2010
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Design Principles
I’ve been thinking about redesigning this website for the last six months, but haven’t been able to find a strategy for making these changes happen. To keep this project on course, I’ve defined a set of design principles.
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Styleguides for the Web
Clearly communicating the fundamental aspects of your design at the different stages of a project can help you better communicate with clients, developers and your peers, ensuring your vision doesn’t get lost in the transformation from static comp to dynamic ever changing website.
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iWant
I’ve recently felt frustrated and annoyed as once again friends and colleagues open their wallets and buy the latest product unveiled by Steve Jobs.
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SXSW: Greener is Better
I’ve decided to attend next years SXSW Interactive festival followed by a tour of North America. The details of where I’ll be visiting and for how long remain undecided, but I imagine my itinerary will be varied and involve much travelling by train.
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Purge
A number of half-written posts have remained on my hard drive for so long that their incompleteness only serves to annoy me. So I’ve salvaged the pertinent bits and published them here.
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Enough: A Counter Argument
A few months ago I wrote about not upgrading to the iPhone 4, regardless of the fact I’m eligible for a free upgrade. This turned out to be something of a radical position but I enjoyed the debate that followed.
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Thoughts on the BBC News Redesign
There is often talk of there being no landmark design on the web, but I suggest it won’t be long before BBC News is considered one of the greatest design icons online today.
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A Greener Conference Badge for dConstruct
dConstruct has long combined its conference programme with the name badge, a simple yet cost-effective design. This year we hope to go one better.
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Are Web Design Conferences Becoming Too Safe?
Earlier this week, Simon Collison revealed the first fruits of his newly established private entrepreneurship. ‘New Adventures In Web Design’ is an affordable one-day conference landing in Nottingham on 20th January 2011.
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A New Library for Birmingham
Architecture has never been kind to Birmingham, but then Birmingham has never been kind to its architecture.
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Enough
I can wait another year before upgrading my iPhone 3G.
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Winning the World Cup Would Be the Worst Thing to Happen to English Football
Winning this year’s World Cup in South Africa would see a nation collectively paper over the cracks fast appearing in our national game, and delay the radical reform desperately needed in the sport.
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Four Hundred & Twenty-Nine Pounds
As the masses on Twitter congratulate themselves on their latest technology purchase, I feel strangely removed from all the excitement.
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Learning to Sketch
With Dave Gray speaking at this year’s UX London, Andy asked if he would then visit Brighton and run a sketching workshop for everyone at Clearleft.
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An Opportunity For Change
As an era of Labour government led by Gordon Brown surely comes to an end, I reflect on my changing political attitudes and the decision I’ll be making at the ballot box this coming Thursday.
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Social Media Icons: A Rationale
I’ve finally released the long awaited update to my popular social media icon set adding 12 new icons and a few design tweaks for good measure.
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Green My South By
Once again, I feel the duty falls upon me to remind those attending this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, that you really need not pick up that big, heavy, cumbersome and frankly useless bag of marketing junk.
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A Green Focus
I ended my review of 2009 promising to write more about green issues and how I plan to lessen my impact on the environment. Now I expand on those ideas further.
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A New Visual Design Language for BBC Online
I’m a huge supporter of the BBC, yet for many years I was unimpressed with much of it’s online output, where inconsistent design and poor implementation reflected badly upon one of our country’s greatest institutions.
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Logo Spotting
My love of detail is often reaffirmed by my noticing the almost inconsiderable tweaks in the designed environment around me.
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2009 in Review
Holiday and illness means this is the latest I’ve got round to writing a yearly review. Whilst today is possibly the latest I can get away with such a post, I still think it’s important to reflect on the achievements of the previous twelve months.
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Magical Melbourne
After two and a half weeks exploring various cities, it was finally on to Melbourne, and the final stop on my short tour of Australasia.
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Celebrating the New Year in Sydney
Since visiting Sydney in 2003 I’ve been longing to return. In the intervening years I’ve visited more cities and for a time considered Chicago to be my new favourite—understandable given my love of architecture. As I flew over Sydney Harbour I quickly realised I was wrong.
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Absolutely, Positively, Wellington
From Nelson I reluctantly headed back to Wellington, cursing myself for not having an itinerary that continued south. However, Wellington will remain the most memorable city of this trip, although perhaps not entirely for the right reasons.
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A Small Taste Of The South Island
Having arranged my flights into and out of New Zealand before I had decided upon a full itinerary—departing from Wellington rather than an airport further south—meant I had little time to really explore the South Island.
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Auckland: A City In Search Of Itself
Before the tan disappears I’d like to record my short journey across New Zealand and Australia. There is much to say, so over the next few days, I shall try to describe how I ended the previous decade down-under.
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My LA Ex
I hoped that almost missing my flight would be the worst my trip to New Zealand would have to offer, but thanks to overzealous immigration officials at LAX, that was nothing but a minor blip.