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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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Experiments in Pottermore chronology and taxonomy
When I was lucky enough to be working at Pottermore, there was a whole bunch of ‘fact checkers’ who knew the Harry Potter universe inside out, and when EW originally pitched to Pottermore Gus proposed and prototyped a ‘narrative engine’ for exploring the story. As a personal side project I thought it would be great to…
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Prince Regent Pub Sign
My local pub is the Prince Regent in Herne Hill, and now that its summer its lovely to sit outside and watch the world go by. It also seems to have the biggest pub sign I have ever seen, but it seems to have worn away. Being obsessed with halftone printing I was wondering what…
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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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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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Code is poetry
With a corporate bank there are many conflicting sources of design and creative direction. So having gathered the users needs, understood the sites objectives, discussed the functional specifications and content requirements the project has to navigate through the corporations design culture. This culture is always changing, like a river.
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Material Designs
Google has announced a new design language for Android’s UI design. Matias Duarte, the head of Android design at Google, talks through Android L design features, creating a new design language called Material. I have pulled out my highlights from his talk. The stand out was the trouble they had taken to create delightful animations to…
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Barclays Omake
This is a concept idea for making banking more engaging. I am using the idea of a points rewards system to reflect the users engagement with Barclays products and services. It may be possible to then associate these omake with a financial reward. Omake is japanese for extra, bonus, discount and I am using it…
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To all tomorrow’s parties
The article had a picture of a laptop on the floor in a room off old street near seren, where I worked. Also talking to design the team about computers and where they are going. What follows doesn’t make sense, but they are just notes. Collage of other peoples thoughts from the past. A hand-me-down dress from who…
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ABC Design Customer Journey Maps
Well where to begin. There appears to be a lot of these being worked on at the moment, and whilst they flex and change to meet each individual projects requirements do we really have a handle on what fundamentally makes a good customer journey map.
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