Ronald Aveling
Designer with a soft spot for systems and structured content. Knows the difference between tofu and tempeh. Makes a damn good brunch.
Specialties
- Product Design & Engineering,
- Training & Mentorship,
- UX & UI Design,
- Content Management Systems,
- Figma
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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.
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A 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.
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Activity Mapping
Activity mapping is a way to dynamically capture, and work on, product requirements in a format that’s more useful than a static document.
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DACI
Created by Atlassian – DACI is a framework that helps delivery teams make effective and efficient group decisions.
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Sparring
Sparring is a way to get prompt and candid feedback on your work from others in your team. Use it to battle test your ideas by exposing them to differing points of view, and/or get clarity on gaps you can’t fill on your own.
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Shared understanding: why it’s important and how to fast-track it in your project
Tips and tricks to get your team’s collective intelligence buzzing in product development.
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Is Your Design System Ready for AI?
AI can generate convincing interfaces, but it struggles when a design system’s decisions live in team knowledge rather than its components, documentation and defaults. Preparing a design system for AI means making those decisions discoverable, explicit and verifiable.
·6 min readBuild vs buy: AI code review for teams that have opinions
There’s a good chance that somewhere in your org, someone is trialling an AI code review tool right now, and at the same time someone else is pasting agent output into PRs under their own name.
·6 min readOptimise Your Context, Not Your Prompts
AI makes better engineering decisions when it can understand a project’s architecture, conventions and shared knowledge. Making that context clear and discoverable helps it produce software that fits the wider system.
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