David Hall·Jan 22, 2025Storytelling: Designing the user’s journey with UX story mappingWe are inveterate storytellers, “who create our own identities around a story,” says philosopher Owen Flanagan. It seems appropriate that…
David Hall·Dec 15, 2024The rise of agentic AI: designing for a new eraPattern matching AI is giving way to a new era of agentic AI, powered by reasoning, goal-oriented behaviour and world models.
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·Feb 1, 2023The Vignelli Canon: A design classic from the last of the modernistsMassimo Vignelli, the multi-faceted designer and thinker, was the last of the great modernist designers. A utilitarian, design reactionary…A response icon2A response icon2
David Hall·Aug 31, 2022Chaos, Derrida and pigeons: Things I learnt from Dave SnowdenTo hear Dave Snowden talk is to be treated to an avalanche of fascinating ideas, with many being relevant to the design process.
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·May 23, 2025The Barry Lyndon poster is a design classic, not designed by Saul BassThe Barry Lyndon poster is an iconic masterpiece, and an interesting example of the inaccurate attribution found while I was researching…A response icon1A response icon1
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·Feb 1, 2023Cardew’s Treatise: The greatest musical score ever designedThe ‘Mount Everest’ of graphical musical scores, Treatise still surprises with its invention and beauty.
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·Feb 1, 2023Design detail: Crafting better shadows for interactionShadow doesn’t get as much love such as cool colour palettes or super sexy shapes, but it is vital in communicating interaction.A response icon1A response icon1
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·Apr 28, 2022Pilot error, Chapanis and the shape of things to comeHow Alphonse Chapanis, a young psychologist, saved the lives of WWII pilots through clever design.
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·Feb 1, 2023Design principle: Effective listening through reflective questioningListening is a vital UX skill we can all get better at, and a chatbot experiment from the 1960s teaches us how.
InUX CollectivebyDavid Hall·May 14, 2021Microcopy: An essential guide to becoming a more literate designerDesigners should not be mere decorators, but have an understanding of language and microcopy, a crucial design skill, now more than ever.A response icon4A response icon4
