Positional writing on UX practice — audits, accessibility, AI in design, research and the workflows senior teams actually use. One-person publication written by Jamie Pow, updated when there's something worth saying rather than on a calendar.
The blog covers UX work that doesn't fit into the glossary or the audit hub — arguments about method, honest positional takes on where the industry is going, and worked examples that need more room than a reference entry allows.
Every post follows the same editorial standard as the rest of the site: written by hand, sourced against primary references, dated, and corrected within a week when readers spot a mistake. Nothing is AI-generated. Opinions are marked as opinions; framework claims are cited by source.
Recurring topics: UX audit practice (scope, deliverables, presentation), accessibility (WCAG interpretation, the criteria that actually fail in real audits), research methodology (personas, interviews, synthesis), and the AI transition (where AI genuinely helps in UX work, where it produces false confidence). For scope and cost questions, the FAQ collection is typically the faster route than the long-form posts.
Most UX audits are theatre — sixty-page PDFs that get filed and never actioned. A proper audit is short, prioritised, and tied to outcomes. The field guide: brief, frameworks, the five lenses, and what makes a deliverable people actually use. Free checklist included.
Nine new success criteria, two consolidations, and one dragging fight over what counts as a "minimum target size". A practical walk-through of what's new in WCAG 2.2, what it changes for design files, and what to test against.
Demographics-as-personality. Aspirational rather than observed. One persona to rule them all. The five recurring failure modes in stakeholder-generated personas — and how to avoid each one without becoming insufferable about it.
Most contrast failures aren't your body text on your background. They're hover states, placeholder-as-label, text on photography, and disabled buttons. A field guide to the contrast cases that actually fail in real accessibility audits — with the WCAG citations.