One Footer in the Grave | Mary’s gone blind again


With one foot in the door of their retirement home for senior web designers, Paul Boag, Andy Clarke, Jon Hicks, and Marcus Lillington get together once a month to distract each other from everyday life and work.

The show’s funny and frivolous and the chaps have a genuinely unique chemistry and will entertain you if you work on the web and even if you don’t.


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November 2021 All episodes

5: Mary’s gone blind. Again

In this new episode, Andy, Jon, Paul, and Marcus discuss their summers and how it felt to leave Brexit Island behind. They talk about how it feels when kids leave home and then (sometimes) move back. Then, they wrap things up by admitting to their TV watching guilty pleasures.

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The chaps

Paul Boag

Paul advises on every area of digital transformation and user experience. He’s written six books on topics such as conversion rate optimisation and digital transformation.

@boagworld    boagworld.com

Andy Clarke

Andy’s a well-known web designer who’s written several popular books on art direction and website design including Transcending CSS, Hardboiled Web Design, and Art Direction for the Web.

@malarkey    stuffandnonsense.co.uk

Jon Hicks

Jon’s a gentleman graphic artist who wears many hats. He’s most known for his logo work for Firefox, MailChimp and Shopify, but his skills cover a much broader spectrum.

@hicksdesign    hicks.design

Marcus Lillington

Marcus is a former pop-star who now runs the design agency Headscape and consults with their clients on business analysis, UX design, and content strategy.

@marcus67    headscape.co.uk