Writing.

Examines the choice between native and bespoke app design. Native apps follow platform conventions for usability and faster updates, while bespoke designs ensure consistency across devices but can frustrate users if platform norms are ignored. Balancing familiarity and cross-platform consistency is key.

Highlights the value of a simplified, customer-focused UX in e-commerce, using examples of how easy search, seamless product discovery, and strong mobile design can drive growth, loyalty, and profitability.

Examines the bandwidth impact of frequent, large app updates. Heavy apps like Facebook and LinkedIn consume significant data, while apps like Overcast manage updates efficiently. Developers should minimize update size and release updates only when truly beneficial to users.

Published in the papers again - Examining how AI-powered assistants, bots, and voice control could reshape online shopping, while noting traditional interfaces remain essential for comparing and researching products effectively.

Crafting the digital presence for a unique new hotel development. The journey we took through research, user experience design, UI design and development.

Covers Apple's WWDC 2016 launch of Universal Clipboard, which lets users copy on one device and paste on another using proximity and Apple ID. The feature is simple compared to advanced clipboard apps but adds cross-device efficiency, reflecting Apple's focus on streamlined, secure, and practical functionality.

Soon after the Find My Friends service launched for iOS, I went through a short thought exercise to rethink how I thought it should work at the time. These are the outcomes of that design exercise.

A report by the Design Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council highlights how good design drives business performance and economic value, brought to life through an animated short. The message reinforces design as a critical driver of success for organizations of all sizes.

The Panasonic Lumix CM1 explores the idea of smartphones as primary cameras, combining high-end photography hardware with mobile functionality in response to the decline of compact cameras. While its practicality and market viability are uncertain, it represents a bold design statement that repositions the phone as a camera-first device.

I wish if I emptied the dock on iOS of icons it disappeared. Returning once you re-entered rearrange mode and dragged an icon towards the bottom of the screen. On my iPad at least I rarely use the apps on the subsequent screens and so the dock looses it utility.