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Boundary setting for beginners
And approaching other difficult conversations What to expect in this post: 1) Why boundary setting is important to me 2) What helped me...
Ella Botting
Mar 25, 20206 min read


Navigating mental health in the workplace | Part 2 Rob
A career in consulting My name is Rob Graham. I’m a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, where I work on designing organisations that are going...
Ella Botting
Oct 27, 20194 min read


Navigating Mental Health in the Workplace | Part 1 Thomas
My name is Thomas Coleman. I’m a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, where I work on technology and software engineering projects in the Public S
Thomas Coleman
Oct 10, 20196 min read


A Guide To Effective Networking
Lessons learned from attending the WebSummit for the past 4 years.
Chiedza Calpurnia Ishemunyoro
Oct 1, 20196 min read


Blood Poisoning: Has Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos scandal created a toxic environment for female found
At the London Startup Bookclub we recently read, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
Chiedza Calpurnia Ishemunyoro
Sep 15, 20193 min read


Why Cloud just works!
Techies today don't know they're born. It is personally hard for me to imagine life without cloud services, but that is because I am a...
Chiedza Calpurnia Ishemunyoro
Aug 19, 20196 min read


Workplace Gaslighting
It’s well known that as women climb the career ladder they become less liked, whereas the inverse is normally true for men.
Ella Botting
Aug 18, 20197 min read


How to be a more accessible user of the internet
I'm fortunate enough to work in an organisation that posits accessibility first, or tries to anyway. And as I am dyslexic, I thought I'd...
Ella Botting
Jun 16, 20192 min read


Moving into London | UX community
When I moved down to London from Leeds I was gutted to be leaving the community and network I had built up behind. Yes, we have Twitter...
Ella Botting
Sep 25, 20186 min read


Part 2/2 | How did you chose user research?
Short story: I wanted a role where I could apply the things I learnt at university, which by and large were research skills, with...
Ella Botting
Sep 10, 20184 min read


Part 1/2 | What is user research?
Hello lovely people I've been working as a user researcher for nearly a year now, and alongside my work I manage this blog and talk a lot...
Ella Botting
Aug 7, 20185 min read


You’ve landed your first UX job… now what?!
After months and months of searching high and low, travelling up and down the country (across the world?) perfecting your CV, cover...
Ella Botting
May 8, 20185 min read


How to get a job in tech/ digital (...or what worked for me)
**Update: I've now been in my job for nearly a year so I thought it about time I make a couple of changes to this post. Upon reflection,...
Ella Botting
Dec 1, 20176 min read
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