Adam Ellison

Human-centred product designer

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

I wonder, as a #dyslexic designer, what the world would be like if it favored my way of thinking and working. Would we ask writers to draw pictures to prove their skills when applying for jobs?

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Problem-solved, but a mystery opened. I was working in a library and once I connected to my phone's 4G all worked fine. Why, or if, @wfcouncil is blocking Github, is a mystery.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

The pains of being an intermittent front-end dev. Just trying to update my site and Github is causing issues. After resetting SSH keys (which worked yesterday) I'm now getting "ssh: connect to host https://t.co/t6shmFNVfy port 22: Connection refused
fatal..." Any tips?

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

I found it! After listening to many marketing podcasts and reading business books, I always wondered how you were meant to “find your market”, turns out it is here in Leytonstone. Now to understand it 🤔

#marketing #business #startup

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Focus tip: Hit the fullscreen button 🔛 - When working on a project put your app or browser (if you’re using a web app) into fullscreen mode. It’s annoying to move out of but that’s useful as you’ll notice when your wondering away from your work.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Sometimes being a creative #entrepreneur is like being that character in a horror film who sees the ghost first.👻

It’s either all in your head and doesn’t really exist. Or you need to do something about it regardless of it making you look crazy.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

The Monday Morning Club was a social enterprise I built, ran, and funded to support job seekers.

I'm now a job seeker myself and have updated my portfolio with the work I did for @TheMMC_all. Take a look and let me know what you think 😄 https://t.co/LuWYbn4kux

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

You suddenly realise, when you working out and about without headphones on, how much people sniff. 🤧

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Trying to turn 5 years of building a social enterprise from scratch into a neat, succinct case study for my portfolio (https://t.co/yPTZhJ1lWN). Wish me luck! 🙃

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Missing from the conversation about #AI is the impact on #collaboration. I'm guilty of trying to do everything myself and not reaching out. But it's often in the moments we do that we learn a lot and new opportunities open up. The convenience of AI could hinder this.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

I'm currently looking for a new project or role in a team focused on the future of work and its impact on education, employability, or self-employment.

Get in touch if our interests align. I'd love to chat.

#futureofwork #productdesign #education #employability #selfemployment

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

There’s no such thing as good ideas. Just ideas that have been made into something good. #NoteToSelf

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Anyone else, who runs a small business, starting to question the value of this content marketing world we live in? Time costs too. #ContentCreator #contentmarketing

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

What if ideas where like scratch cards where all you had to do is scratch the surface to see if they hold value.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

@whimsical love your product. It would be great to have a way of viewing documents on mobile. Or is this something that exists but I’m missing?

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

I'm on the lookout for a freelance visual designer interested in getting into user-centered design, or UCD'er who'd like to turn their hand to a bit of rapid branding/visual identity work. Drop me an email with your portfolio at [email protected] if you're interested.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Prototyping - fake it till you make it.

#design #usercentereddesign #humancentereddesign

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Illustrator and design friends - are you free next week and interested in creating a illo for @TheMMC_all’s next powerful email? DM me for the budget and deadline deets.

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

Smokers have it right. 🚬

Imagine if people took short, outdoor, mental health breaks, come rain or shine, regularly throughout the day (sans cancer stick). Wouldn’t that be great?

[Adam Ellison @adotellison]

This is great! The car manual reference is a bit lost on me, not being a #gearhead, but I appreciate the work @MensHealthForum is doing https://t.co/A2pHfi6rLT