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Writing on UX practice, accessibility, design systems, and how to run UX work like a discipline rather than a series of one-offs.

How to run a proper UX audit in 2026

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.

WCAG 2.2: the changes designers actually need to know

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.

The five persona mistakes I see most often

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.

Colour contrast: the cases that fail real audits

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.

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