Notes
Notes from the work.
Practical thinking from the decisions behind shipped products.
/notes/what-a-ux-audit-should-give-you
What a UX audit should leave you with
A useful audit does not end with a scorecard and a feeling. It ends with a ranked list of evidenced problems that your team can start fixing on Monday.
/notes/placeholder-content-is-a-conversion-problem
Lorem Ipsum is live on your website, and it's costing you
The most damaging website problems are rarely design problems. They are QA failures nobody looked for: placeholder text, dead links, and buttons wired to the wrong place.
/notes/charity-website-accessibility-mission-critical
For charity websites, accessibility is the mission
A charity that exists to serve disabled and digitally excluded people cannot treat an inaccessible website as a technical debt item. It is the mission, failing quietly.
/notes/one-week-product-definition-sprint
What a one-week product definition sprint should leave you with
A useful definition sprint does not end with a wall of workshop notes. It ends with decisions a team can price, build, and defend.
/notes/design-engineering-same-loop
Design and engineering in the same loop: what actually changes
Removing the handoff is not about holding more meetings. It changes which decisions get made, when they get made, and what survives into production.
/notes/scope-mvp-without-disposable-prototype
How to scope an MVP without building a disposable prototype
An MVP should be small because the promise is narrow, not because the foundations are expected to be thrown away.
/notes/practical-performance-budget
Looks fast vs is fast: a practical performance budget
Performance improves when a team decides what it is willing to spend before the page is designed, instrumented, and filled with media.
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