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I am Ken Hawkins.

Measuring success beyond the page view

Analytics on page views and bounce rates won't tell you if your content has impact — here's how I measure what actually matters.

Making sense of many Copilots like many MS Office products

Five Copilots, one brand — and one table to explain what each does.

Creating warm, dappled light with CSS and SVG

I added a sunlit ambience effect to this site using pure CSS and SVG — no JavaScript, just gradients and blend modes.

Introducing a "Work" section

A home for evidence-led impact stories documenting measurable outcomes from my work on platforms, performance, and design systems.

The power of the pause: How planning beats prompt tuning

Traditional project planning techniques helps ensure maximal benefits from AI tools.

A stop-gap Drupal module to kill Word Junk in CKEditor 5

A tiny CKEditor 5 plugin for Drupal that strips inline Word-like junk in one click.

Individualism is the flavor AI chatbots can't stomach

The AI experience has drained traffic from reference content, but leaves a path forward of human-centric experiences, interactivity, and better on-site value.

Sacrificing knowledge in the name of data

The goal is not more data, but data to facilitate the story of what we're trying to achieve.

Predictable, token-based filenames with Eleventy Image

How I swapped Eleventy Image’s hashed outputs for readable, stable names — and the trade‑offs.

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