Long-form, mostly
Journal
Ramblings, rants, and the occasional moment of clarity on design tokens, accessibility, components, and design system governance.
2026
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Journal · Accessibility
You've Made a Start. Then What?
What happens after the audit, and why it has to be somebody's job.
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Journal · Accessibility
What Good Actually Looks Like
Three pieces on how accessibility fails, one on what progress looks like, and why even that isn't the full story.
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Journal · Accessibility
The Organisation That Never Prioritised It
Engineering fails. Design fails. But both of those failures have a common source: organisations that never valued accessibility in the first place.
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Journal · Accessibility
The Design Brief That Never Mentioned Disabled People
Accessibility gets engineered out. But before that, it gets designed out, by people with the authority to make that call and no accountability for the consequences.
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Journal · Accessibility
The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.
Audits get run, boxes get ticked, statements go in footers, and most teams move on. Nine months after the EAA deadline, not much has changed.
2025
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Journal · Personal
2025: That's a Wrap
A year that ground rather than broke. On flat pay, long commutes, and the things that kept me intact.
2024
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Journal · Personal
2024: That's a Wrap
After the year that 2023 was, 2024 felt like breathing out. A new role, proper design systems work, and the occasional crisis of confidence.
2023
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Journal · Personal
Thank Fuck '23 is Nearly Over
Redundancy, mental health, job hunting hell, and finally landing somewhere good. 2023 in review.
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Journal · Personal
Post-Redundancy Thoughts
Notes captured during a six-month redundancy job hunt: on the broken interview processes, the ghosting, and what I learnt about modern tech hiring.
2022
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Journal · Personal
It's Good to Talk
An honest post about burnout, an eating disorder diagnosis, and why taking that first step is always worth it.
2016
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Journal · Personal
Dealing with Rejection
Twice rejected in four weeks. Here's how I dealt with it, and what I learnt from staying with it instead of legging it.
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Journal · Personal
What a Year
2015 brought fatherhood, a change of jobs, and more change than I could have imagined.