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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…

3 min readAug 10, 2023

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

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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.

4 min readFeb 16, 2023

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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.

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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…

2 min readSep 15, 2022

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UX is not a department

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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…

2 min readOct 20, 2021

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Think nude!

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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.

4 min readOct 7, 2021

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Stop making me shop in the men’s department!

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Christina Connelly

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

6 min readFeb 14, 2021

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

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Christina Connelly
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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…

4 min readJul 28, 2020

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Funny photo of cat looking confused

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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…

3 min readJun 20, 2020

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STOP saying that UX is “Digital Only

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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…

4 min readJan 21, 2020

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Skin Cancer: A shit UX

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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…

4 min readJan 9, 2020

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Designers united!

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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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