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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·12 min readYour agent believes that docs folder
The agent trusted a committed docs folder of generated artefacts over my instructions. I deleted the lot and lost nothing.
·8 min readAre your AI agents making progress or producing work?
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