When UI Masquerades as UX: The Politics of Performative Reform
Polished announcements can make a broken system look coherent, but that doesn’t mean it works. When the interface of reform shines brighter than the experience of delivering it, the gap between promise and process becomes impossible to ignore.
It Works on My Machine: When Passion Becomes Possession
When passion narrows into possession, collaboration starts to feel like interference. This is how good intentions harden into certainty — and how certainty isolates us from the very systems we’re trying to improve.
When Rhetoric Replaces Reality: Safety Without Truth
When systems lose linguistic integrity, they lose the ability to adapt. This essay explores how Britain’s comforting class vocabulary sustains fragility — and how a new, truth-based taxonomy could turn language back into infrastructure for change.
Safe-to-Fail Systems: Resilience by Design
Safe-to-fail systems embrace the inevitability of failure by designing for controlled degradation, resilience, and recovery — creating structures that adapt, learn, and protect from collapse.
Inclusive Design Principles: Designing for Difference
Inclusive design creates products and services usable by the widest range of people by recognising exclusion, learning from diversity, and designing solutions that benefit everyone.
The Measurement Cluster: weaponised metrics
When progress becomes performance theatre, productivity collapses under its own applause. This piece examines how linguistic inflation and measurement overload fracture focus — and how clarity restores traction.
The Cost of Complexity: Why Systems Fail When Language Does
When systems start performing instead of explaining, users lose faith. Strategic simplification isn’t cosmetic — it’s the architecture that makes progress visible.
Conceptual Model Theory: Mapping Systems of Thought
A conceptual model visualises how key elements within a system interact. It turns abstract theory into a practical framework for research, analysis, or design, clarifying structure and guiding inquiry.
Attention Restoration Theory: Reclaiming focus through nature
Exposure to natural environments restores cognitive focus depleted by overstimulation. Nature enables effortless attention, replenishing mental capacity and improving overall wellbeing.
Dopamine Detox Research: Understanding Motivation
Scientific evidence shows dopamine cannot be “detoxed.” The brain continuously produces it, but reducing overstimulation through moderated habits improves focus and impulse control.