You Have A Proof Of Concept? Now What?

So you have a proof of concept, but what do you do next? In two parts, I'll go over the process of levelling up your prototype. Design inputs and ideation.
October 23, 2023
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6 min read

Too Busy for Bad Design.

Most people are too busy to realise the products they use everyday are just a little bit off.
September 4, 2023
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6 min read

Does Design Lie to You?

This one goes deep, you may want to buckle up.
August 28, 2023
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5 min read

Kill Your Darlings

Take that clever little bit of wit, that sentence, or that idea that you keep hanging onto, and delete it.

ⓒ Lincoln Black 2024

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