Great engineering comes from curiosity, and sometimes that means building your own setup from scratch.
In this article, Thinkmill engineer @dpandiyan
shares how he customised Arch Linux with Hyprland for a fully tailored development environment.
dineshpandiyan.com/blog/arch-linux-hyprland
Features don't exist in isolation. Users experience them as part of a journey.
User Journey Mapping helps us understand what users are doing, thinking, and feeling as they move through a product.
Read more about how we use it 👇
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APIs shape the product experience long before UI work begins.
In this article, Thinkmill designer @murphytrueman.bsky.social shares how designers can collaborate on API design using systems thinking.
👉 blog.murphytrueman.com/p/simplifyin...
We partnered with ASIC and Meld Studios to reimagine how Australia’s 3+ million companies interact with Registry Services.
👉 Read the full case study: www.thinkmill.com.au/work/asic-re...
If you’re redesigning complex government or financial services, we’d love to help.
We recently published our November newsletter.
It introduces our new audit offering, Keystone updates, plus our usual list of interesting links and resources from across the web.
Read it here 👇
www.thinkmill.com.au/newsletter/i...
We helped ASIC build a design system foundation to increase UX consistency and developer efficiency – unifying style guides, delivering accessible docs, and enabling teams through hands-on training.
Check out the case study 👇
www.thinkmill.com.au/work/asic-de...
Transformations power every data pipeline, but efficiency depends on how you structure them.
In this post, Thinkmill engineer @lukebennett.dev shares how loops and maps can make your data transformations faster and more expressive.
www.lukebennett.dev/posts/using-...
Not all UX issues are visible in the interface.
Our UX Audit looks deeper – at the code, patterns, and flows behind user friction – so teams can see what’s slowing them down, and fix it for good.
🔗 Find out more:
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When usability and business intent drift apart, conversion and retention suffer.
Our UX Audit helps teams see where that's happening (in the interface and the stack) and how to realign both.
www.thinkmill.com.au/services/ux-...
Like any other product, design systems need testing and iteration.
Our Design System Audit help your team see whether your system is accelerating delivery, or quietly slowing it down.
💡 Find out more: www.thinkmill.com.au/services/des...
#DesignSystems
Are your design tokens scalable?
Are patterns usable across stacks?
Are handover flows helping or hindering?
Our Design System Audit helps you answer these questions with clarity.
👉 Find out more: www.thinkmill.com.au/services/des...
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Accessibility isn’t just about compliance.
It’s about making products work for everyone and everything, with fixes that teams can actually maintain.
Take your first step towards better A11y with our new offering: Accessibility Audits
👉 www.thinkmill.com.au/services/acc...
Most accessibility audits stop at what’s broken – not why, or where to fix it.
Our Accessibility Audits give practical guidance tied to your environment – code, components, and patterns – so you can fix problems once, at their core.
💡Find out more
www.thinkmill.com.au/services/acc...
Illustration of a hand-drawn line being sketched with a thick pink marker. Text reads: “From fuzzy ideas to shared understanding. Route Mapping turns rough ideas into a real, actionable plan for delivery.” Thinkmill logo appears in the top left.
Before wireframes. Before prototypes. Before tickets.
We start with Route Mapping – our go-to method for aligning teams early by co-designing structure as a shared UX blueprint.
Learn how in our open playbook 📖
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...
Sometimes the biggest insight isn’t in the data – it’s in what someone says off-hand while trying to get a task done.
Design Ethnography helps us tune into context, habits, and friction as they surface.
We walk through it in our Playbook 👇
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...
Some decisions feel impossible to land.
Too many voices, conflicting priorities.
That’s when we reach for DACI – a decision-making framework we picked up from working with Atlassian.
It’s part of our Playbook 👇
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...
Since 2022, we’ve partnered with AnywhereWorks to evolve how their teams design and ship – across platforms, systems, and capability.
Design systems, infra, engineering support – real impact, built together.
🔗 Check out the full case study: thinkmill.com.au/work/anywher...
When products feel confusing, it’s often the concepts that aren’t clear.
Core Concepts is a method for mapping the key objects, states, and relationships in a system – so teams can move forward with shared understanding 🤝
From the Thinkmill Playbook →
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When teams feel stuck, we make the work visible.
Activity Mapping helps untangle product complexity and align teams – like a product spec, but more human, and trackable.
A recent addition to the Thinkmill Playbook →
www.thinkmill.com.au/method/playb...
We just hit send on our latest newsletter! 📰
In this edition, we share updates to the Thinkmill Method, cover some of our latest open-source work and explore what makes a good form.
Read the latest edition and subscribe here:
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We’ve released the first major version of graphql-ts!
@emmas.town’s brainchild brings type safety to your GraphQL schema and works with any GraphQL server built on GraphQL.js, like GraphQL Yoga, Apollo Server, or graphql-http.
Check out the docs at: graphql-ts.com
More inclusive user testing 💡
Lear how @jordangeizer.com built a browser-based prototype with @astro.build , @tailwindcss.com , and Keystatic to gather valuable insights into accessibility and usability from a diverse group of Queenslanders...
www.thinkmill.com.au/blog/inclusi...
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We’re hiring another Front-End Developer to join our team!
If you’re an Australian resident and are passionate about design systems and web accessibility, we want to hear from you!
www.thinkmill.com.au/careers/expe...
🎨🚀 We’re hiring a Front-End Developer to join our team! If you’re passionate about crafting intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and have experience with modern front-end meta-frameworks, we want to hear from you! 🌟
📍 Remote (AU/NZ) with office access in Sydney
www.thinkmill.com.au/careers/expe...