UX

• eCommerce design not as easy as you think

  29th July 2022

  As a designer and developer, I always want to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking about design for the web and eCommerce. It’s often put to me that a lot of eCommerce stores look the same and could in essence be selling anything as is the nature of how it looks and more […]

• Line Length

  10th November 2019

  If like me you have looked at many a website over the years, you will have seen sites and often still do where you see large amounts of text that span the entire page width. The problem with this is that is often very hard for the user to read as it’s not legible. It […]

• My pattern library and designing in the browser thingy

  23rd August 2019

  A year ago, a book changed my life. The book itself was not out yet but I was lucky enough to know the author and over time was able to see first hand what was going into it. The author was Andy Clarke and the book was Art Direction For The Web. It was around […]

• .Net and a design problem – Part 1

  14th September 2018

  A few months back, I was asked by .Net to take part in their design challenge. I was massively stoked to be asked but I decided that it wasn’t a good thing for me as I’d not really done much design at that time due to being solely just a front-end dev and I felt […]

• Prototyping – It’s pretty important

  4th April 2015

  In my opinion of course… I got really into prototyping a year or so ago. I was using software rather than making HTML versions but I saw the value early on as we tried to plan. I eventually moved on to working with HTML prototypes to demonstrate ideas and a bit later on after that, […]

• Workflow

  13th February 2014

  A while back, I ran a few interviews on workflow. I asked several people about how they go about doing what they do. The results were great. I got a lot from it and I understand that others did too. Now, as I have recently moved into UX, my workflow has changed obviously but it […]

• Wireframing and Axure

  11th February 2014

  A while back, I asked if people were interested in what I had been doing with wireframing and Axure. Well, a few late nights ago, I redid my website to make it a bit more user friendly. And when doing it, I did some work in Axure. I have done 5 breakpoints for this. 320, […]

• Three weeks in – Site Maps

  28th January 2014

  Well I’ve got my own project now. From scratch. Very excited and already a few days in, I am quite precious about it. The first task was to deliver a site map. Easy peasy you say. I’ll be honest, I thought that a while back but a while back, I’d never really had to do […]

• The difficult second week

  17th January 2014

  Well I made it. I managed a further week of UX. And what a week. To date, I’d looked at navicons, search components and a whole load of stuff from week one. This week was a mixed one with some great results. Labels One of my tasks this week was to look at buttons and […]

• First week in UX

  10th January 2014

  As you know, I’m now working in the UX department at the agency. I came in Monday like a kid on his first day in school. Packed lunch under my arm and a head full of wonder, excitement and doubt. What the hell was I thinking! I’d spent time over Christmas reading up but I […]