Darcey — Blog Posts

JOURNAL I lost my job to AI.—What’s next? I didn’t really lose my job. I just stopped being needed.Not me personally - the tasks. The ones I used to do every week as a product designer: polish UI in Figma,… 15 SEP 2025 · 8 MIN READ JOURNAL Why I've Chosen to Permanently Leave the UK There’s a quiet but growing trend: young, ambitious people leaving the UK. Some head to places like Dubai. Not for me, but I get it. Dubai is everything the UK isn’t—sunny, low… 30 OCT 2024 · 3 MIN READ TRAVEL True North: Living life on your own terms It appears common for people in their late twenties and early thirties to come to the realisation that they've waited too long to chase after their dreamsThey often feel stuck, caught between… 02 JUL 2023 · 4 MIN READ REMOTE WORK The Nomad Parlay: My 6 stage playbook to travel forever I’ve been travelling the world indefinitely since 2016I always get asked:"When will you stop? What are your plans? Where are you going next?"The truth is, these are the types of questions I’ve… 01 FEB 2023 · 5 MIN READ TRAVEL A story of implementation: How I changed the weather "Having the freedom to decide how you spend your time on this planet is the most valuable asset you’ll ever have" 08 AUG 2022 · 1 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE Why I’m betting big on Web 3.0 Web 3.0 ≡ version 3 of the internet.The simplest way to identify the difference between Web 1. 2. 3 is:ReadRead / WriteRead / Write / OwnLike many people who first dabble into… 09 MAY 2022 · 5 MIN READ JOURNAL Hard choices, easy life "Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." - Jerzy Gregorek 13 JUL 2021 · 2 MIN READ JOURNAL One of the highest returns on intellectual capital When you spend time on the bridge of a ship with a large compass in front, you can easily develop the impression that the compass is directing the ship rather than merely… 10 FEB 2021 · 2 MIN READ REMOTE WORK Which jobs won’t be remote in the future? I came across this video of an excavator operator in Germany digging in Korea. This lead me to think, with the advent of new tech and 5G - what jobs won’t become… 23 OCT 2019 · 2 MIN READ PHOTOGRAPHY 4 things I learnt from 5 days of vlogging Possibly one of the hardest parts about vlogging is accepting you look like a fool and risking the fact you may look like an idiot. Once you’ve accepted that without caring about it too much, the rest is relatively straight forward. 10 AUG 2019 · 2 MIN READ JOURNAL 7 things I deliberately avoid Inversion is rarely considered an accomplishment.It’s much easier to sell: “look at what I did for you.” Rather than: “look what I avoided for you.”Inversion has been a strategy I’ve employed throughout… 08 AUG 2019 · 1 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE Day 5: Transitions Based on the prototypes we came up with on Day 4, we can really start to create a realistic-looking flow from the splash screen all the way to some specific data points… 03 AUG 2019 · 1 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE Day 4: Prototyping Today we start to visualise all of the work we've done so far. Using the sketches, user flow and data points as a reference to achieve the goal we set out to… 21 JUL 2019 · 1 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE Day 3: Wireframing We've got a lot done already. The foundation of the app in terms of data points and user flows are fine for now. We can use these to start piecing together some… 19 JUL 2019 · 1 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE Day 2: User flows Now we've kicked off this project with the initial ideation phase, it's time to get a rough outline of a high-level user flow. This will give us a loose framework to start… 18 JUL 2019 · 1 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE I'm designing an app in 5 days I'm an advocate for doing stuff instead of talking about stuff. I always have been and always will be. Which is the main reason I hate meetings and is the sole reason… 17 JUL 2019 · 1 MIN READ TRAVEL How my photo’s got 2.5 million views Today I surpassed 2.5million views, 27,000 downloads and almost 300 likes on Unsplash. This post outlines how this happenedMy Unsplash statsI started to use Unsplash around December 2018. For those who have… 24 JUN 2019 · 2 MIN READ TRAVEL The efflorescence of nomadic entrepreneurs The 24th December 2018 marked my first expedition to Chiang Mai, Thailand. 432 years after Ralph Fitch, the first recorded Englishman to step foot into Chiang Mai back in 1586For those unfamiliar… 20 JUN 2019 · 3 MIN READ TRAVEL 6 things I’ve learnt from 2 years of travel Almost 2 years have passed since I commenced my Digital Nomadic adventure. During this time, me and my terrible sense of direction somehow managed to navigate to over 30 countries, spending a… 16 JUN 2019 · 4 MIN READ TRAVEL A numinous adventure into a digital nomadic lifestyle In short; Digital nomads are people who use telecommunication technologies to earn a living, and more generally, conduct their life in a nomadic manner.From my recent (and frankly, fragmental) experience, I would… 16 JUN 2019 · 4 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE Incremental changes to a mediocre product, will end in its demise Product design is becoming more of an intensely fierce and competitive production. We’re living in a world today where there are thousands of small, agile companies with the single focused aim of… 16 JUN 2019 · 2 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE UX Essentials: Fitt’s Law Many people perceive user interface design to be more of an art, opposed to a science. However, Fitt’s law is a mathematical equation which helps quantify the usability of user interfaces. Not… 16 JUN 2019 · 4 MIN READ USER EXPERIENCE The user experience of urban planning Modern metropolisesModern metropolises are often divided into a grid system of single use zones with the perceived benefit of efficiency and functionalism. Apartment blocks, shopping malls, business parks and leisure areas are… 03 JUN 2019 · 5 MIN READ