Last week, I wrote about my experience when my eyes suddenly decided that they didn’t want to work so well anymore. I also touched on some of the challenges I regularly face in social settings. This week I’ll discuss 6 common low-vision accessibility issues that I experience regularly on my…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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. …

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. …

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

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…