charlie francis
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St Judes school logo
Both my daughters have been very lucky to go to St Judes Primary School which is just one street away from my house. When the school announced they were looking to redesign their school logo, I think we all felt I should offer to help.
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Different interfaces for displaying corporate and personal data
Energized Work were hired by EY to help develop and improve their existing Mobility service. Create a flexible mobility platform, which would allow companies to easily move their people to different international locations, keep up with countries regulations and laws, and create accurate reporting and oversight for the parent company.
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Animals without Backbones
I came across this book cover a while ago, and thought it would be a great image to send to some one as an insult. But I got over that and in putting this collage together have been amazed by the wonderful work of the books illustrator Elizabeth Mabel Buchsbaum who was the sister of…
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Space Oddity
Thinking about branding at the moment and was reminded of this great photo of painting Atlantis name onto the space shuttles wing. Back when NASA was still using the ‘worm logotype’. Unit editions have printed the guidelines in their ‘Manual 1 Design & Identity Guidelines.’ NASA have also shared the guidelines here.
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Alex’s wedding speech
On 23rd July 2016 my dear friend Alex Milton was the lucky man who married the wonderful Suzanne Martin. Alex very kindly asked me to be his best man. I had used the Newspaper club to print a pamphlet for my wedding, and so felt I should create a similar experience for Alex as part…
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Magile Pottermore
prounounced : madʒʌɪl late Middle English: via French from Latin agilis, from agere ‘do’, and from Old French magique, from Latin magicus (adjective), late Latin magica (noun), from Greek magikē (tekhnē) ‘(art of) a magus’: magi were regarded as magicians.
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Service Design at Pottermore
Pottermore had an established set of personas for their users, the challenge was to bring them to life for the management team. The easiest way was to combine personas with actual customer data, so we could work out where the pain points where for various tasks the users wanted to complete. At the time I was reading,…
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Do-it-yourself usability testing
I wanted to improve the Pottermore website, in terms of its usability. With a very crowded publishing schedule, there was always something new to publish or promote, so there wasn’t a regular testing process. I asked some neighbours and friends if they would participate in some informal testing. I based my test around Steve Krug’s…
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Transformer
Diamond dogs …with kill appeal, Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the Ditch, just another future song, lonely little kitsch. Gala Mitchell and Ernie Thormahlen dressed up by Anthony Price, whilst David Bowie sits in one of his suits. David Bowie and Mick Ronson produced the album. everything transformed…
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