interface design
Old Skool is No Fool
Hand-drawn wireframes for the major re-architecting of LMFM - Click for full version
Sometimes it’s really refreshing to go ‘undigital’ as it were, and really get back to basics. So, since we are looking at doing a major overhaul of the livemusic.fm IA and user interface, I thought it justified getting out the old A3 flip pad, some markers and a ton of mini Post It notes.
Delivering Cleantech solutions made child’s play
Semplice CleanTech Website - Click to View Fullscreen
Launched in mid-May this was a recent project for Semplice, a Cleantech based consultancy now fully owned by Centrica (British Gas). As is becoming customary on projects that I art direct, there is a susbtsantial rich media component right up front that showcases Semplices Services and their part in the cleantech ‘revolution’ and allows users to “deep-link” to areas of interest throughout the site.
A&O Graduate wins its first award
Allen & Overy Graduate Recruitment Website - Click Image for Fullscreen
Well hopefully this will be the first of many – we’ve entered it for a Webby (after getting an Honoree status in 2007) and will prolly enter it for a BIMA later this year. The TARGET graduate awards will also be a stepping stone (again the site as nominated in 2007 but lost out to Clifford Chance). Anyway so far so good – one Graduate award in the bag, The Lawyer HR awards:
Future Camden
Future Camden Streetscene - 5 years to 100 years from today
A sneak preview of the ‘Future Camden’ work we are doing with Smokefree Camden … images courtesy of Mr Alan Benzie (with some interference and direction from myself!)
Cineworld
Cineworld Homepage showing December 2008 Movies
Well it’s been up and running for a week or so now and the feedback is pretty good. I have to confess I didn’t have an awful lot to do with this project and most of my involvement was the user flow and IA of the QuickBook system which works pretty well – though it seems that my recommendation of prefixing the London Cinemas with ‘London’ tag has been ignored!
Wayfinding & Signposting in interface design
digital image header for teara.govt.nz - after Rosalie Gascoigne
“You have to lead them by the hand – It’s not the number of clicks, it’s the confidence level that you’re still headed in the right direction”
Steve Krug “Don’t make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability”
Best-practice involves making navigation and interaction as simple and logical as possible for the user. This is neatly summarized by the concept of ‘wayfinding’ – an alternative and more natural approach to what is normally captured under the heading of “Information Architecture”.
DeFusion
Now I’ve finally got Wordpress working I am using the deFusion template. This was far and away the best of the free templates and thanks to Webdemar for the original (and even a few support issues of how to get WordPress working properly!) You can go and download this, and a few other clean, well designed and easily customisable themes at:
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