Writing helps me untangle my thoughts. I write about accessibility, design systems, and user experience.
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It's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and connections.
Before we rush to optimise our docs for AI, we need to get the foundations right.
Companies are investing heavily in AI. This feels like our chance to quietly make documentation better for everyone.
Writing documentation for AI retrieval improves accessibility for humans too.
Screen readers don’t always announce what’s visually on screen. This article explores that gap - through the medium of burritos. Published on the HTML Hell Advent Calendar.
Here's a process for documenting accessibility requirements when you build design system components - what to annotate, how to create reusable specifications, and why machine-readable formats unlock greater value than sticky notes. Published on the zeroheight blog.
I wrote a prompt to help me write accessibility specs for components. Then had an existential crisis.
I've just completed an app audit for an iOS accessibility nutrition label. Here's what I learned.
Sometimes the universe puts wise people in your path to point out the obvious. Like maybe start with a blog before committing to 50,000 words.
Confused about the European Accessibility Act (EAA)? Not sure whether it applies to your design system or if you’ve missed an important deadline? Here's a post I wrote for the zeroheight blog.
Insights from user testing our Just Eat iOS app with a blind customer - on the Just Eat Medium Tech blog.
Reflections on dyscalculia and practical ways to make numbers more accessible.
A practical, jargon-free guide to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
How we set up the core styles and tokens for BPP’s education-focused design system.
Guest blog for SuperNova on how to prioritise accessibility when building design system components.
A practical guide with examples and resources to help you write an accessibility statement.
I did a talk at WDC exploring WCAG 3.0, Web3, and the future of inclusive design.
Designing accessible components and scaling their impact through a design system.
Reflections from 3.5 years building Lloyds Banking Group’s multi-brand design system.
How we translated a new visual identity into accessible, flexible UI components for Halifax.
How we created and scaled Lloyds Banking Group’s multi-brand design system from the ground up.
What I learned running design thinking workshops with teenagers in a London secondary school.
An intro post for the Design Club Medium blog, sharing a bit about me and why I got involved