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.
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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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· 4 min readInclusive user testing with browser-based prototypes
Last year, we partnered with the Queensland Government and Meld Studios to design a website that helps people find tools and information to improve their digital literacy. This was a great chance to apply our inclusive design skills and build a site that’s usable and accessible to as many people as possible.
· 4 min read
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