I was talking to a close friend recently, someone who I think is a very good writer, who helps edit my excessive use of commas in sentences (he didn’t have time for this post), when he said he’s started to think of writing like exercise. A process that feels arduous…

For our third post in our meet-the-team series, I’m veeeerry excited to introduce Hamish Williams, who I worked with at a previous startup in Sydney a few years ago. As a Senior Product Designer & Front End Engineer, Hamish is able to prototype and explore novel interactive concepts at speed…

Well everyone, I’ve finally done it. I’ve cemented Shortcuts in my life, and I’m happy to say I’m well on my way to automated bliss. I’ve attempted to find this bliss a few times — with IFTTT, with the previously named Workflow, with the rarely working smart bulbs — but…

Last month we were getting ready for a new feature to be launched for our enterprise customers. It’s a significant change, and just before getting a final walkthrough from one of the engineers, we were eagerly prepping the red carpet. Halfway through the demo though, we saw something that spooked…

Our first step towards a shared product language — I feel like we’re in quite a privileged situation at Qwilr. We’re an experience led product company, driven by principles that we actually live by. Not faded slogans on the wall, or memos circulated by a distant CEO, but something everyone working on the product has direct and shared accountability…

To help frame this post, I want to begin by sharing a snippet from Qwilr’s driving Principles, written by our Founder & CEO, Dylan: We succeed not by taking hack shortcuts, not by social engineering or political machination, or short-term hot-air strategies, but by working resolutely and systemically to become…

At it’s core, Qwilr is a communication design tool. Whilst we began as a way for people to create proposals as beautiful web pages, it’s grown to be used for case studies, landing pages, online brochures and much more. All things that rely on great imagery to be persuasive. …

The burden of never completed reading lists, and the products that enable them. — Before writing this I had 412 items in my Pocket list. A tiny handful of them I’d actually read. A few just misplaced bookmarks. The remaining? Literally hours and hours worth of neglected reading material. I signed up for Pocket late in 2012, soon after it changed from Read it…

In my first year studying Industrial Design at University, we were given a cautionary tale about the cost of not understanding who we were designing for. Meet the “biggest disaster in innovation”, the Sinclair C5: In 1988, the Sinclair C5 went from drawing board to prototype without any market research…