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  • 09 Sep 2012

    Responsive Design: Beyond the Blog

    For a lot of smaller websites, responsive design can be a relatively simple case of dealing with different screen widths using media queries, but it's harder for very large sites.

  • 10 Jun 2012

    Redesigning the Buffer App, part 2

    Part 2 of redesigning the Buffer App design story.

  • Redesigning the Buffer App, part 1

    Buffer, if you haven’t heard of it is a neat little service allowing you to schedule tweets.

  • 24 Jan 2012

    Cut the crap

    Simplifying a site in 10 minutes by simply removing some of the crap.

  • 22 Jan 2012

    Wire-framing for responsive design

    Responsive design creates some enormous challenges, not just in build but also in layout and wire-framing.

  • 15 Dec 2011

    A prototype is worth a thousand words

    Design isn’t just how it looks, Design is how it works. Why we should prototype to solve problems and describe the product visually.

  • 16 Nov 2011

    Web Vs Native Info-graphic

    An info-graphic to distinguish between web and native apps.

  • 06 Nov 2011

    An Experience with User Personas

    I was asked recently to prepare a set of user personas for a large new client website.

  • 09 Sep 2011

    Web sites are NOT posters

    A rant about web page not being posters and how they are very different beasts.

  • 24 Jun 2011

    Boag Potter: the days before Hogscape

  • 29 Mar 2011

    Happy Face Syndrome Must Stop

    I'm calling it Happy Face Syndrome, and it's the visual equivalent of Steve Krug's 'Happy Talk' - happy people in place of actual content.

  • 14 Mar 2011

    Design Ignorance is Bliss?

  • 01 Dec 2010

    Knowing when to quit

  • 04 Oct 2010

    The Power of Sculpture

    Yesterday I experienced sculpture that rocked me, it moved me like art rarely ever has.

  • 09 Sep 2010

    A Vision in Granite and Marble

  • 06 Jun 2010

    Please, no more tired analogue metaphors

    Tutting at the over-use of Polaroids, coffee stains, ink splats and other over-designed web elements (of which I'm also guilty).

  • 20 Nov 2009

    Why I Love Constraint

    It sounds odd to hear myself say it, but I LOVE constraint. It allows me and more importantly, it forces me to be at my most creative.

  • 13 Nov 2009

    Creating the Cygnus

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About Me

Designing Webs since 1994. UX Design Consultant at Headscape Ltd. Writes & Talks at Boagworld. In Smashing and .Net magazines.  
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Work and Friends

  • Headscape Ltd (Web agency)
  • Dan Sheerman (Front-end developer)
  • Chris Henderson (Web developer)
  • Ian Luckraft (Developer)
  • Ed Merritt (Designer)
  • Chris Sanderson (Designer)
  • Mez Hopking (Designer)
  • Paul Boag (Web evangelist)

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