Thoughts on design
I’ve recently started a new side project called Gay Places , a curated guide to gay bars, clubs, and queer spaces around the world. The aim is to build something quieter, more considered, and more useful than the usual listings, especially for people exploring a city through its gay scene. It’s early days, but I’m excited to see where it goes. I’d love to hear in the comments if you have any ideas…
What is Pi-hole and why run it on Windows? Two years ago I wrote a step by step guide explaining how to install Pi-hole on Windows 10 to block ads on your home network. I definitely was not prepared for the response! The post received hundreds of thousands of visits and heaps of helpful comments that helped me improve and refine the instructions. I wrote the blog so that I’d have a go-to guide in…
Ever since becoming a Product Designer I’ve been on a gradual journey of realising that being open and transparent with your work is almost always better. At first working in an open and transparent fashion felt counter-intuitive.
I love Audible.
This week as a side project I decided to recreate this year’s October Apple event invite in Figma. Why do this? Every Apple event has its own particular style with beautifully crafted graphics specific to that event. This October’s event was announced yesterday with an invite including almost luminous overlapping circles. Personally, this is one of my favourites; it reminds me of looking up into a…
Here’s a lesson on designing for edge cases that I learned while travelling around Greece this summer. We were lucky enough to be able to hike in the northern mountainous region of Zagoria and then spend some time on the island of the Milos where we mostly ate too much and sat on the beach. Either way, this post is not about my holiday, but about a usability edge case that it exposed me to… Most…
Forget skeuomorphism, or even the newly coined neumorphism. macOS Big Sur is flatter than ever. In the last few weeks there have been a lot of suggestions that this is the start of a new “fun” era of visual design and that Apple is returning to skeuomorphism, or even a new thing called neumorphism . Neumorphism is a design trend that focuses on creating an impression of a realistic 3D environment…
This post is an attempt to provide a visual comparison of pretty dramatic UI changes between macOS Catalina and Big Sur.
I’ve been running Pi-hole on my Windows 10 PC for over four months now. When I initially installed Pi-hole on my PC I wrote a short set-up guide . I did this purely so I could remember the steps I took to get it working on Windows 10, but was completely blown away by the reception. This blog which normally gets around twenty visits a week started to get thousands of visits, all to the post about…
What is Pi-hole and why run it on Windows? Pi-hole is hands-down, the best ad blocker available. That’s because it acts as a network wide ad-blocker. This means it blocks ads on every single device on your network without any browser extensions clogging up your browser. It even blocks ads inside apps. What’s more, unlike browser based ad-blockers which just prevent ads from being displayed in your…