UX designer by day; artist by night. Mum all day every day. She/her.
Perth, Australia
Joined April 2007
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We’re shaking it up this year and running✨TWO✨ panel sessions at #DDDPerth - one on flexible working / inclusive teams and a technical AMA. We got so excited we decided to open question submissions a day early! Just hit the link, choose a panel and go 💨
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Here’s a long thread of things I did in my portfolio presentation for my current IC design role.
This isn’t advice on what you should do, but it might make you think differently about giving presentations.
So.
🧵 Bits and bobs below, with some reflections at the end.
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The more your target audience does not look like you, the more you should be skeptical of your design intuition. Despite having seen thousands of a/b test results for minor design details, I am still regularly surprised by the results.
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Designers watching people use their interfaces #designtwitter
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HELL YEAH I HAVE TIME OFF FROM WORK
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
I WILL TRY TO RELAX BUT ULTIMATELY END UP INTERNALLY CHASTISING MYSELF FOR NOT USING MY FREE TIME TO CREATE ONE OF SOCIETY'S MOST BELOVED WORKS OF ART
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I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections:
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LOVE TO CHECK IN ON MY FRIENDS SO WE CAN BOTH SAY "HOW ARE YOU HOLDING UP" AT THE SAME TIME, NERVOUSLY LAUGH, AND THEN SAY "NOT GREAT" AT THE SAME TIME AND NERVOUSLY LAUGH AGAIN
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Incoming transmission. #MessageFromTheDoctor #DoctorWho
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We want to help. So from today, anyone can use our creative apps completely free for three months. Take 50% off if you want to buy. And we're going to engage 100 freelance creatives for paid work. affin.co/WeWantToHelp
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I wrote this for the @Guardian. Rebuilding more robust, localised economies will help us to withstand shocks to our fragile supply chains. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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You're supposed to wash your hands for 20 sec, which is the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice. But I'm tired of singing Happy Birthday and you probably are too, so I've done the very important public service of compiling other songs with roughly 20 sec choruses to sing:
