The Hardest Way to Make a GIF
Everyone loves a good GIF, and my favourite (of all time) is this one (circa 2015):
Blog posts by Will Grant
UK-based UX expert with 20+ years experience in global web and mobile product design, accessibility, and usability.
Latest posts
How to Get Your First Job in UX: A Guide
The UX winter of 2023-2025
How Software Engineering Leaders Can Harness Generative AI to Enhance User Experience
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming user experiences by enabling digital products to generate useful outputs from natural language prompts. As software engineering leaders, it’s crucial to adapt to this shift and integrate Generative AI into your digital products. Here’s how you can strategically approach this transformation.
Stopify - my own DIY music streaming service
My relationship with Spotify has changed over the years. I’ve had my account for 11 years and I’ve listened to over a million minutes of music. I’ve made playlists for 1,000s of people, discovered artists and whole genres and generally loved Spotify - and been an evangelist for it.
This is a complete #humblebrag but I’m ok with that
This is a complete #humblebrag but I’m ok with that.
Are you planning to pre-emptively integrate AI-powered features into your software?
“Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.” (Jakob Nielsen’s Law of Internet User Experience) Users transfer their expectations of one system across to other systems they use. As generative AI-enabled features become more ubiquitous, users will naturally anticipate this functionality in your…
Stretching the User-Centered Design / Going to the Gym Metaphor to Breaking Point
In the world of digital product development and User Experience (UX), User-Centered Design (UCD) often sounds like a straightforward concept, much like a regular gym routine. But in practice, it’s a challenging endeavor that (from my experience) many organizations struggle to implement effectively.
UI, UX, CX, Service Design, defined with analogies
CX is UX, over time
The UX of Unretirement: Implications for User Experience (UX) in Digital Products and Workplaces
High inflation and insufficient savings for retirement is leading many older workers to delay or even abandon retirement plans. Research in the Harvard Business Review suggests that multigenerational teams can enhance productivity and performance, given that team members are willing to learn from their differences, as noted by researcher Megan Gerhardt.
Strategies for Successful User Interface Migrations
Embarking on the transformation of a legacy application to incorporate a new user interface may seem daunting. It involves modernizing a web application while attempting to mitigate disruption for users, which often proves to be a complex task.