Category archive for ’User Experience’

User Experience books for beginners on UXBooth

Back in April the nice people at UXBooth asked me if I’d like to write a blog post for them. At the time having noticed a lot of great looking books on the horizon from the likes of Donna Spencer and the boys from ClearLeft, Cennydd Bowles and James Box, I thought I’d put together [...]

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Simplifying voter registration: my small part in the general election

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 [...]

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The World’s worst best website – redesigning MoneySavingExpert

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 [...]

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Master User Experience design an interview with .net magazine

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. [...]

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Roundup: What have I been up to lately?

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 [...]

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