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Design

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Design

Usability testing when you have no research budget

Five participants and an afternoon will tell you more about your product than a quarter of internal debate.

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Designing interfaces for complex operational workflows

Software people use all day has different requirements from software people use occasionally. Optimising for the wrong one makes experts slower.

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Implementing design tokens so a rebrand is a configuration change

Tokens turn visual decisions into named values shared by design and code. Naming them well is the whole trick.

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Information architecture: organising a site around how people search

Most navigation reflects the organisation chart rather than user intent. Card sorting and tree testing fix that cheaply.

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Form design: the fastest route to more completions

Forms are where most digital transactions succeed or fail. A handful of well-established practices lift completion measurably.

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The design system audit worth running before you build one

Design systems are abandoned for organisational reasons more often than design ones. A short assessment up front predicts which ones will survive.

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Design handoff that does not lose intent

Handoff fails when it is a moment rather than a collaboration. The fix is mostly about when engineers are involved.

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Implementing dark mode properly

Dark mode is not an inverted palette. Contrast, elevation and imagery all need separate consideration.

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Microcopy: the small words that carry the interface

Buttons, labels, errors and empty states do more for usability than most visual decisions, and they are usually written last.

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