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Patrick Semple

@patricksemple.bsky.social
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Design leader in 🇬🇧 with Irish roots 🇮🇪 | Obsessed with better products, faster feedback loops, and long runs around Manchester. Semplestudio.com

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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Smashing stuff 😀. Hope you enjoy this. Learning an instrument is brilliant.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is fantastic. It like the McDonalds CEO eating his burger.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What happens when an acoustic engineer stops following guitar-making convention and starts asking why? Offset soundhole. Adjustable mass tuning slot. 13-fret neck join. Every decision justified by physics, not tradition. Brilliant design thinking from Giuliano Nicoletti. youtu.be/7SQ_K8xiu3s
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The Science of The Acoustic Guitar - Iulius Guitars - Luthier Stories
YouTube video by Michael Watts
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Chase Bliss made a mini-doc on how they built Clean, their new compressor pedal. It started as a question: can clean be as fun as dirty? You see them work through it. The dead ends, the pivots, what it actually took. A lovely watch, if you care about how things get made. youtu.be/8BZrJdIQa1w?...
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The Story of Clean
YouTube video by chase bliss
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Messin with some Davy Graham.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Trans Atlantic Sessions last night in Manchester at Factory international. I wanted to see John Doyle play for a while now. Great session.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“Try doing this project without UX. let see what happens?” I say this a bit but follow with: Most businesses compete on experience. Unless they truly compete on price (eg. Ryanair). Its introducing way to much risk to not be designing the experience around the customer or user.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If the bar to building software is as low as it ever is. Will we start to see independent builder create a suit of app around a concept. The same way that musicians create great albums. Using their unique take on what they are solving and how or why. I think this is a really interesting idea. #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My new year resolution is to “build”. Excited to see where the journey end ups. So far I’ve started to looks at apps that help me play guitar better. Tuners, metronome and fretboard visualiser. Love that I can build these things the way that I want them. Very rewarding. #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is about 90% of my day.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Been diving into the motion work on motionlog.xyz such good craft on display. effective transitions, purposeful movement, everything feels designed not moved about. Perfect reference for anyone layering motion into product design. #MotionDesign #UX #HMW
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Motion Log
Educational project by Sergei Diuzhev. Detailed UI animations brakedown.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Test. Learn. Decide. Getting back into the tools this week has reminded me how important feedback cycle are. When we design in isolation eg, testing heavily with customers but not keeping the business looped in, we create more alignment work and rework later. #HMW #ProductDesign #DesignSky #UXsky
A simple, elegant diagram showing a continuous loop between Design Iteration, Customer Feedback, and Business Feedback. A single pink note, quietly marked “Feedback Cycle” rests beside it. The image captures the purity of an iterative process: a rhythm of testing, learning, and refining, where every cycle brings greater clarity and purpose.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
My Cupra had an update about a year ago which meant you could see the maps in the dash display. Guess it's all the same system between VW and Cupra.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I agree. I think it's about doing the stuff you've been asked to do well. Credibility will come, then you can focus on to autonomy. The team or stakeholders will start to ask you for your opinion and ideas.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
IC leadership isn’t about job titles it’s about behaviours. 3 ways ICs lead: Build the right team around the work by aligning with outside teams. Own the craft, raise standards across your team and make the outcome brilliant. Share the vision upwards, bring leaders with you to win trust. #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
But when companies compete at a similar price point to their competitors, they can’t rely on that. They have to compete on experiences: the quality, the service, the small touches, the details that makes people feel good and come back. #HMW #ProductDesign #UXsky
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Companies like Ryanair or Aldi win on price, not experience. They’ve can craft an intentionally frustrating customer journeys for business profits because their prices are so low, customers accept the hoops. #HMW #ProductDesign #UXsky
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Love Andrew's playing of Pierre Bensusan. The bassy stomp is recorded so well. Like a simple Bodhrán rhythm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuUn...
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"Merrily Kissed the Quaker/Cunla" by Pierre Bensusan
YouTube video by Andrew Lardner
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It’s important to be able to reject feedback. But stay humble and try it out first. Using our judgement to keep it, reject it, or build on it otherwise we risk missing out on something valuable.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Some of the best experience I've ever helped design on have been massively lead or influenced by some incredible developers. Collaboration and alignment is the way.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Love a hand crafted feel to font. Really nice.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
My favourite is reading user stories that have nothing to do with a user.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Did the floaty menu disappear in Figma. I was starting to like them.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We're competing on experience all the time. It’s adding up the little moments. Trust signals, feedback, timing, tone, reliability. Get them right, layer them up, and you create more than usability. You create confidence. That’s how products win today. #HMW #ProductDesign
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
If you are up around swords Ardgillan castle/house is also nice. Great play ground if you have kids with you and brilliant views over Dublin and the Irish sea. Malahide is a nice spot also.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Typical day I'm mostly managing the teams and meeting. But when I need to I would say 1-3hr blocks. Maybe and hour of being really focused. You can probably design anything in 1-3 hours. But need to then spend a week aligning everyone around it.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Winning! A designer on the team had taken on a project to create a better handovers with our tech teams. This has been a side of desk project for her over the last couple of months. She has just delivered her first phase. Now the team are helping with her on the others.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
It's only when you try to assemble a flat packed piece of furniture that's not IKEA. Do I realise how good the IKEA manuals are. Clarity in instructions should never be underestimated.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Having a tonne of fun with builder.io. Just built my first guitar tuner. It's crude but works. Lovin this. (Fender app used on iPad to test tuner is work) #productdesign #Ai #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Just picked up this beauty from Hatch ☕ Washed Ethiopian by Tagel Alemayehu – tasting notes of floral, kumquat, and honey 🍯🍊 Excited to brew this one! #Coffee #SpecialtyCoffee #Ethiopia #HatchRoast
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Writing User Stories and a definition of done when prompting in Figma Make makes a massive difference to its output. It gets it much quicker. #HMW #AiDesign #FigmaMake
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Begin every sprint or design exercise with a problem statement or “How might we…? and revisit it before creating any UI. Use that question to judge whether you need research, sketches or a prototype. #HMW #ProductDesign
Slide titled “Problem Statements” on a blue gradient background. Left panel reads “Write the Problem Statement with your team,” and explains that this aligns everyone on a single purpose: focus on understanding the problem first, solution later. Right panel shows a dark blue box with a template:
“Due to [specific issue or challenge], our product is experiencing [negative business outcome], which affects [broader business impact or stakeholder experience].”
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
That's cool. Really brings the property to life but not in the showy way that the normal video tours do.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Scenery Coffee treat for the cup today. ☕
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Embrace fluid ways of working. What flew at a big co might stall in a startup. Adapt your process to fit the context. #HMW #productdesign #DesignLeadership
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Prototype the future. Once you’ve converged, build one high-fi demo of that perfect day in the life to align the whole team. #HMW #productdesign #DesignLeadership
Three white smartphone mockups on a blue gradient background, each showing a different wireframe layout: the left one lists grey content blocks with pink pill-shaped buttons; the centre has a large media area, smaller cards and a bold pink call-to-action; the right stacks content panels with a pink button at the bottom.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Kicked off a great conversation with the UX team about how we use AI in our work. Fascinating to see the invisible ways it's already supporting our process. Loved hearing their take on it and how fluent they feel. Excited to keep exploring what AI means for our practice. #AI #DesignLeadership #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Double Diamond in action: use divergence to discover problems, convergence to nail execution. Two phases, one powerful framework thats user centred , business centred and improves your design craft. #HMW #productdesign #DesignLeadership”
Stylised Double Diamond diagram on a blue gradient background: two side-by-side diamonds illustrating divergent (expansion) and convergent (narrowing) phases, with colourful sticky notes, dashed arrows showing iteration, and abstract cloud shapes.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Early workshops help clear the air. Surfacing competitor ideas and breaking free from recent constraints. By workshop 2 or 3, thinking sharpens. We get closer to the real problem, and to what our customers actually need. #HMW #ProductDesign #DesignLeadership
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Kevin’s video on quality product design is packed with insights. How to pick the right fidelity, run a fluid Double Diamond and bring non-designers into the process. youtu.be/KkmdK6al0dE?... #HMW #productdesign #DesignLeadership
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Kevin Twohy – Conversations on Quality (Episode 08)
YouTube video by Linear
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Never mind naming layer in Figma, I need Ai to name files and folders. 😂
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
There’s a real energy to running a workshop especially with designers. It feels like we’re in the crucible, where ideas get forged into something real. Being prepared is important, but half the fun is the improvisation. Thinking on your feet. #DesignLeadership #UXDesign #Facilitation #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If you want execs to back your UX team, speak their language. Show/link how good design is is driving results. #HMW #ProductDesign #DesignLeadership #UX #BusinessImpact #DesignStrategy
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Cyber attack Insurance is going to be a huge consumer product in the future. Cyber security seems to be more focused on Business at the moment. I think it's much harder to protect yourself at home than in work.
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Just finished and passed (93%) the brilliantly put together course by Nancy Dickinson (eBay, Apple) Becoming a UX Executive on NN/g. Looking forward to using what we covered. www.nngroup.com/courses/ux-v...
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UX VP/Director | NN/g Training Course
Leading successfully requires concise, business-focused articulation of and commitment to user experience. Learn the skills you’ll need as a UX executive to drive business objectives and deliver on co...
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Want to earn trust as a designer? Bring the team in early, print your designs, give the team markers, invite critique, and make it their design, too. #Designsky #UXLeadership #DesignOps #ProductDesign #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
When research is just a phase, it gets skipped. When it’s a habit, it changes how teams think. #Designsky #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Design Thinking without execution is innovation theatre, but Design Craft without thinking is just styling. The two need to inform each other to create a meaningful outcome. #HMW
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Patrick Semple @patricksemple.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
UXers 👋 I’m mentoring on ADPList. Book a session if you want feedback, career advice, or just a good design chat. Always happy to help. 🔗 adplist.org/mentors/patr... #UX #Mentoring #Designsky #UXSky #HMW
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ADPList: Get mentored by Patrick Semple on ADPList
Currently UX Design Manager at AO.com. I’m particularly interested in changing user behaviours, systems, and design thinking to shape our world through innovation. I am looking at ways to raise the…
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