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 »
Time to read: < 1 minute While learning more about my discipline (user experience architecture), I discovered that I may have been mislabeling myself. There is a taxonomy matrix of skills / roles that has been developed by MethodBrain, and it doesn’t quite agree with what I thought was applicable. It is worth marking out the items on it that I […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute Was looking for interesting twitter statistics, and found this. I would like to suggest an amendment to the top 100 tweets. There is definitely room for “rants about bad transport”… […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute I am no longer sure how I found them, but I just discovered theory design, a UX / UI company based in Canada. There was a blog post by someone about retro-style sites, and theirs featured. It’s pretty! I loved the colours and the very post-2010 single-page-scrolling content layout, complete with static header with cute […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute Someone wanted to mock up a newspaper front page, but couldn’t quite visualise it. Barely an hour in PowerPoint, and I pulled this together. The main photo on the cover is my own, taken in Wales on a hike. […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute A foldable A5 survey card for a designer seeking feedback from her customers, which can be folded and mailed in. […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minute I lead design on the new IBM SPSS Decision Management suite of applications. This is a set of configurable web-based applications that bring predictive analytics to business users. My task was to design a front-end that would allow non-expert users to take advantage of data analysis tools available on IBM SPSS Modeler Server, combine them […] continue reading »