Blog
A designer who likes to write.
For a selection of ramblings on an almost daily basis where I dump ideas, observations, quotes, travel notes, and consumed culture, enjoy reading the posts below.
Week 37 – 2021
19 September 2021
Week 36 – 2021
12 September 2021
Week 35 – 2021
5 September 2021
Week 34 – 2021
29 August 2021
Week 33 – 2021
22 August 2021
LEGO Build & Talk
18 August 2021
Week 32 – 2021
14 August 2021
Week 31 – 2021
8 August 2021
Week 30 – 2021
1 August 2021
Week 29 – 2021
25 July 2021
My first month living in London
21 July 2021
Week 28 – 2021
18 July 2021
Week 27 – 2021
11 July 2021
Week 26 – 2021
4 July 2021
Week 25 – 2021
27 June 2021
Week 24 – 2021
20 June 2021
Week 23 – 2021
13 June 2021
Week 22 – 2021
6 June 2021
Giving help
5 June 2021
Week 21 – 2021
30 May 2021
Kindness
25 May 2021
LEGO LGBTQIA+ Set
20 May 2021
Post Quarantine Update
19 May 2021
I made it to London
4 May 2021
Adidas ZX 8000 ‘Bricks’
29 April 2021
WTF is an NFT?
27 April 2021
App Tracking Transparency
26 April 2021
Apple has a plan
22 April 2021
Laws of UX
21 April 2021
iMac Evolution
20 April 2021
Friends who left us
16 April 2021
No added sugar
13 April 2021
Sharing my work
12 April 2021
Design Quotes
11 April 2021
Am I a polymath?
7 April 2021
Two Meals a Day
5 April 2021
Lego SmartBricks
1 April 2021
Carbon results for my site
31 March 2021
Show up and practice
30 March 2021
The ultimate Experience Design Community Reference List
29 March 2021
365 Days Locked Down
27 March 2021
My Creative Type
25 March 2021
Your Digital Strategy Sucks
24 March 2021
Nutrition by Design
22 March 2021
ADPList Mentor
18 March 2021
Marketing work for design
17 March 2021
Your heart can tell
16 March 2021
I want to podcast
15 March 2021
Biodegradable Face Masks
14 March 2021
McDonald’s global packaging system
13 March 2021
Rams pallettes
12 March 2021
Daft Punk Break Up
11 March 2021
Virtual First
11 March 2021
UX is a practice
10 March 2021
Hardly working
9 March 2021
LEGO Women’s Day Campaign
6 March 2021
Now Page
5 March 2021
Content Systems
4 March 2021
Editing your work
3 March 2021
Data-Informed
1 March 2021
System Font Stack
27 February 2021
Buy me a coffee
26 February 2021
2021 Site Update
24 February 2021
clubpad
22 February 2021
LEGO White Noise
21 February 2021
Editor X
15 February 2021
My Daily Rituals
13 February 2021
Side Projects
2 February 2021
Pablito Planeta
25 January 2021
Dealing with haters
22 January 2021
My Job Title
21 January 2021
Gentleman
19 January 2021
My blog in 2021
6 January 2021
How to talk to white kids about racism
4 January 2021
2020 in 366 seconds
31 December 2020
Adaptability
16 December 2020
Flash Player End-Of-Life
27 November 2020
Type Terminology
12 November 2020
Globe + Pantone Skateboards
15 October 2020
Women Who Design
31 August 2020
LEGO Braille Bricks
25 August 2020
Design Coach
25 August 2020
Coach vs Advisor
23 August 2020
Remove << & >> in WordPress
14 August 2020
Featureless
14 August 2020
Career Path
11 August 2020
What we design
11 August 2020
Ask Ahmed Anything
6 August 2020
Mars Rover Logo
4 August 2020
Killing the hamburger menu
29 July 2020
120 Days Lockdown
23 July 2020
SUMMER COVID
18 July 2020
Johnnie Walker Paper Bottle
15 July 2020
Black Illustrations
14 July 2020
Criticizing others
8 July 2020
Proud Black Business
4 July 2020
Second Half
1 July 2020
Rubber Ball
20 June 2020
The Sopranos Dictionary
18 June 2020
Heinz rebrand
15 June 2020
In-Person Meetings are strange
15 June 2020
Modern meets retro
13 June 2020
Blacks Who Design
7 June 2020
Designer’s Code of Ethics
6 June 2020
Doomscrolling
3 June 2020
2020 Redesign
29 May 2020
People Over Profit
26 May 2020
A Decade of Responsive Web Design
25 May 2020
Make America Safe Again
16 May 2020
The rebellious loner
15 May 2020
Remote should be the norm
14 May 2020
Random thoughts during the pandemic
13 May 2020
Live Lightly
5 April 2020
This is everything
31 March 2020
Simply fall in love with life
28 March 2020
An imagined letter from Corona to Humans
27 March 2020
Just Pause
27 March 2020
Back on Twitter
21 March 2020
COVID-19
20 March 2020
Recording your life
17 March 2020
RIP Boosted Boards
6 March 2020
Moldy Whopper
22 February 2020
LEGO Masters
21 February 2020
Coca-Cola Feel It
21 February 2020
Durex Rebrand
20 February 2020
Durex Font
19 February 2020
Do what you love
14 February 2020
Selling Out
13 February 2020
Content Designer
11 February 2020
Versioning & Visioning
10 February 2020
Portfolio Critique
9 February 2020
Ideas
8 February 2020
Power Outage
7 February 2020
Digital Minimalism
5 February 2020
Dan Mace Remixes
4 February 2020
Design Leadership
4 February 2020
Freelancing
3 February 2020
Be a kind Designer
2 February 2020
What is an ECD?
1 February 2020
Struggle
1 February 2020
Free Year in NYC
31 January 2020
DoubleTake
30 January 2020
Do you need talent?
29 January 2020
Pantone’s Color of the Year
28 January 2020
Remote work
27 January 2020
Working Remotely
26 January 2020
IGTV is failing
25 January 2020
Unknown wisdom
24 January 2020
Fear of flying
23 January 2020
Design Books
22 January 2020
Be my friend
21 January 2020
TGIM
20 January 2020
I need your questions
19 January 2020
UFC 246 Preview
18 January 2020
Internet is broken
18 January 2020
Brian Feeney Quotes
17 January 2020
2020 Design Trends
16 January 2020
An Ordinary Life
15 January 2020
Forgot to blog … again
14 January 2020
The Sneaker Shack
10 January 2020
Mild Autism
9 January 2020
How to design with content
8 January 2020
Oops … I forgot to blog
7 January 2020
Binge Watching Casey Neistat
4 January 2020
Weekly or Daily vlogs?
3 January 2020
366 1 second videos
2 January 2020
My 2020 Goals
1 January 2020
Help plant 20 million trees
26 October 2019
You’ve got to show up
24 September 2019
The world needs a tech diet
6 July 2019
2019 MacBook Pro wishlist
3 July 2019
Google’s Creative Canvas
28 June 2019
2019 Product Design Hiring Report
27 June 2019
RecordScreen.io
20 June 2019
Swiss Miss
20 June 2019
Three Things Matter
19 June 2019
Sustainable Web Manifesto
18 June 2019
50 things I’m grateful for in 2018
31 December 2018
Bali
18 December 2018
London Day Trip
18 May 2018
New York 2018
17 May 2018
London 2018
6 May 2018
I’ve started vlogging
22 February 2018
What is a design system?
13 January 2018
GoPro, Pros & Cons
12 January 2018
Do more in 2018
9 January 2018
2017 Site Maintenance
24 December 2017
Live the Adventure
23 December 2017
Let the Connection Be What It Is
23 October 2017
New York 2017
28 August 2017
Freelance TV
28 April 2017
Lego minifigure display
20 April 2017
System design: Block builders
31 January 2017
Designers: learn to code
20 January 2017
KLM iFly 50
12 January 2017
Intentions for 2017
3 January 2017
50 Things 2016
31 December 2016
Launch It
29 December 2016
5 Admin things to do for 2017
22 December 2016
Transparency
28 October 2016
Creative Mornings
24 October 2016
41 Charity Water Campaign
31 August 2016
Living style guides for new team members
12 August 2016
Freelance Creative Director Success
6 August 2016
Design Disruptors
4 August 2016
50+ Things they won’t teach you at Design School
1 August 2016
Designer Ego
26 July 2016
What makes you tick?
16 July 2016
LinkedIn username
14 July 2016
Why I subscribe to UX, but don’t call myself a UX Designer
13 July 2016
Mobile Input Types
17 June 2016
Purpose
16 June 2016
Learn all about Type
10 June 2016
National Freelancers Day
9 June 2016
It’s ok to …
2 June 2016
The most important meal of the day
30 May 2016
Web Designers in 2016
19 May 2016
How to BOLD text in your messages
22 April 2016
Day of love
14 February 2016
The Letters of Gratitude
7 January 2016
Hello 2016
1 January 2016
15 epic moments in 2015
31 December 2015
Like my Joburg sunset on Instagram
30 November 2015
One small step
13 November 2015
2 out of 3 device updates from Apple
14 October 2015
3 device updates I’d like to see from Apple
4 October 2015
iOS CarPlay UX Fail
25 September 2015
Be Kind. Expect nothing in return.
4 August 2015
Fuck Lorem Ipsum
31 July 2015
The 32-Hour Workweek
24 July 2015
Nobody Tells This To Beginners
28 June 2015
GOBAG
27 June 2015
The color of Craig Jamieson
22 June 2015
Freelancing Creative Director Failure
17 June 2015
Spoken
13 June 2015
Humility
31 May 2015
10 Years Ago
30 May 2015
Shorty Interview
25 May 2015
Pursue the things you love doing
22 May 2015
Available for hire
19 May 2015
2015 Web Design Trends
17 May 2015
Make it easy to give
15 May 2015
Professional websites on a small budget
6 May 2015
Star Wars Day
4 May 2015
7 Supplements
26 April 2015
Learn to study
18 April 2015
Social recognition for online learning
12 April 2015
Reducing phone reach
11 April 2015
Writing badly
8 April 2015
Productivity & being chained to your desk
7 April 2015
Non-responsive web design
25 March 2015
The only thing that’s constant, is change
18 March 2015
11 Lives
4 March 2015
Material Wealth
3 March 2015
Apple – The Song
17 December 2014
Creative in Business
28 August 2014
Increasing Followers on Twitter
23 August 2014
Focus on the project, not awards
8 August 2014
Legocy
18 July 2014
Handoff
3 June 2014
Add a domain as your location in Instagram
8 May 2014
Treehouse
6 May 2014
Minifig Mondays
3 March 2014
Use the force wisely you must
8 January 2014
The better part of 2013
31 December 2013
Nelson Mandela
6 December 2013
Crafting Digital
20 November 2013
Not so appy
22 October 2013
Tossing Tables
9 October 2013
Donate to Charity Water
30 July 2013
Bean counting …
24 July 2013
FNB site redesign
15 July 2013
Clone Wars
15 July 2013
Don’t be a square
12 June 2013
Friday free social media tips
12 April 2013
Academy of Design Professionals
5 April 2013
My current Audible books
3 April 2013
Harlem Shake Agency Challenge
9 February 2013
The Digital Diet
30 January 2013
Downsizing
9 January 2013
7 things I’d like to see in digital for 2013
7 January 2013
Reflecting on 2012
31 December 2012
Fighting words!
21 November 2012
Tips when naming images for SEO
26 March 2012
An alternate approach to building a website
15 March 2012
My current Kindle reads
12 March 2012
FNB are quick to respond but are they responsive?
9 March 2012
Social Media Etiquette
17 February 2012
2012 resolutions need not be a revolution
9 January 2012
2011 a short look back
31 December 2011
What clients need to know about time
9 December 2011
Social Responsibility
31 October 2011
Why I don’t care much for SEO
21 October 2011
The brilliance of 140 characters
12 October 2011
My current iBooks reads
1 October 2011
Digital Copywriting
20 September 2011
Digital Monarchy website
14 September 2011
2011 September Birthday Campaign
25 August 2011
Friday finds + friendly tips
15 July 2011
Is Google+ the first real social network?
9 July 2011
Google+ first impressions
4 July 2011
Remember to be more social & less social media
3 July 2011
Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
30 June 2011
Design Professionalism
24 June 2011
Business advice I should have taken
16 June 2011
Get your head out of the clouds
31 May 2011
F*ck You. Pay Me.
13 May 2011
Digiguru 2011
30 April 2011
iPad in the house!
29 April 2011