With the General Election only a couple of weeks away the website I designed for the Electoral Commission, aboutmyvote.co.uk, has received quite a bit of news coverage. As I mentioned in my previous post, at the end of last year we were the proud recipients of a BIMA award for Best Informational Website beating the likes [...]
Back in October Damian Proctor (Redweb’s Head of Design) and I were asked by Web Designer Magazine to pick a website that we felt represented ‘bad’ design, explain why and offer up a solution of how we’d improve it. We didn’t want to choose something obvious or easy. We wanted to challenge ourselves by picking [...]
Back in November I was approached by Craig Grannell who asked if I’d like to contribute towards the cover article for .net magazine’s December issue. I jumped at the chance and was really pleased to have been given the chance to comment along-side the likes of Leisa Reichelt, Dan Saffer, Andy Budd and Luke Wroblewski. [...]
The last couple months has been a hectic time and with the end of the year just round the corner I thought I’d better blog about some of it. I’ve had several blog posts on the go and not managed to finish a single one of them. I even wrote a post back in September where [...]
Recently I took part in a 30 mile mountain bike ride. It was quite a challenge and on reflection made me think about not only my cycling ability but also user experience design, naturally! This post explains how I’ve made the tenuous leap from mountain biking to UX and then to my thoughts on Jared Spool’s lunch. My [...]
