Latest in: design thinking
July 28, 2025
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What is Design Intent?

Why being deliberate with your design choices matter.
April 21, 2025
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5 min read

Mo Features, Mo Problems.

Just because the product is slapping you on the wrist, doesn't mean it's your fault.
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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A Criticism-powered Jetpack

How learning to parse criticism improves the design and designer
February 24, 2025
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The Halo in the Holistic

To have a great design, first you need a good one.
February 17, 2025
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6 min read

The Devil in the Details

How attention to detail turns good design into great design.
December 9, 2024
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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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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 9, 2024
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5 min read

Get Obsessed

How obsessions can solve your design problems.
August 5, 2024
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Ideation and Being Human

What has boredom and failure ever done for us?
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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Validate, Validate, Validate

Validate even before you have anything to validate.
April 15, 2024
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Don’t Let Somebody Else Tell You What You Want

They're actually telling you what they want.
April 8, 2024
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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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Design is Chaos

It can be utterly disheartening when the development process doesn't fit within the confines of those well-illustrated tetragons.
October 23, 2023
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Too Busy for Bad Design.

Most people are too busy to realise the products they use everyday are just a little bit off.
October 16, 2023
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8 min read

Designing for Business

Assuming you’re in the business of making goods (like maybe medical devices), the right design decisions at the right time can mean the difference between a business being a success, and a business continuing to struggle.
September 18, 2023
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Design Thinking and Chesterton’s Fence

Avoid changing a given situation before you understand some of the reasons why it's remained unchanged for so long
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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