Matt Stow
Senior UX Engineer at Thinkmill. Designs (digital, craft, board games). Writes (code, fiction, reviews). Loves a11y, design systems, alt rock, & Nintendo.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- Accessibility,
- Design Systems,
- React,
- GraphQL
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Accessibility at Thinkmill
How we approach the multi-faceted world of accessible design, and how improvements made for one user group can benefit all of us.
· 4 min readarticle
The $64,000 question to create more accessible and inclusive experiences
Empathising with your blind users to create better experiences for all.
· 8 min readarticle
Building layouts with placeholder components
An approach to rapidly building and evolving layouts as a project progresses and becomes more defined.
· 2 min read
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Designing beyond the median user
For seventy years software has shipped one shape to every user. The confluence of design systems, headless platforms, and agent-native exposure has coalesced to make that constraint optional. A retrospective of the median-user problem and the new architectural horizon now opening.
· 10 min readWhat engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost
AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...
· 4 min readA behavioural framework for the monsters in your team
The AI in Design 2026 report captures a profession mid-mutation. The "Frankenjob" label the coverage put on it misses the seam where the real work happens.
· 5 min read
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