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Selected posts from 2014–present

Magical Meetings - A Review

This post relates to my personal challenge of thinking about what makes an online space inclusive. I decided that UX Brighton’s monthly Show and Tell events are a good way to set …

Reblog - What makes an online space inclusive?

Originally posted on the eLearning Team Blog on 05/07/21 as part of my role at University of Brighton. A crowdsourced blog post and reflection Back on the 15th of June I …

Vlog 3 [1/2]: Adventures in ViewX - Double Diamond for Watch Parties

Reflecting on designing a watch party for UX Brighton Watch the UX Brighton watch party for yourself using this playlist on YouTube (took place on 13th April 2021) Look at the …

Vlog 1: introducing a personal challenge

What does an inclusive and successful online event look like? Setting a personal challenge \[The short version rather than the 4min vlog\] I work as a Learning Technologist, which …

COVID-19 three months in: what have we learned?

Background This post is a personal reflection in response to a question posed by Tom Langston on Twitter as a retweet of Dr Andy Clegg. Observing that other individuals tagged in …

A technical perspective on a telepresence robot

From January until May 2019 the eLearning team evaluated the AV1 robot avatar, a telepresence robot manufactured by the company No Isolation, based in Norway. This post aims to …

UX Camp Brighton 2018: Jobs-To-Be-Done-(R) #uxcb18

Why am I here (as in you, at this blog, and reading this now)? I hope you are here because you would like an introduction to using RStudio for data visualisation. I also hope that …

Hone Smart Home

At the end of my last entry I outlined my discovery that there was an app building company called Bubble, which would likely lead to brand confusion. As a result I decided to go …

Naming - initial ideas

On this page of my sketchbook I used a dice rolling exercise (Barnard & Briscoe, 2016) to explore different name combinations for the potential company. Initially I gravitated …

Welcome to my new IDM22 Journal

Greetings! I have decided that I would like to keep up my reflective writing activities during IDM22. This is due to my recent experience on the web development module and also …