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    VSO

    March 2020

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    A simplification of a previous design, removing iterative in-house design changes and inconsistencies which had eroded the overall integrity of the site.

    Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is a not-for-profit international development organization charity. I first redesigned the VSO website in 2016 – when the main objective was to improve the recruitment of highly skilled professionals for volunteering,

    Hatch Mansfield

    May 2019

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    Hatch Mansfield are a UK distributor and specialist in premium wine. I helped to design and build a new website to reflect its growing portfolio of independent family owned wine producers.

    One of the big design challenges was accommodating the identities of different wine brands whilst still making them feel part of a Hatch Mansfield brand experience.

    Field Studies Council

    April 2019

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    FSC centres are located in some of the most stunning rural locations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Each year more than 165,000 people visit its centres.

    The first ten comparable weeks of operation saw an increase of over 40% in the number of ecommerce transactions over the same period in the previous year.

    Nestlé

    February 2019

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    An updated responsive look and feel to bring the Nestle.com corporate site into alignment with new global branding.

    Nestlé is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate. In 2018, I was tasked with redesigning their corporate site, with a strict adherence to new brand assets created by a third party branding agency.

    Universitas 21

    May 2018

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    U21 has 26 research-intensive university members, 1.3 million students, over 220,000 staff, budgets amounting to over US$25bn and an annual research grant income of over US$6.5bn.

    One of the biggest challenges of this project was understanding the function, roles and specific content types of U21.

    Whistleblower

    April 2018

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    BuckleySandler is a large American Law firm based in Washington DC. Whistleblower Advocacy is a small Drupal 8 child site giving greater prominence to one practice area.

    This micro-site was a re-use of the main BuckleySandler site into a Drupal 8 child site/theme.

    British Trust for Ornithology

    February 2018

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    BTO are one of the biggest ornithological charities in the UK with an emphasis on science and understanding of birds.

    BTO needed a partner to reorganise and redesign its ageing website. The old site had become outdated in its design look and feel,

    Blank Rome

    November 2017

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    Blank Rome is an US law firm with 13 offices around the world and more than 600 attorneys.

    A bold, innovative site to get those needing help to the right attorney or practice with ease and confidence

    The goal was to create a clear,

    Royal Entomological Society

    October 2017

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    The RES is devoted to the promotion and development of entomological science, and the most eminent society related to insects in the UK, if not the world.

    An established Royal Society brand re-imagined as a modern, simplified web presence embracing new ideas,

    Colt Telecom

    September 2017

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    Colt provides communications services to information intensive businesses across Europe, Asia and North America.

    The Challenge

    A fresh emphasis on connecting partners with products in a heavily componentised pattern library to play nicely with Beaver Builder in WordPress.

    Colt’s WordPress site needed a new Information Architecture and a re-skin to bring it up-to-date and iron out usability and user experience problems.

    Buckley Sandler

    March 2017

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    BuckleySandler is a large American Law firm based in Washington DC.

    The Challenge

    The old site was small, unresponsive, cluttered, badly planned and unmanageable. The challenge was to establish Buckley Sandler as a big player in a crowded law sector, to stand out from the crowd whilst staying true to the core principles of the firm.

    Buckley Sandler Branding

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    Sometimes it’s clear when starting a redesign, that an important aspect of the site is wrong – the branding.

    A strong, clear, and energetic new brand for a large international law firm.

    On occasions there is the willingness, scope and budget to address this.

    Birkbeck College

    December 2016

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    I created User Journey graphics for a large London University to help inform staff of the decision paths of some of their key prospective students.

    The Challenge

    To transfer hundreds of post-it notes from a 2 day user journey workshop, into something visually meaningful –

    Higher Education Statistics Authority

    September 2016

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    HESA is the official source of data about UK universities and HE colleges.

    The Challenge

    The main challenge with HESA was understanding their products, services and offerings and translating them into a meaningful Information Architecture and taxonomy. The existing site was very confused,

    British Lung Foundation

    June 2016

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    The British Lung Foundation (BLF) provides a vital service to tens of thousands of people with lung conditions. Its new website is helping BLF to do that more effectively than ever and it is making it easier for supporters to help in dozens of different ways.

    Edinburgh University

    August 2015

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    The University of Edinburgh wanted to redesign the ‘customer facing’ level of it’s main content pages, and gradually roll out a redesign across a huge number of internal pages and micro-sites.

    The Challenge

    The main challenge was to create a design system that could be customised to allow different departments to create their own sense of identity whilst keeping a sense of overall consistency.

    Nestle Global Portal

    May 2015

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    A bespoke skin and component design system for an internal Nestlé SAP application.

    The Challenge

    Once and understanding of the SAP system was gained, the remainder of the challenge with this project was customising standard SAP tiles using meaning styles in a restricted sapce.

    AWID

    April 2015

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    AWID is an international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights. The site is primarily a portal of news and comment concerning the rights of women in developing countries.

    A bold new look for a developing brand refresh with an emphasis on collating third party content into a portal for Women in Development.

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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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