Writing
Notes from moving across from UX into learning design, and more recently from building things with AI. Mostly written while working something out, rather than after.
Building with AI
An ongoing thread on what the tools actually do well, and what still needs a person.
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13 July 2026
The app was the easy part
I built a relocation guide with Claude Code in an afternoon, then nearly shipped a confident, plausible, wrong sentence about Medicare. The interface was the easy part.
Building a feedback course
A four-part series, written while designing my first learning module.
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5 September 2025
Mapping behaviour, not screens: applying UX to course design
Action mapping turned out to be a journey map for learning. How working backwards from behaviour changed what went into the course — and what came out of it.
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28 August 2025
Turns out ‘Understand feedback’ isn’t a real learning objective
In UX we start with the user's goals. Writing learning objectives is no different once you get past the jargon — how Bloom's taxonomy, SBI and COIN shaped mine.
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11 August 2025
From fuzzy idea to learning focus: the first step in my course design
Skipping the long, expensive qualification and learning by doing instead — deciding to build a mini-course on constructive feedback, and working out what it should be about.
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6 August 2025
Learning Design (with a UX brain)
Learning design keeps overlapping with UX — user journeys, making complexity digestible, thinking about how people think. Notes from starting to explore it properly.
