Darcey Beau

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 happened My Unsplash statsI started to use Unsplash around December

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 1586

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)

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 being ‘disruptive players’within their dedicated industry. Ultimately, in order to

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,

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 just computer interfaces, but physical interfaces such as door handles, washing

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

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