User Experience Sod the users, full screen ads work! As I was scrolling through my twitter feed, I came across a tweet from CreativeBloq sharing an article, which I thought I'd give a quick glance. After a short delay, my entire browser window was taken over by an ad. I brought this up
User Experience UX crash course Found a useful resource on my travels through the world of Twitter this afternoon. The author describes the motivation behind the idea: My New Year’s Resolution for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. I posted one lesson
User Experience User Experience is... User Experience is the responsibility of every member of the organization; it is a central philosophy, shared principles. It is not a series of activities and deliverables to perform, but an enlightened way of being. I found this paragraph of text particularly interesting but
User Experience Thinking beyond the web A couple of things has shaped the way I approach projects recently. Discussing design with Tim over beers has shed light on a better design process. And seeing Aral Balkan speak at Wuthering Bytes last month has started to change my outlook on the
Apps Build anticipation. Deflate. My twitter stream has been going a bit wild with updates about the launch of, and subsequent delay in use, of the new Mailbox app on iPhone. There seems to be a mix of anticipation and "meh" over their chosen roll-out method
Web Design Remember the context While I've been applying media queries to projects for a couple of years now, I'm still learning new tricks and discovering things that I've not really thought of before. One of these discoveries happened recently while working on a new project... I sketched out
User Experience Just a thought Like many people, I use my iPhone all day every day. I use various apps for various jobs and on occasion I like to share certain bits of information on a social network like Twitter or Facebook. There's one thing about sharing on iPhone
User Experience Sainsbury's missing a trick? This morning I went to my local Sainsbury's to pick up a few ingredients for a birthday meal I'm cooking for Luisa. I wandered around with my shopping list and picked up what I could find. After my shopping trip, whilst eating my breakfast