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Christina Connelly

Christina Connelly

Nurturing Team Growth: A Journey from 1 to 23 in 2 Years

For decades, the dream of creating a UX department from the ground up had been a persistent want in my mind. Armed with prior experience…

Aug 10, 2023

Nurturing Team Growth: A Journey from 1 to 23 in 2 Years

Aug 10, 2023

Christina Connelly

How solving riddles helps me keep a growth mindset.

I absolutely adore riddles and puzzles, it's no surprise really that I got into UX Design, since it's the same thing : problem solving.

Feb 16, 2023

Illustration of a person with a think bubble above their head. Inside the think bubble is 3 light bulbs that symbolise ideas or problem solving. The person is adding the third bulb to the thinking box to symbolise that they have solved something.

Feb 16, 2023

Christina Connelly

UX is not a department

UX has been a buzz word for many years now, which has lead to UX departments being created with UX designers, researchers, writers and many…

Sep 15, 2022

UX is not a department

Sep 15, 2022

Christina Connelly

Think nude!

OK so I don’t actually mean get naked and have a good old ponder session to yourself. But have a think about the colour nude… what colour…

Oct 20, 2021

Think nude!

Oct 20, 2021

Christina Connelly

Stop making me shop in the men’s department!

From a very young age I knew I was different. I was fat, I had ginger hair and I just didn’t fit in the way other kids did at school.

Oct 7, 2021

Stop making me shop in the men’s department!

Oct 7, 2021

Christina Connelly

How a drunken evening of drawing helped me become a published illustrator, and helped raise…

Feb 14, 2021

How a drunken evening of drawing helped me become a published illustrator, and helped raise…

Feb 14, 2021

Christina Connelly
in
HoneyBadgerHQ

3 reasons I hate the term UX

In 1993 Don Norman coined the term “user experience” but in principle, it goes further back than the 90s. How far back? Simple, since the…

Jul 28, 2020

Funny photo of cat looking confused

Jul 28, 2020

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HoneyBadgerHQ

STOP saying that UX is “Digital Only

It’s a common thing that I keep seeing people do, especially on Instagram. I’m starting to feel like the Experience Police, constantly…

Jun 20, 2020

STOP saying that UX is “Digital Only

Jun 20, 2020

Christina Connelly
in
HoneyBadgerHQ

Skin Cancer: A shit UX

Cancer. Urgh. What a shit word. Its a word that makes people uncomfortable, and yet it happens every day to so many people. I’ve lost most…

Jan 21, 2020

Skin Cancer: A shit UX

Jan 21, 2020

Christina Connelly

Designers united!

I applied for a Creative Director role a couple of years ago to a company in Manchester that is quite well known in the industry (I won’t…

Jan 9, 2020

Designers united!

Jan 9, 2020

Christina Connelly

Christina Connelly

Head of UX at interactive investor. Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer @HoneyBadgerHQ. Design Thinker. UX Mentor. Public Speaker. Lego addict. Crazy cat lady

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