Time to read: 5 minutesWhen people ask me what I do, I reply that I make websites. Recently, I’ve been working as a UX freelancer on various projects. What did I really do? […] continue reading »
UX: the 7 steps of what I really do for money
Category: Creativity
Why I’m hiding out from my blog on Medium
Time to read: 3 minutesThis week, I didn’t blog. I have 16 drafts sitting in my “drafts” folder, and I’m unwilling to publish any of them. I’ve come to Medium to make amends. […] continue reading »
sketchbook Monday: dress pattern making
Time to read: < 1 minuteI want to make a dress to wear to a friend’s wedding this weekend. Yes. This weekend. In 5 days. I’m not sure I’ll manage, but my sketchbook looks more optimistic. I have the fabric, the zip, the matching thread and the dress idea. Alas, mother says the (terrible anyway) sewing machine we have here […] continue reading »
sketchbook Monday: dresses
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sketchbook Mondays – laptop work bag
Time to read: < 1 minuteA sketch for a handbag inspired by Longchamp’s simple pliage “H” base pattern. Carries laptop in the centre, notebook, kindle, ipad in the “back”, and cables and other tidbits in the front. Handles would be wide for comfort. Longchamp’s laptop bags, to my surprise, value aesthetics over usability and persist in having stringy painful straps. […] continue reading »
is my email all i need on my business cards?
Time to read: 2 minutesI’m tired of my current business cards, because they have nothing to do with business. I have had moo minicards for a good 3 or 4 years. On them, i share my mobile numbers in the UK and Greece (i don’t fancy printing two versions), website URL, twitter handle, email, and my name. Nothing about […] continue reading »
sketchbook Monday – handbag contents
Time to read: < 1 minuteNew goal: post a sneak photo of what went on in my sketchbook the previous week. Today, a simple unpolished sketch of various items that I carry with me every day. They don’t actually fit in the tiny handbag featured. And that’s part of the point of this sketch, to visualise how much stuff I […] continue reading »
do I really need a photo for Linked in?
Time to read: 4 minutesSo last week I was kindly requested to take photographs of some of our senior executives, so they could update their various online profiles, both internal and external. I brought my camera in and diligently grabbed a series of portraits. I then cleaned them up, worked some Picasa magic (we don’t have Photoshop here), cropped, […] continue reading »
show them the post-its!
Time to read: 2 minutesMost designers are perfectionists, and will continue working on something until it’s “just right”. This means we often use up all the time allocated and risk making something completely off the mark, to boot! Show them the post its, I say! Or, in this example, the labels… […] continue reading »
why I haven’t written in more than a week (photo post)
Time to read: 2 minutesThis past week I haven’t had time to blog because I’ve been running around and moving house. A photo story. […] continue reading »