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Opinion piece

A collection of opinion based articles reflecting the personal opinions on a topic by James Royal-Lawson.
Making your design suck less with bridging roles
Opinion piece

Making your design suck less with bridging roles

The rise and fall of web design, and how fostering broader skill sets and adopting bridging roles can set things right.
Sep 7, 2024 12 min read
The UX divide
Opinion piece

The UX divide

Various drafts of this post have been with me for years. The title has evolved over time as my “answers” to the problem have swung back and forth. The problem itself has undergone several incarnations as I’ve learnt new things and my experiences challenged its definition. But one thing
Sep 8, 2015 6 min read
Opinion piece

That big sliding banner? Yeah, it's rubbish

You know that big automatic rotating banner you ordered for your start page? Yeah, that’s right. It’s rubbish. * * * * * * It’s the biggest and most important bit of real-estate on your start-page. everyone is fighting for a bit of it. So what do we do? We add a giant
Sep 6, 2012 5 min read
Opinion piece

No more writing for the web?

Below is a transcript of an exchange between myself and Per Axbom on the Beantin Facebook page earlier this week. The conversation is in response to this blog post: Why it might be time to stop writing for the web by Tamsin Hemingray at iCrosing. Interesting post, and I agree
Sep 21, 2010 2 min read
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