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Founder of Catch Design, a Digital Agency in Aotearoa New Zealand. I dont like fruit, or clowns. I hate clowns.

Wellington, NZ
Joined July 2007
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Any website that changes your cursor is a bad design. I will die on this hill.
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Chadwick Boseman was a brilliant actor who had so many memorable performances but for whatever reason this is my favorite youtu.be/hzMzFGgmQOc
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Me describing my prototype
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I am an intensive care doctor. I have never felt as scared as I do now. Please stay home. If New Zealand embraces this challenge we will together save tens of 1000s of lives. If you are in NZ, please RT this & tell everyone you know. #Covid_19nz #COVID19nz
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✩ There are still a lot of you who do this work in the service of people we used to call ‘end-users,’ and who will care about web standards and inclusive, accessible design for as long as you’re here to practice it.” zeldman.com/2019/12/01/blueb…
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Greta Thunberg to world leaders at the U.N. climate summit: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words” mag.time.com/E82qg0J
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replace negative comments about someone else with positive comments about yourself ❌ you look tired ✅ I feel energetic ❌ you seem quiet ✅ I seem loud ❌ you don’t have much to say ✅ I am saying so many things
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Guy who literally wrote the book on using behavioral psychology in tech to manipulate people now selling how not to be manipulated... life comes at you fast, etc.
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Congrats to all the finalists in this years @bestawards. We're incredibly proud to see the @MercuryNZ mobile app nominated in three categories. Well done team! 👋 #energymadewonderful #energyfreedom #bestawards catchdesign.co.nz/mercury-go
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Welcome To Your 30s Starter Pack
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For her 9 month birthday today we received the gift of crawling. While her mum got her the gift of having a safer country to grow up in.
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Beautiful scenes on a beautiful night here for the Wellington Vigil for Christchurch. #wgtnvigil #ChristchurchShootings @WgtnCC @NewshubNZ @NZStuff
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I'll be "saying no to good ideas" Mon the 11th with @RichMironov @pmauckland @xero #prodmgmt. If you're in Auckland, you don't want to miss it! meetup.com/ProductTank-Auckl…
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The Brand Personality Spectrum shows a range of possible tonal positions, from personable & friendly to corporate and professional; from cutting edge to established; from fun to serious; and so on. Useful when crafting site content including microcopy. @halvorson #AEAORL #CS
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re: Writing content "Whatever you're trying to say, say it quickly, concisely, get to the point, and use human language" @halvorson #aeaorl – at Florida, USA
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At #aeaorl, @bradfrost's talk reminds us that tools and systems rarely change underlying behavior. A shiny design system can’t change broken process or toxic culture (at least not on its own).
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I think I’ve fixed the notch issue in landscape 🍾 #iphoneX
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Do we even need to make Italics for our fonts? So far no one is buying them.
39%Yes
12%No
30%Yes (with emphasis)
20%Italics are fake news
255 votes • Final results
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