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Matt Isherwood

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Matt Isherwood is a UX consultant who helps ecommerce sites improve their website designs via evidence, not guesswork. He writes regular blogs and articles on UX design, in addition to writing books on the subject, including the Amazon Kindle bestseller Designing Ecommerce Websites.

He aims to give practical advice in a clear, easy-to-understand way. His content is based on knowledge learned from user behaviour data from real websites and from running many different usability tests. It tells you what works in reality, not in theory.

He started his career at the BBC, before being the lead UX designer at onefinestay, and spent several years teaching UX workshops and courses at General Assembly in London. He now specialises in remotely consultin ...more

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	Designing Ecommerce Websites: UX design insights to take your store to the next level 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Designing Ecommerce Websites: 47 UX design tips and tricks for great online shops really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evidence-Based UX Design Methods: 24 ways to find out what your users want 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Designing Ecommerce Websites 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evidence-Based UX Design Methods: 24 techniques to find out what your users want 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Matt rated a book it was amazing The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The most incredible true story told in a well-paced, compelling way, with lots of historic context and interesting asides.
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Enjoyed the dystopian premise and the way the story unfolded with its sense of tension throughout. Feel like the ending had a few too many elements and didn’t quite resolve everything.
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Compelling tale of hubris (and confusion) of the late part of the Biden presidency.
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Full of hope and interesting perspectives on the progress humanity is making amongst the doom and gloom we get reported.
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Good setup and characters full of contrasts, went into a fair bit of detail on the work of weavers, bit of a flat ending.
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Paints a picture of the grim reality of end-of-days for the British Empire and the cast of unlikable characters stuck out in the sticks.
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A tight tale exploring the knock on effects of a single event/relationship with realistic characters and motivations (the email chapter didn’t work for me though).
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A tight tale exploring the knock on effects of a single event/relationship with realistic characters and motivations (the email chapter didn’t work for me though).
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