Written by: Andy Lobban

Favourite music in 2024

New to me These only properly came into my life in 2024, but are from previous years. Lael Neale - Star Eaters Delight (2023) and Acquainted with Night (2021) (both Sub Pop) Lael Neale …
2 January 2025

Designing Design Teams – Verified Newsletter interview

I was recently interviewed for Tom Scott's Verified newsletter which "covers the business of design through interviews and insights". Hey Andy, what’s been your journey to design leadership? I’m currently VP Design at Cleo, …
10 July 2024

Oh hi – I moved back to WordPress

I’ve just moved this website back to WordPress. I know, I know. JAMStack is the future. WordPress is slow. The thing is, when I moved it over to Hugo, I never updated it. Even …
20 January 2023

Creating a great UX & Design case study

This post originally appeared on FanDuel Life blog. Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash When you apply for a position on the UX & Design team at FanDuel, we ask you to send at …
6 April 2021

A few words about Major Minor Music Club

I’ve taken my daughter to a few Major Minor events, and was asked to write a few words about the latest one, featuring Martha Ffion. Read at The List “Andy Lobban (one half of …
3 March 2020

My favourite albums of 2018

My top five In no particular order Low - Double NegativeYoung Fathers - Cocoa SugarKathryn Joseph - From When I Wake the Want IsWaxahatchee - Great Thunder EPAdam Stafford - Fire Behind the Curtain …
31 December 2018

Design, systems, people

I was very pleased to be asked to speak at World Usability Day 2018 in Poznań, Poland. I was asked to speak about design systems, but with so much information already out there about the …
19 November 2018

Physical music documentary

Kevin Robertson interviewed me for his documentary about physical music formats. 'Musical Artefacts' - Documentary from Kevin Robertson on Vimeo.
8 November 2015

Some good new music on Bandcamp

I love Bandcamp. Every week I get an email with new music that people I follow have bought. I've been listening to loads of new stuff the last couple of days. Here are some …
2 October 2015

Andy Lobban

Edinburgh, Scotland