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    <description>Shopify, WordPress and AI automation developer based in Romford, Essex. Custom web apps, conversion optimisation and technical SEO for businesses across London, Essex and the UK.</description>
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      <title>A product card should work beyond the mouse</title>
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      <description>Designing useful catalogue cards across keyboard, touch, image alternatives and changing product states.</description>
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      <title>A useful content review workflow with Claude</title>
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      <description>Turn a page review into a clear set of evidence-backed suggestions, with the original copy and the final decision kept visible.</description>
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      <title>An AI-assisted creative review for Meta ads</title>
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      <description>Review the connection between the creative, the offer and the destination page before turning variations into an advertising test.</description>
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      <title>Build a support workflow that prepares the reply for review</title>
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      <description>Connect the customer question, approved information and a proposed response, with clear escalation when the evidence is incomplete.</description>
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      <title>Build a WordPress site that someone can keep looking after</title>
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      <description>A practical handover starts with content patterns, clear ownership, tested updates and a way to recover.</description>
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      <title>Choose an AI model by testing the workflow it needs to support</title>
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      <description>Build a practical evaluation around your own inputs, review criteria and operational constraints before comparing model configurations.</description>
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      <title>Choose case-study images that explain the work</title>
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      <description>Real screenshots, complete interfaces and precise captions make a stronger project story than decorative imagery alone.</description>
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      <title>Compare product images and catalogue records with Gemini</title>
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      <description>Design a review that uses images alongside product data, without mistaking a visual observation for a verified product specification.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Design a Google Ads review agent around useful questions</title>
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      <description>Turn a campaign export into a focused review queue, with clear context and evidence before any budget or targeting decision.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Design the search that finds nothing</title>
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      <description>Keep the query, explain the state and offer a relevant next step when a catalogue search returns no matches.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Designing a product branch workflow that can explain its choices</title>
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      <description>A practical way to turn a messy catalogue into reviewable category proposals, without treating a suggestion as a confirmed product fact.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Draft LinkedIn posts without losing the person behind them</title>
      <link>https://www.gokularimbra.me/blog/linkedin-drafting-with-human-review</link>
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      <description>Use AI to organise real notes into a reviewable draft, while keeping experience, evidence and the final publishing decision with the author.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Give a storefront a performance budget before adding more</title>
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      <description>Turn performance from a final score into a practical decision about images, scripts, interaction and everyday ownership.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Make DeepSeek output usable in a structured workflow</title>
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      <description>Move from a plausible response to a checked data object, with explicit fields, validation, evidence and clear recovery states.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Measure a checkout change before calling it an improvement</title>
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      <description>Connect the hypothesis, event definitions, journey checks and decision record before interpreting a conversion result.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Prepare the catalogue before connecting an AI tool</title>
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      <description>Identifiers, sources, missing values and review samples: the unglamorous foundations that make catalogue assistance useful.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Review product variants before small inconsistencies spread</title>
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      <description>A practical agent workflow for checking option names, identifiers and image relationships without inventing missing variants.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Show the action before the agent takes it</title>
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      <description>Design an action preview that makes the target, proposed change, evidence and next step easy to inspect.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Test an agent with the cases you hope it never sees</title>
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      <description>Build a small evaluation set around incomplete inputs, conflicting sources, interrupted actions and human review.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Use ChatGPT to make e-commerce research easier to check</title>
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      <description>A practical way to organise product, competitor and customer research around clear questions, traceable sources and useful next steps.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A calmer way to review a theme update</title>
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      <description>How to review a Shopify or WordPress theme update without guessing: keep a short record of customisations, compare against it, and know what changed on purpose.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A stock feed needs a clear boundary</title>
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      <description>Connecting a supplier stock feed to a store means deciding which system owns each field and what happens when they disagree, before any data moves.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A theme redesign that leaves room for updates</title>
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      <description>A visual redesign becomes difficult to maintain when every improvement depends on an undocumented change.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An experimentation practice starts with better questions</title>
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      <description>A CRO practice starts with a clear question and a plain hypothesis, not a long list of changes. How to frame experiments that actually teach you something.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An unavailable product does not need to be a dead end</title>
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      <description>An out-of-stock product page still has a job: explain the state, offer the nearest useful alternative and capture interest without promises the store cannot keep.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Campaign creative needs a useful structure</title>
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      <description>A campaign is easier to review when its creative assets, landing pages and intended audience tell a coherent story.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Choosing what to build and what to adopt</title>
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      <description>Choosing a platform starts with understanding the work it needs to support.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Define the event before drawing the funnel</title>
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      <description>Before drawing a GA4 funnel, agree what each event means in plain language. A measurement plan built on shared definitions produces reports people trust.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Designing a search experience around the catalogue</title>
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      <description>Search quality starts with a clear understanding of the products and the language people use to find them.</description>
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      <title>Filters should make a catalogue easier to understand</title>
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      <description>Filters are a promise about how a catalogue is organised. How to choose facets in the language of the products so filtering makes discovery easier, not harder.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Good product data is part of the interface</title>
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      <description>Consistent product information makes many interface decisions simpler.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Human review is an interaction to design</title>
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      <description>A human review step in an AI workflow is an interface to design: enough context to decide, enough control to change course, and a clear moment of approval.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Make a complex enquiry form easier to follow</title>
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      <description>A detailed enquiry form needs to explain why it is asking questions and what happens next.</description>
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      <title>Make an automated workflow understandable</title>
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      <description>When a workflow runs without constant supervision, its status becomes part of the interface.</description>
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      <title>Make important content easy to discover</title>
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      <description>Search visibility and a useful user experience often depend on the same foundations: clear content, meaningful links and pages that communicate their purpose.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Making WordPress maintenance a routine</title>
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      <description>Maintenance works better as a repeatable practice than as a response to a worrying message.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Operational reports should explain themselves</title>
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      <description>A report is useful when a reader can understand what a row represents and where its information came from.</description>
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      <title>Payment choices need clear, consistent presentation</title>
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      <description>Buy-now-pay-later and other payment options add a decision to checkout. How to present them clearly and consistently so the choice helps rather than distracts.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reading a product page as a series of decisions</title>
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      <description>A product page asks a visitor to understand something, decide whether it fits and choose what to do next.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Search begins before the search box.</title>
      <link>https://www.gokularimbra.me/blog/clearer-search-interfaces</link>
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      <description>Why useful labels, clear categories and thoughtful empty states belong to the same conversation.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Small automated tools, clear responsibilities</title>
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      <description>A collection of small tools can be easier to understand when each has a specific responsibility.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The quieter work of improving an online store</title>
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      <description>An online store is shaped by many small decisions: how products are named, where information lives and what happens after a visitor chooses an action.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Turn a website review into a useful action list</title>
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      <description>A review creates value when its findings can be understood and acted on.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What a checkout funnel can help you ask</title>
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      <description>A checkout funnel is a sequence of questions about a real customer journey. How to define the steps so a drop-off percentage points to a cause, not a headline.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A design system should leave room for change.</title>
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      <description>On reusable parts, deliberate boundaries and systems that remain understandable as they grow.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The quiet details of a good interaction.</title>
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      <description>Focus, feedback and motion: small decisions that make a digital experience feel considered.</description>
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