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29 Sep 2015 • 2 min read

Questions to ask your design work →

Last month I spent some time updating my portfolio [https://afroleft.com/portfolio/]. As a product / user experience / web designer, it can be quite tricky to present your work to others. The rock star visual designers of this world can get away with presenting screenshots of their stunning visual work

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27 Jul 2015 • 1 min read

An Icon a Day →

Keeps the doctor away. Just found this blog [http://icon-a-day.com/] full of wonderful icons. This was one of my favourites.

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26 Jul 2015 • 2 min read

Afrolive →

I’ve been planning a rebuild of my blog for a while now. If I’ve learned one thing from product development, it’s know what problem you’re trying to solve. So I sat down and actually thought about my goal: To write more frequently. I wanted to worry

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1 May 2015 • 1 min read

Same Same. But Different. →

It’s Sunday, late morning, and I’m right in the middle of cleaning the bathroom. In the other room I hear a frustrated girlfriend struggling to find accommodation on - lets say - website X, for our trip to the Amalfi Coast. Complaints flying left, right and centre, vented

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4 Apr 2015 • 1 min read

How to Pitch Your Product to the Press →

Last Tuesday I popped in to DoES Liverpool to see Matthew Hughes [https://twitter.com/matthewhughes] give a talk on how to pitch your product to the press. He’s a tech journalist at MakeUseOf [https://twitter.com/makeuseof] — so he had some lessons to share from the other side

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4 Jan 2015 • 3 min read

You produce results: Learn from these →

It’s nearly been a year since I joined Fruitful [http://lovefruitful.com] - a fintech startup that’s working to rethink how savers save and how borrowers borrow. Since then we’ve been through a significant product redesign, a complete branding overhaul, a successful soft-launch and a customer response

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16 Dec 2013 • 1 min read

Shortcuts You Can’t Take →

Last month Sage [http://www.sage.co.uk] approached me asking if I could write an article on marketing for their small business community. To narrow the context a bit, I concentrated on marketing websites. The outcome of which I'm really pleased with. The short post [http://www.sage.co.

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26 Nov 2013 • 1 min read

Our Duty →

> Firstly, think about what your pages do, not what they look like. Let your design flow from the services which they will provide to your users, rather than from some overarching idea of what you want pages to look like. Let form follow function, rather than trying to take a

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18 Oct 2013 • 1 min read

This is How You Automate →

Just received a wonderfully engaging / automated / interesting / human / polite / funny / direct / personal upgrade message (there’s an oxymoron there, I know) from the folk at TeuxDeux [https://teuxdeux.com/]. This is how automated marketing should be: > Dearest Tom, > It’s been six months since the launch of the new TeuxDeux

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★Featured • 7 Oct 2013 • 2 min read

Lazy Loading Responsive Images →

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more below or see the Demo → [https://afroleft.github.io/Lazy-Loading-Responsive-Images/] ---Most of last week I was rebuilding a website for a longstanding client. Performance (i.e.how fast the thing renders) is not only important to this client, it’s imperative. A good proportion of their customers

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9 Sep 2013 • 3 min read

Product Design Process →

When we have a new product idea (and are lucky enough to have the skills and tools to execute on it), it’s often more than tempting to jump in with two feet and start building the thing. Before we know it, we’re pitching the hows before whys and

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Portugal
5 Sep 2013 • 1 min read

Portugal →

Had a wonderful time in the Algarve, Portugal. We hired a car for most of our stay and travelled right along the south coast. Check out the full Flickr Set › [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tdarlow/sets/72157635285961061/] If you ever visit, make sure you check out Silves Castle [http:

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5 Aug 2013 • 1 min read

Small Stuff →

Bijan Sabet [http://bijansabet.com/post/57425682026/what-if-steve-jobs-was-happy-and-balanced] on Steve Jobs: > His relationship with friends deteriorated for the most part. His relationship with family wasn’t great either. > Obviously none of us know the real story but the book reflects conventional wisdom: Steve was focused on Apple and Steve. And

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★Featured • 3 Aug 2013 • 1 min read

What’s next? →

When we hit the bottom of your web page, what do you want us to do? Where should we go next? What are other people saying about this service? Should we get in touch with your team or look at the tech specs for this ground-breaking new product? Too many

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19 Jul 2013 • 1 min read

Back to School →

I spent most of Wednesday helping out at Liverpool's Cardinal Heenan School for an Enterprise Day [http://cardinal-heenan.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=452&catid=34&Itemid=160&lang=en] . Apart from having great fun and a school dinner, I worked with the students on

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