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Thoughts, ideas and solutions on UX, web accessibility and design
Our Humanising Technology blog is where we discuss our thoughts, ideas and solutions on experience design and delivery.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020How to transform retail UX with user journeys and personas
Our Head of Experience Delivery Hannah Tempest explains how the retail sector can capitalise on user journeys and personas to unpick the granularities of customer behaviour and deliver better experiences.
Hannah Tempest
Thursday, September 3, 2020The Stoic Designer
Our next webinar 'The Stoic Designer' with Principal UX Consultant Joe Knowles on 15th September draws on case studies to introduce stoicism as a concept and aims to put personal and professional development into that framework. In this article, he introduces some of the concepts he'll explore in more detail in the webinar.
Joe Knowles
Tuesday, August 11, 2020How to build accessible cards–block links
Joel Strohmeier, Accessibility Consultant, looks at a much-used feature of website interfaces: the 'card' component. He covers what cards are, common accessibility challenges they pose and how to create robust and accessible card components for your website.
Thursday, July 9, 2020Reimagining customers’ digital needs post-coronavirus
Nomensa CEO Simon Norris explores how and why customer behaviour has changed because of COVID-19. He asks: what are customers’ new digital needs post-coronavirus, and summarises some UX techniques you can use to better understand your audience’s specific needs.
Simon Norris
Thursday, July 2, 2020What I've learnt through Beta as a UXer
UX Consultant Amber Polley takes us behind the scenes on a GDS Beta project. Read her five key pieces of advice for any UXer starting a Beta project.
Amber Polley
Tuesday, June 30, 2020Alistair Duggin joins as Principal Accessibility Consultant
Alistair Duggin joins us as Principal Accessibility Consultant at an exciting time as more and more organisations wake up to the value of accessibility.
Thursday, June 25, 2020Running remote user research for NHS England and NHS Improvement
Graduate UX Consultant Joshua Avern shares his advice and insight garnered through a recent project for NHS England and NHS Improvement.
Joshua Avern
Tuesday, June 9, 2020Preparing your digital experience for an eventual return to scale
Our Founder and CEO Simon Norris and UX Consultant Alex Metcalf explore UX considerations that will help your organisation return to scale and emerge strongly from this challenging time.
Simon Norris
Monday, June 1, 2020How nudging in the COVID-19 crisis is driving better decision making
Our Group Account Director, George Moriarty, explores how behavioural economics have been used in the coronavirus crisis. She asks: how does it work and has it helped us make better choices?
George Moriarty
Thursday, May 21, 2020The importance of microcopy
Lauren Ellis, copywriter at Nomensa, outlines microcopy and explains why your business needs to start sweating the small stuff.
Lauren Ellis