Explore the collection of my writings, including blog posts, user research reports, and design guides.
A step-by-step process for creating effective user stories in the context of environmental data projects, emphasising collaboration and user-centered design.
I believe decision support tools should be effective and user-focused. That's why I analysed past projects, creating best practice guidelines and detailed documentation on how to plan, build and maintain decision support tools that address real user needs.
I was the lead author of this publication describing a design sprint conducted to develop a prototype decision support tool for carbon-focused land use decisions in rural Devon.
Guidance for developers and designers to increase the discoverability and usefulness of geospatial data through user-focused data portals.
This blog post examines the question of whether every project needs a design system, reflecting on the experience of creating a design system for the myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM. It discusses the benefits of consistency and efficiency, while acknowledging the challenges of creating and maintaining a design system.
This blog post explores the significance of personas in product development, discussing how they enhance user empathy, guide design decisions, prioritise features, and facilitate usability testing, with examples demonstrating their practical application in environmental data products and services.
This blog series delves into the concept of design systems, explaining their purpose in creating reusable components for web and software development, discussing tools for managing them, exploring different approaches to their creation, and questioning the necessity of implementing a design system for every project, while showcasing examples of organizations that have successfully adopted design systems to enhance consistency, efficiency, usability, and brand unity in their digital products.
This blog post dives into the process of creating a design system for the myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM, covering different aspects such as defining design principles, creating a moodboard to establish the desired look and feel, conducting a UI inventory, implementing atomic design principles, integrating the design system into multiple projects with different tech stacks, and outlining the workflow for creating and maintaining components.
This blog post explores the decision-making process behind implementing a design system for the myHAZ-VCT PLATFORM, highlighting the benefits of consistency, improved user experience, efficiency, and customization, while discussing various tools available for creating and maintaining design systems, with a focus on the KSS node as a practical solution for documenting and sharing stylesheets.
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