Writing

A series of articles, ramblings and little stories.

• September resolutions

  August 31, 2019

  I've taken a couple weeks of holidays in Mallorca. I've felt that two and a half weeks is the right amount to disconnect, relax and recharge. And in between spending time with my family and over… →

• Bring blogs back

  Feb 15, 2019

  It's been a long time since I don't do this writing thing. So long that I might have lost any idea on what works best as an intro. It's been so long since I wrote for my blog that I feel my fingers… →

• Norman Doors

  July 17, 2016

  I’m an everyday train commuter. I usually get the Cheltenham 8:25 train to Bristol and sometimes I get a bit early. There’s really not much to do but to stand at the platform quietly waiting while lis… →

• Birds

  July 17, 2016

  The gull sees farthest who flies highest You are too little to know about this quote in "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". But you surely remember when we left Spain two years ago. We moved to the UK,… →

• Jazz

  Jan 16, 2016

  I love music, specially all that has to do with Jazz, rare Funk, or shady Lounge music. And as it happens I'm also a UX designer, so there are high chances that both things will never meet... but… →

• On to new adventures

  August 3, 2015

  I imagine that just by reading the title you get an idea of what I am about to say: I´m changing jobs and today was my last day at Nerv. It has been a great experience and there are many things that … →

• I will miss you, Fireworks

  june 6, 2015

  When it comes to designing interfaces, we all choose “our weapons” and they are all good and legit as long as they get things done. I started designing web… →

• Tente

  april 11, 2015

  When you are a kid, a toy store is the ultimate experience. You examine every toy like an adult would do with an expensive second hand car. You check every box, every aisle and corner because in… →

• The worst website you can get

  march 20, 2015

  Imagine you own a small shoe store in an average city. You love shoes and for 20 years you dedicated all your life to crafting, fixing and selling shoes. Imagine you struggle to pay that employee… →

• Designers and code

  january 17, 2015

  This topic has been treated millions of times. But I just want to drop my two cents in case it helps anyone since I’m a designer and sometimes I code. There are many sides to the words “design” and “code… →

• Spotify, Bluetooth and an old receiver

  january 9, 2015

  I love music and I imagine you too, everyone loves music. I just want to share with you something that made me very happy: Being able to stream Spotify through some good old Speakers. Long ago...… →

• Divide and conquer

  january 4, 2015

  We all have problems, some big or small but it´s normal to panic when dealing with what seems a big list of issues. I´m just going to tell you what I do, and I think it works, to deal with the a… →

• Changes

  november 1, 2014

  When I wrote the last post back in July, I would never have imagined where I would be writing this last one from. Many things have changed, some for the good some for the bad, but all of them are… →

• Data-led or creative design

  july 9, 2014

  The Web ahead podcast is one of my favourites and in #75 Andrew Clarke talked to Jen Simmons about the direction web design has taken and how the “creative” side of web design is being silenced com… →

• Focusing

  may 29, 2014

  I consider myself a Jack of all trades designer, probably because when I started designing things were not as complicated and a web designer just needed to know photoshop and some HTML. So that lead… →

• Hello world, we meet again

  may 22, 2014

  I have decided to start writing. This is something I’ve always wanted to do but never really took seriously— probably because I told myself that I didn’t have time. Indeed, I was right, because I alway… →

• It depends

  February 12, 2013

  For the last months this debate has occupied many posts, news, questions and generated different reactions. Designers ditching skeuomorphism and praising flat design, or arguing whether you should go… →

• Podcasts!

  january 21, 2013

  We are used to having quite a lot of information flying around us every day, articles and tweets filled with new discoveries, techniques and useful links. However there is a resource I never really… →

• The eternal redesign

  january 19, 2013

  Many things are being redesigned in my life over the last few months and the most amazing one is becoming the father of little Bianca. It’s true when they say that you don’t know what it’s like until you b… →