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·Sep 27, 2021

Commitment devices — how they can help you form positive habits

Have you ever heard of ‘Feb Fast’, ‘Dry July’, or ‘Ocsober’? These three alcohol-month puns are charity events where people tell all their friends that they are going to stop drinking alcohol for a whole month, and then solicit for donations to a charity. Why are these fundraising events tied…

Psychology

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Commitment devices — how they can help you form positive habits
Commitment devices — how they can help you form positive habits

Published in Bootcamp

·Sep 20, 2021

6 challenging web accessibility issues I face every day

Last week, I wrote about my experience when my eyes suddenly decided they wanted to break on me. I also briefly touched upon some of the challenges I regularly face in social settings. This week I’d like to talk about 6 common low-vision accessibility issues that I experience time and…

Accessibility

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6 challenging web accessibility issues I face every day
6 challenging web accessibility issues I face every day

Sep 14, 2021

The day my eyes broke

This article was the most difficult that I’ve written. Not because I’m ashamed of my disability, but because I know that everybody faces their own challenges in life, and I didn’t want to sound self-absorbed. Actually, who am I kidding? I guess I am also a bit ashamed. Three years…

Storytelling

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The day my eyes broke
The day my eyes broke

Published in Bootcamp

·Sep 6, 2021

8 visualisation tips for displaying data that people will actually understand

One of the most powerful ways to persuade people to your opinion is by providing them with indisputable facts. The problem is, if you give your audience three pages of tabulated datasets, they are highly unlikely to read them. …

Data

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8 visualisation tips for displaying data that people will actually understand
8 visualisation tips for displaying data that people will actually understand

Aug 30, 2021

I made a TV show about lawn bowls without actually ever playing the game.

I still find it hard to believe I hosted a community television program about lawn bowls, a game I had never played before. Back in 2005 my younger brother agreed to help create a lawn bowls instructional DVD. We knew nothing about lawn bowls, but we’d both done media studies…

Media

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I made a TV show about lawn bowls without actually ever playing the game.
I made a TV show about lawn bowls without actually ever playing the game.

Published in Bootcamp

·Aug 24, 2021

Metric grudge match: Which metrics you should target with AB experiments

I have a riddle for you… How can an experiment fail but still be a success? Easy! The goal of experimentation is to learn. As long as we’ve learnt something then the experiment must have been a success. Nice try. Another reason is that experiments can have multiple goals. While…

Experiment

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Battle Royale — Metric Grudge Match: Which metrics you should target with AB experiments
Battle Royale — Metric Grudge Match: Which metrics you should target with AB experiments

Aug 16, 2021

5 Melbourne modern architectural curiosities straight outta the 90s

It would be difficult to find a Victorian who doesn’t know who Jeff Kennett is. The Liberal party politician was the Premier of Victoria for two terms from 1992 to 1998. …

Architecture

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5 Melbourne modern architectural curiosities straight outta the 90s
5 Melbourne modern architectural curiosities straight outta the 90s

Aug 9, 2021

Get motivated to get stuff done — 3 tips to get you started

It was 9:30 on Friday night. I had just finished a gruelling week of work and study. On that particular Friday I had started work at 7:30am, gone straight from work to class and then finally finished school at 9:30pm. …

Motivation

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Get motivated to get stuff done — 3 tips to get you started
Get motivated to get stuff done — 3 tips to get you started

Published in Bootcamp

·Aug 3, 2021

Looking to influence user behaviour? Set your compass to EAST

Product managers love a good framework and one of my favourites is the ‘EAST’ framework for designing choice architecture. …

Behavioral Economics

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Looking to influence user behaviour? Set your compass to EAST
Looking to influence user behaviour? Set your compass to EAST

Published in Bootcamp

·Jul 26, 2021

Visualizing data with the ‘what, so what, now what’ framework

Have you ever sat through a presentation full of fancy, detailed graphs that did nothing save give you a splitting headache? I’m convinced that many people put complicated data visualisations into their decks just to confuse us. I’m not sure whether it’s their strategy for making us accept their flawed…

Data

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Visualising data with the ‘what, so what, now what’ framework
Visualising data with the ‘what, so what, now what’ framework
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Senior Product Manager @ Carsales

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