In exactly six weeks time, UX London is happening!

I am ridiculously excited about this year’s line-up—I can’t wait to see the talks and get hands-on in the workshops.

If you haven’t yet got your ticket, now is the time. There’s a flash sale this week: use the discount code FLASH20 to get a whopping 20% of any ticket. Do it before the end of Friday!

Whether you’re coming for all three days or choosing one focused day, you’re in for a treat.

• Day one on Tuesday, 10 June is discovery day.
• Day two on Wednesday, 11 June is design day.
• Day three on Thursday, 12 June is deliver day.

Head on over to the website to get all the details and then get your discounted ticket.

See you there!

Monday session

Dining al fresco (with Coco the cat for company).

I should be using the lh and rlh units more enough—they’re supported across the board!

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The foreword to the O’Reilly book on creating inclusive experiences.

Feels like an emerging trend:

Instead of that deep immersion where I’d craft each function, I’m now more like a curator? I describe what I want, evaluate what the AI gives me, tweak the prompts, and iterate. It’s efficient, yes. Revolutionary, even. But something essential feels missing — that state of flow where time vanishes and you’re completely absorbed in creation. If this becomes the dominant workflow across teams, do we risk an industry full of highly productive yet strangely detached developers?

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Enjoyed the album launch gig by Patients tonight!

https://patientstheband.bandcamp.com/album/post-high-lows-2

Reading Salt Slow by Julia Armfield.

Thursday session

Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok—which is basically TV with infinite channels. You don’t control anything except the channel switch. It’s like Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution where unrelated crustaceans all evolve into something vaguely crab-shaped.

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So much slopaganda on LinkedIn.

I’m obviously biased, but I like the sound of what Chris is doing to create a library of HTML web components.

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Let’s go back to a website!

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In which I answer questions about blogging.

I’ve put a copy of this on my own site too.

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An interview about my blog, originally published on the website People and Blogs in April 2025.

Marvel: Avengers Endgame is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Hold my beer. Literally.

Reading Bloodchild And Other Stories by Octavia Butler.

Matcha latte in a Jazz Kissa.

Signed!

We, the undersigned, call on the record labels and members of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—including UMG, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI Recorded Music Assets, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music—to drop your lawsuit against the Internet Archive.

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Signed!

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Thursday session

Matt’s beach thoughts are like a satisfying susurrus in my RSS reader.

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It’s an annoying cognitive task: detecting weird photo artifacts, bizarre movement in videos, impossible animals and body horror, and reading through reams of anodyne text to determine if the person who prompted the synthetic media machine cared enough to dedicate time and energy to the task of communicating to their audience.

I hate that this is the bleak future which venture capitalists and AI boosters have gleefully laid out for us, that they consider this to be a “democratizing” technology in any real sense of the word. Far from strengthening democracy, these are technologies more apt at propping up scam capitalism and multi-level marketing schemes. I would like my time and mental space back.

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This is clever: putting CSS inside a noscript element to hide anything that requires JavaScript.

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Wednesday session

Trans women are women.

I was at the State Of The Browser event recently, which was great as always. Manu gave a great talk about colour in CSS. A lot of it focused on OKLCH. I was already convinced of the benefits of this colour space after seeing a terrific talk by Anton Lovchikov a while back. ...

Here’s a fun account of the early days of the ARPANET.

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You won’t be able to unsee this. It’s like the FedEx logo …if the arrow was an anus.

1. Circular shape (often with a gradient)
2. Central opening or focal point
3. Radiating elements from the center
4. Soft, organic curves

Sound familiar? It should, because it’s also an apt description of… well, you know.

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Monday session