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Today I woke up and thought it was a day for clickbait headings…However, despite the heading, I believe most research doesn’t think about the full picture. We look at research as a skirmish and not as ongoing effort. By looking at exactly the same research again over a longer period of time we get to […]

I use the cart of website as a wishlist until I decide I want to buy something. This is a fairly widespread practise and something that came up in user interviews and usability testing for an apparel website I was working on. I also noticed that people came back and browsed and looked at new […]

Not just yet as these images of me and Jeff Bezos on our summer vacation show….I uploaded pictures of me and Jeff to Discord to use as a reference to create more images, and although there are slight similarities I would say the resemblances are pretty poor (and I’d like to know if the training […]

I apologise for doing the “consultant trick” of showing a percentage increase (it went from a base of $100MM to $600MM). Despite these numbers I don’t see (m)any cool AI applications out in the wild. There are some areas of people doing prototypes and testing things (Amazon is doing some interesting stuff), but real category […]

I just want to post this sad image of this lady who had to pretend to be an Oompa Loompa and give kids 3 jellybeans each for £35.There is also an interesting lesson about AI expectation vs reality that I think we’ll continue to learn over the next few years…

Online share of US grocery spending is at around 10% mark (down from a pandemic peak of about 13%, but up from pre-pandemic 5%). My research into grocery shoppers has shown that customers are:– unsure of whether packers will pick the products as scrupulously as they would (expiry dates and quality)– not sure about when […]

I was reading an article about how the best combination in chess these days in human + AI (AKA a centaur). This combination beats both straight up human and just AI at chess. Extending this metaphor I want to be a centaur in my life; both personal and professional. What I want to do is […]

For those that don’t speak Toki Pona, this means “communicate is tough”. I’ve been interested for a long time by how to communicate easily. I tried (unsuccessfully) to join the Dublin Esperanto society in 2001 (for those not in the know Esperanto was a made up language created in 1887 to be the second language […]

If you’re a Chrome user and consistently have a bunch of tabs open may I suggest you spend 5 mins learning these four shortcuts: – CMD+Shift+A: Access tab directory– CMD+Option+⬅️➡️: Hop between tabs– CMD+T: New tab– CMD+L: Jump to URL bar I recently learned them and it has made me able to open and interact […]

What if the key to e-commerce success is hidden in plain sight on the homepages and product pages of the leading online retailers? Your intrepid reporter (me :)) dug into the fastest-growing websites, as outlined by Similarweb, to pan for some insight gold. Homepage Value strips I thought the USP strip was dead, but I […]