User Experience Architects empathise with users to understand needs and expectations, and shape the best possible products and services to fit them.
Time to read: 2 minutes yet another flat Last night i saw YAF (yet another flat). In fairness, a house. The very large double room was really nice. I’m talking good furniture, space, light green walls, space, south-facing windows, space,… The five housemates lovely. And, most importantly, all of my things would have fit!! yet another no So of course, […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes I love stories. And television series are lovely little drip-fed stories with the same characters, new gags, amusing plot twists, that go on and on for 12 hours each season… but are released on an arbitrary weekly schedule and time! They’re the television equivalent of Harry Potter, Kushiel’s Dart triple-trilogy, the classic The Three Musketeers […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute Twitter is down. And I can’t tweet about it. The shock! The horror! So I’m posting here. There’s a cute robo-monkey though. It’ll all be fine. […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute I won’t take the credit for this. I saw someone mentioning it. @themattelliott to be specific. The gist of it is that there is a little website which will take instagram photos (yours, someone else’s, from a tag, etc…) and generate a background image for you which you can stick onto twitter. This is what […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes A friend of a friend needs a website. She’s an award-winning theatre director and professor in the USA, so her website needs to convey her experience and vision. I asked her why she does what she does, why she has chosen to direct, and she said that she loves telling stories, showing relationships about people, […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes I saw my first properly large double room today. I love it. As in really love it. It can actually fit all my clothes and books and things! first reaction But the experience of walking into a room where 5 people were sitting around a table, with a chair very blatantly set up on the […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes Last weekend I had to traipse across town, spending more then three hours in transit to go see two flats. It made me think about where I want to live rather strongly so this week I am using a new technique. last week I learnt that I don’t want to share with couples It would […] continue reading »
Time to read: 3 minutes In the never-ending game of chicken with the Universe in 2013, I have been asked to move out of the flat I have occupied for 5 years, twice in the same week. I was sent a notice to move last Wednesday, then on Friday morning the property manager called me to tell me that they’d […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutes So I was at home, nice and cosy… And I’ve just downloaded some new episodes of Frasier that I want to add to my collection. To move them from my hard drive on the Air to the networked drive, I need to unplug that, connect it via usb, move the files, stick it back on […] continue reading »
Time to read: 5 minutes If I am stuck with a budget of next-to-nothing, can I still design for the web at the level I normally deliver? Can, ultimately, web design be free? “adobe” is web-design for “wealthy” I have been fortunate enough to work on Adobe products for most of my web designing life, so creating lovely interactive buttons, […] continue reading »