Hi I'm Nathaniel, a Software Designer - a designer who codes. I create innovative, user-focused digital experiences, blending Design Thinking with practical development and accessibility.
Someone asked me a question last week that really made me think. They asked, “so where do you sit between design and development?” It didn’t take me long to answer because I have thought about this a lot over my career. I’ve always gravitated towards doing both design and development. I love both equally. I […]
This is why we do user research! To find out what’s really happening. It’s one of the best ways to stop guessing and start knowing.
As a Product Manager, you can ensure accessibility is baked into your project roadmap and foster collaboration across teams. This collaboration is constant and ongoing.
A quote has been banging around in my head for a week now: A problem well defined is half solved. Genius. So often we’re tempted to find a fix without first understanding the problem and then a lot of time is wasted realising we don’t really understand the problem to solve. Make sure to clearly […]
Give others the help you never got. Growing up, we face challenges and obstacles, sometimes without the proper guidance or support. This experience is tough, but it also shapes and defines us as people and we carry this emotional response into our future interactions. Looking back, how much better it would have been to have […]
I had an interesting discussion with someone the other day about empathy in UX design which I wanted to expand on. I will use this as a reply to that conversation, as I realise I haven’t fully considered what Empathy is. It seems in UX design empathy gets misunderstood where we have to feel the […]
(I’m reposting this from a comment I made on a Laura Baker post, and there’s a great discussion here on this topic.) The question was: Design often has a low ‘business maturity’ perception. My answer: I was listening to Beyond UX Design podcast (thank you Jeremy Miller!) and heard this – “Design is ‘preventative’ and […]