I’m now almost three weeks into a new role with the app team and today took part in my first app hackathon. At first I was slightly alarmed that we were all going to be taking a day out of delivery with an important deadline on the horizon, but I thoroughly enjoyed the day and…

Core Web Vitals have become increasingly important in recent years as they play a significant role in determining a website’s search engine ranking. Core Web Vitals measure the user experience by looking at how quickly a page loads, how quickly it becomes interactive, and how visually stable it is while loading. By optimising Core Web…

I am fortunate enough to be someone who benefited enormously from the shift to remote work that came from the COVID19 pandemic. I had always found commuting to be a challenge for both my mental and physical health. When I worked for Mind, I commuted 4.5 hours a day from Brighton to East London. It…

I’ve been thinking about this post for a while, as I realised it’s something I’ve really turned a corner on in the last few years of my career. I’ve always been quite an introvert when it comes to my work, preferring the speed and focus that comes from designing, planning and executing product development with…

I was on holiday in Africa this week, leaving product behind and heading for the mountains and the sun. Whenever I’m away I tend to keep a sneaky eye on anything involving developers, because issues that arise there are usually the most complicated to fix, and I’m the one who knows what shade of yellow…

General Assembly at the moment are running a series of free introductory seminars in various specialist areas. They’ve been great, I’d definitely recommend signing up to a couple if you have the time. Last week I went to one on user experience design and I thought I’d share a highlight of the session. Usually when a…

A few months ago, I went to one of the really great (and free!) digital seminars run by Precedent Communications. The main takeaway for digital progress in an organisation was to “start where you are”, which was interesting for me as one of the things I was working on at the time was creating a…

With everyone on holiday over the summer, we’ve had some time at Time to Change to do a few nice UX improvements that have been on the list for a while. My favourite has been getting the site AMP ready on blogs and news stories. Working in comms, news sites amping their articles has been really useful for me.…

As Time to Change is a social movement, sharing personal stories from people with experience of mental health problems is an essential part of our content strategy. A lot of these stories we commission from the general public and host on the Time to Change blog, but we’re also a big fan of amplifying user-generated…

This blog is about removing redundant web content from a large site. Before I start, I should say that a much more sensible person would have got an agency to do this. At several points during the process (which I started in October) I’ve thought I was being far too stubbornly INTJ about the whole…