charlie francis
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Building Barclays UX team
I was asked to turn around the UX team by Jo Brown (Director of Propositions and Development, Digital Banking) who asked me to move from Seren to join her at Barclays. It was the beginning of two or so years of very hard work, I wanted to build a confident team culture that allowed my…
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Responsive banking dashboard concept
The user’s dashboard should be an honest, fun, collaborative, conversational, engaging interface that lets the user control their money in the Ginkou bank. So that they feel that they have control of their finances. The bank is supporting them in achieving their goals in life with simple financial management. The dashboard represents a move away…
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a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney & Beaton
Everything about this photo is perfect, its absurdly English, because Hockney and Beaton are sort of english archetypes. It was taken by Peter Schlesinger and there is a great interview in the Guardian explaining how it came about. He describes it as, ‘I like the way their poses contrast – they’re doing different things yet…
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Space Oddity
Kathryn Thornton is repairing the Hubble telescope, I have cropped the square format of the image so the earth is no longer visible behind her, please check out the original. The full credit from the NASA Image Library is: This STS-61 onboard photo depicts Astronaut and mission specialist Kathryn Thornton performing the 2nd extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of…
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Evolving the user experience of a corporate website
Large corporate website are constantly changing. New products to promote, and new commercial goals. The users needs change from desktop to mobile, from mouse to touchscreen, from static to dynamic. An existing web site can begin to look tired, staid and incoherent. Over time each area of the site has created a solution unique to…
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The Peripheral
‘He seemed genuinely mild, amiable, but also singularly alert, in some skewed way, as if there were something else looking out, around corners, swift and peripheral….. And the peripheral thing was right there, peering around some inner angle, taking her measure.’ Zero History p.70 & 71 has become…
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Home Work + Office Work jacket
Years ago when Labour and Wait were in their old shop they stocked some surplus stock french workwear jackets. They always sold out instantly and it was good luck if you could nab one. I got a few. So began the endless search for the perfect, work+work jacket.
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Space Oddity
I don’t know where or when I first saw Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Project’ photo of ‘Clean room, Indian National Satellite Insat 4B, Arianespace, Guiana Space Center [CGS], Kourou, French Guiana, 2007’ but everything about it is perfect, the colours, the objects. The whole collection of photo’s are great, but the spartan clean rooms with their…
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![Vehicle Payload Canister Transporter, John F. Kennedy Space Center [NASA], Florida, U.S.A., 2011](https://chrlie.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/vincent_fournier-featured-image-1200x900-1.jpg)
