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The Top 10 toxic tropes of 2020

Despite 2021 not being much better so far, 2020 is already regarded by many as one of the worst years in modern times. And in hindsight —…

12 min readJan 7, 2021

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Dave Griffiths

The Devil’s UX Dictionary: Doomscrolling

If the events of 2020 and early 2021 can be likened to using an unsterilised lance to prick the boils on humanity’s arse, doomscrolling…

2 min readJan 16, 2021

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A man in a dark room with nine electronic tablets on a black desk in front of him

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Dave Griffiths

The Politics of the Split Brain: How Buddhism and Neuroscience can explain what divides us

My inspiration for writing this story came while reading neuroscience professor Chris Niebauer’s No Self, No Problem, which I purchased…

6 min readJan 10, 2021

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The Politics of the Split Brain: How Buddhism and Neuroscience can explain what divides us

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The devil’s UX dictionary: confirmshaming

Also known as a negative opt-out, Confirmshaming is a passive-aggressive marketing technique that tells you you’re an inferior life form…

3 min readJan 3, 2021

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Illustration of a woman looking ashamed with fingers of blame pointing at her from several angles

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Dave Griffiths

The Devil’s UX Dictionary: Bait and Switch

In Retail

5 min readDec 27, 2020

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A cartoon fish being baited with a $100 dangling from a hook

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Dave Griffiths

The Devil’s UX Dictionary: A

Addictiveness

6 min readDec 20, 2020

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Dave Griffiths

The Devil’s UX Dictionary: An A-Z of Unethically Exasperating Design

Have you ever been annoyed by the number of times you’ve had to click ‘Cancel’ to banish an unwanted subscription then discovered, much to…

2 min readDec 20, 2020

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The Devil’s UX Dictionary: An A-Z of Unethically Exasperating Design

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Beyond Gamification: How Language Learning Apps Can Truly Deliver

With Duolingo dominating the marketplace with over 300 million users and with a swelling throng of apps inspired by it gathering pace…

6 min readDec 10, 2020

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A young girl looking pensively at a chalkboard with various foreign translations of the word ‘hello’ written on it

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Dave Griffiths

How Jump’s design made lockdown exercise a little easier

After facing the inevitable closure of my local Underground station in the wake of London’s lockdown response to the coronavirus pandemic…

3 min readApr 26, 2020

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How Jump’s design made lockdown exercise a little easier

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Dave Griffiths

Dave Griffiths

UX Designer, writer and occasional photographer & music transcriber. Also a huge fan of dogs, satire, non-dualism, mythology and nature

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