‘Design’ posts
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
JetBlue.com – a design review
I saw this tweet from Dustin Curtis over the weekend and thought it would be useful to give the design of the JetBlue ‘flight booking’ pages a quick review to try and uncover how they merited this positive response from an established user experience professional.
First impressions, clean, simple and smart. Young and fairly unemotional.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Kieth Loutit – A collection of tilt shift movies
Filmed in Sydney, using the docks, the fabulous harbour and Mardi Gras celebrations as his canvas Kieth Loutit explores tilt shift in full motion giving both a child like and possibly God like perspective to the world we live in. (more…)
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Glitchy and jumpy jQuery/jCarousel animation
I came across a particularly bizarre bug when working on the new Fluke website. It seemed to appear from nowhere mid-project and manifested itself in a rather odd animation glitch.
I had set up a couple of jCarousel arrays and found that one one page (which had it’s won unique styling) the carousel animation seemed to glitch, dragging the background with it in a jumpy, jaggedy manner.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The Experience Design Manifesto
Its pretty aspirational stuff, but as a manifesto for the work I would like to be doing for the next ten years, it’s a great place to start. So for that reason Andrë – count me in.
User Centred Design and Experience Design are both schools of thought with one clear goal – to make users lives better. People who know me will testify that trying to make users lives better is one of my primary motivations when it comes to approaching web design. (more…)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Big ideas (don’t get any)
With a Sinclair ZX Spectrum on Guitars (rhythm & lead), an Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer on Drums, an HP Scanjet 3c on Bass Guitar and a Hard Drive array which acts as vocal and fx. The guy who made it states “It doesn’t sound great…” but I love it!
It’s not only a trip down memory lane but also quite an ingenious little plinky plonk remix of Radiohead’s Nude, and if it’s for real, which it claims to be, it is quite literally – genius!
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
An accessible “Starkers” Wordpress theme
When I came to putting together this blog I was really happy to find the Starkers Wordpress Theme. However with some simple additions – which can be easily implemented – from high contrast layouts and access keys to skip menus – we could make a massive difference in terms of accessibility to all sorts of users. This is the concept behind the creation of an Accessible Starkers Theme. (more…)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Affordable user testing just got a lot closer
Designed to work on Apple laptops with their built in i-Sight cameras. Silverback is an application designed to bring user testing into the hands of the masses.
Silverback will give even the smallest studio an informed understanding of user experience – .NET magazine
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The simple ones are always the best – Where the hell is Matt
A glorious few minutes of video highlighting the fact that the simple ideas are always the best. Well done Matt! (more…)
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Wales in Style wins Travolution award
I am delighted by the news that the Wales in Style website has won an award at the Travolution 2007 awards ceremony.
Wales in Style provides the discerning visitor with the very best of Welsh tourism. It’s a by-invitation-only online community centred on a Website seed-funded originally by the Welsh Assembly, now run as partnership subscription model operated by Designate on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government. (more…)
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last.fmI work and play at TUI Ski where I spend my days endeavoring to craft delightful interactive experiences. At home I like country pubs, listening to the eclectic delights of French radio FIP and am daddy to a clutch of cheeky little monsters. Any opinions expressed here are mine and do not represent the opinions of any company I work for.. Powered by WordPress | Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).