Design
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Don’t look back in anger
One of my old colleagues from the Barclays design team recently posted this on linked in, made me realise how lucky I was to manage such a lovely group of people. Couldn’t resist a silly comment.
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Esoteric UX
esoteric/ˌɛsəˈtɛrɪk,ˌiːsəˈtɛrɪk/adjective As a side project I was experimenting with the idea of how the language and processes of digital multimedia design have become more esoteric as it has become more specialised.
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Phase Three Service Design. Mash up Tools?
Thinking about Designing Platforms We are all designing complex digital platforms, in a harsh environment, with a large number of stakeholders and contributors. How are the tools that we have evolving to meet our needs? Do your tools change as your project evolves or are you stuck with the same customer journey map through out…
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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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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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Ideal Mix – thoughts on the UX design process
Introduction The explosion of management theory in the 1990’s as pointed out in ‘One market under God’ by Thomas Frank, has created a situation where every one has a better theory than the previous person. This makes me nervous about writing a few posts about UX processes. So I don’t want them to be too…
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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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Visual Analysis 1924
Nearly a hundred years ago, from 1924 to 1927, Kazimir Malevich was using charts to explore art styles, movements and techniques. When I saw the charts at his Tate modern retrospective in 2014 they reminded me of so much of my professional work. Where rather than trying to create understanding through words and reports, as…
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