Blog articles

I regularly write articles about startups, design, UX, magic, art, gardening, philosophy and more. Every article I’ve written can be read on this page.

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  1. OSTA/ULTA
     ∙ Personal
  2. My magic gig setup
     ∙ Magic
  3. Creating an effective design system using the DS Canvas
     ∙ Design
  4. Speaking at PUSH UX in Munich
     ∙ Personal
  5. Designing complex desktop interfaces
     ∙ Design
  6. How to use Chrome’s new ‘Follow’ button
     ∙ Dev
  7. Presenting back UX findings so that people actually care
     ∙ Design
  8. Build a free writer’s portfolio with Carrd
     ∙ Startup
  9. The best new features in ProtoPie 5.5
     ∙ Design
  10. Must-have Menu Bar apps
     ∙ Personal
  11. Seven books to improve your UX writing
     ∙ Design
  12. Fourteen short answers to “what is art?”
     ∙ Design
  13. Using voice principles and a tone map to write consistently
     ∙ Design
  14. Andrew Huang’s Secret to Productivity
     ∙ Personal
  15. How to develop your design eye
     ∙ Design
  16. How to use interactive components in Figma
     ∙ Design
  17. Conducting design research for startups
     ∙ Design
  18. How to convert an idea into a business
     ∙ Startup
  19. Why you should talk to yourself
     ∙ Sound Off
  20. When’s the best time to audio journal?
     ∙ Sound Off
  21. Learning to write commercially
     ∙ Personal
  22. Prototyping the iOS navigation bar in ProtoPie
     ∙ Design
  23. How audio journaling helps my meditation
     ∙ Sound Off
  24. Audio journaling vs bullet journaling
     ∙ Sound Off
  25. More great personal websites
     ∙ Design
  26. Become a business-aware designer
     ∙ Design
  27. Three times we dropped app features
     ∙ Sound Off
  28. Headspace’s multi-platform strategy
     ∙ Startup
  29. Audio journaling using the iOS Voice Memos app
     ∙ Sound Off
  30. The big mistake Quibi made
     ∙ Startup
  31. Friction in journaling
     ∙ Sound Off
  32. The Tony Hsieh challenge
     ∙ Startup
  33. Auto Layout 3.0 in Figma
     ∙ Design
  34. Testing your startup idea
     ∙ Sound Off
  35. Low-fi app screens to study/relax to
     ∙ Sound Off
  36. Get started with Variants in Figma
     ∙ Design
  37. Reserve the name of your app on the iOS app store
     ∙ Sound Off
  38. Start with a make-believe product
     ∙ Sound Off
  39. Guitar meditation
     ∙ Meditation
  40. Should you build your app idea?
     ∙ Sound Off
  41. I quit my job. Here’s what’s next...
     ∙ Personal
  42. Four notes on Silence
     ∙ Meditation
  43. Trick yourself into starting
     ∙ Personal
  44. Visions 2020
     ∙ Design
  45. Erosion
     ∙ Personal
  46. The loss of certainty
     ∙ Design
  47. How I crowdfunded my book on Kickstarter
     ∙ Books
  48. These are my favourite personal websites
     ∙ Design
  49. What to read to get you through the pandemic
     ∙ Books
  50. Do U(X) believe in magic?
     ∙ Design
  51. Seven Sick Books I Read This Year
     ∙ Design
  52. Hills: the best framework for determining where to go
     ∙ Design
  53. Openers when performing magic
     ∙ Magic
  54. The Neat Review
     ∙ Personal
  55. Facilitation Skills 101
     ∙ Design
  56. Redesigning the NHS Blood Donation app
     ∙ Design
  57. Startup Weekend 2019
     ∙ Startup
  58. Rebranding the world’s biggest ski trip
     ∙ Design
  59. How Kant solved one of the greatest dilemmas
     ∙ Philosophy
  60. My master’s thesis
     ∙ Philosophy
  61. ‘The Garden’ at Future Fest 2018
     ∙ Personal
  62. The Third Rule of Magic
     ∙ Magic
  63. The Lottery Illusion
     ∙ Magic
  64. Quotes on Magic
     ∙ Dev
  65. Earth Action Day
     ∙ Personal
  66. New blog
     ∙ Personal