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    Palgrave Macmillan

    July 2014

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    To design, create and build templates for a prestigious academic publisher with an diverse catalogue, complex dual product focus and large sets of specific information for different users.

    The Challenge

    The goal was to brand the site with a modern, understated look providing simplicity for users whatever the device they access from.

    Bob and Barn

    July 2014

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    A pair of talented composers in Cambridge, UK, Bob and Barn’s website offers a showcase of their best work.

    The site’s primary goal is to present latest work and news together with a full database of their music clips filterable by mood,

    University of Glasgow

    June 2014

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    An agile redesign of the University website. Fast turnaround responsive design and development embedded in Glasgow with the Strathclyde web team.

    The Challenge

    Working fast and agile is a productive experience and the internal web team have worked hard to implement a modern,

    Macmillan English Campus

    May 2014

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    I worked for Macmillan Publishers on their Learning Management System called English Campus, a large web application aimed particularly at teaching English language skills to South American students.

    This was a challenging and complex project which was difficult to get a grasp of at first due to the size and variety of its functionality.

    Dickstein Shapiro

    October 2013

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    The Dickstein Shapiro site was a large project, a top US law firm based in Washington spanning a 2 year period.

    The site was fully responsive, featuring subtle parallax scrolling on the home page and large dynamic visuals for wide screen displays.

    Design work

    • competitor review
    • heuristic analysis and review
    • stakeholder interviews with key attorneys
    • user personas/journeys
    • multiple mood-boards 

    Barbells and Bling

    June 2013

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    This work was for an Australian e-commerce site for jewellery and temporary nail/tattoo design. The site had become quite large and the design was faltering, especially at narrow/mobile widths.

    I helped to redesgn and tidy up the whole interface, make everything look larger,

    CAS Business School

    December 2012

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    A responsive redesign of key pages of the Cass Business School, London.

    • Expert Review of site
    • Design workshop with stakeholders.
    • Wire-framing and visual design.

    Page designs

    Anglian Waterways

    September 2012

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    I created a logo and variants for a large waterways concern, branched across different parts of the country.

    The initial concept was a river forming the shape of a W with the first meander containing a bridge to cross the letter A ,

    Buffer App

    May 2012

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    I was tasked with exploring some different design directions in a set of mood-boards and then mocking up interfaces, including an on-boarding walk-through tour of the app and an analytics dashboard.

    Buffer is a cross platform application and service allowing users to delay and schedule tweets.

    Connexions

    December 2010

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    Connexions was a careers resource site for a teen audience in Leicestershire catchment.

    The challenge here was to create a vibrant and dynamic design to inspire and connect with teenagers looking for help finding training and work, whilst not being patronising or trying to hard to be ‘with it’.

    Open University

    August 2009

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    I worked together with my designer colleague Ed Merritt on the Open University redesign.

    I did a lot of initial look and feel work on designs to integrate into a Drupal 4 CMS install.

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    Apetito

    May 2009

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    A fresh new design to represent A large ‘meals on wheels’ food company.

    Design Lead: Design look and feel.

    Home page
    Landing page
    Content page

    Aberdeen University

    March 2008

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    The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. I undertook a major redesign project to give the University a fresh new look and feel.

    The Challenge

    The biggest challenge was to find a design direction that was correct in the eyes of the many stakeholders of the University going forwards.

    BBSRC

    March 2006

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    Following a re-branding exercise, I redesigned the website for Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

    The Challenge

    My original design was in around 2002 and updated a few years later to address some of the shortcomings and to rebuild with new web technologies of the time.

    Adoption and Fostering

    March 2006

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    A site design for an adoption and fostering charity in the UK, including back end custom CMS design.

    Home page
    Sub page
    Admin page

    Hoteline Flash Intro

    March 2000

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    A ‘Flash Intro’. They used to be a thing. Annoying intro sequences before you got to the home page of a website – the basic aim of which was to show off a bit about what the site did – or rather just show off what the Flash animator had found out what to do in a ‘wooooooo’

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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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