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I write about design, website design and personal experience from a practical angle, how to make design clearer, and easier to comprehend. From UX principles to code-level detail, each article focuses on design that actually works.

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Dev Sessions: Revisiting Projects I Built 15 Years Ago

Backups & Old Projects If you opened my old file backups, you’d find a different version of me tucked away in folders with names I no longer recognize. They’re like old photographs, blurred at the edges—half-built websites, landing pages that went nowhere, applications with unfinished logic.The projects sit waiting,…

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Caffeine-Infused Conversations

Dev Sessions: How Candid Chats Shape Our Development Team

If you were to waltz into our office around half-ten on a typical workday, you’d likely stumble upon our daily developer rendezvous—imagine a small, caffeine-dependent conclave of coders hunched around a table. There’s me, with a rather too-long history of wrangling code (15 years, if we’re counting), a few seasoned…

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Designing & Building Sophie Kate Photography

Designing with Figma With a clear creative vision guiding her process, Sophie once again reached for Figma to sculpt her online identity. Every visual element received careful attention—from thoughtfully selected colour palettes to perfectly balanced spacing—ensuring that each page felt welcoming, polished, and true to her unique brand. Putting the…

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