A place where Liam Nugent writes about the web, software product management, and other related ideas.
I’ve had another article published on A List Apart. This time, I am writing about how to build products that stick . A List Apart is the OG webzine from the people who literally wrote the book on Designing with Web Standards , Responsive Web Design , Mobile First Design , and many, many more.
Inspired by Zach Waugh and his simple sketching app, Whirl , I’ve released an iOS app today that does one thing, and hopefully does it well. It is called Milngavie Train and it shows live departure information for the next train to leave Milngavie Station in Scotland. Why bother, you may ask! The answer is simple: when I am taking a train into town soon, the time when the next train will leave is…
You have backlog full of ideas. You probably have some work that is half-done but always seems to get stuck. There's maybe a fresh incident that's emerging. And there's a key metric that looks like it is going South but you're not even able to make time to think about it. Sound familiar? So how to do you get your head up and decide where to focus your attention and your team's energy? Get…
Outcomes not outputs Focus on the benefits for the users and customers. It should be about outcomes not outputs. That’s easy to say, but what does it mean? It means... no one cares how many meetings you went to no one cares how many defects the regression testing pack found no one cares how many questions your drafted for customer research sessions It means... be clear on why this is important for…
Recently, I have been considering moving to a new role at work that is 100% focussed on accessibility. This led me to having a look at my own site and running the Google Lighthouse audit to check I was practising what I preach. When I first published this website, I was very pleased that I was clocking 100/100 across the board . But... entropy. Which meant that without anything consciously being…
This might be rich coming from a person you’ve never met in person. Or, more accurately, I should say nearly met in person. In the autumn of 2018, I travelled all the way from Scotland to Chicago to hear you talk at An Event Apart. I made the journey with my former colleague, Laurence “ Fuzzy Logic ” Hughes. He tuned me into web standards and the whole “A ~thing~ Apart” universe. He was the one…
The goal To add a search function to this website as simply as possible. And to keep it in line with my ascetic ideals . Research and execution! After a bit of judicious Googling on the subject of how to build a search function on a static site, I found an article by Raymond Camden called Adding Search to your Eleventy Static Site with Lunr . His post talks about the wider discussion on how to…
This is the obligatory post about how, after neglecting my site for a while, it took me 4 hrs to get back to position where I could write a post! Very briefly, this site is build using the eleventy static site generator. It is hosted on netlify . It was originally built with an early version of 11ty and has been running for a few years with me infrequently adding posts. In the time since I last…
When do you get the time to learn? Is it at work? Is it at home? But is that at the expense of spending time with people you love? “What are you doing?”, they say. Why do you learn? Is it because you feel you have to? Is it because you want to? Is it because you have a defined goal or is it because you somehow need to feel progress for its own sake? If you must learn at work, and most of us do, do…
If you're interested, read about How to Get a Dysfunctional Team Back on Track on the webzine from the people who literally wrote the book on Designing with Web Standards , Responsive Web Design , Mobile First Design , and many, many more. I'm now starting to wonder why I know so much about trying to fix misfiring software teams... Hang on!! Maybe it's me... I'm the problem!