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Pop chimney pots
When I was adding a new storey to my house, I was required by the council to keep my chimneys, as we are in a conservation area. Even though there are no chimney breasts in the house now. So, I thought the least I could do was cheer up the roof scape on the street…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pastel Dystopia
Not good bad Place is how my google search defined dystopia. Having just finished reading Dave Egers ‘The Circle’ and watched ‘her’ with Joaquín Phoenix, it seems that we are going to be over run with an appealing, useful, ubiquitous, user experience, which masks a more threatening reality. Seems rather sad.
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