I’ve been on quite the journey over the last few weeks… …searching for the perfect CAPTCHA! You can read my findings over at Smashing Magazine – big thanks to the team for their support and guidance in writing this article – I’m still immensly honoured! It’s also been quite an eye-opener to the issues of accessibility. That’s [...]
Every so often I get the designers itch, Obviously, I’m referring to the need to redesign my whole website and personal identity. After realising how much time that would take (a lot) and how much time I have (none) I opt for a realign to fix some short comings of the old version. It also [...]
Back in August 2009 I made a vow never to use Lorem Ipsum again! Partly because I could recite more words of Lorem Ipsum than I could numbers of Pi, but mainly because I noticed it encouraged bad design habits and impeded feedback and discussion in client meetings. I don’t agree with some of my thoughts [...]
A wonderful package arrived on my desk this morning! It contained the CSS Awwwards book from The CSS Awards* honouring the best CSS Websites of 2010 – that’s a lot of CSS! I’m Mr July 9. It makes me happy but humbled, especially sat next to The Mid-Century Modernist – a site far more worthy of [...]
If you don’t follow my Design Heroes blog these are the links that I’ve found inspiring, useful or just plain funny over the last month! Foundation I watch and listen to a lot of podcasts but Foundation by Kevin Rose is one of the more exciting ones to appear recently. It’s all about web start-ups and [...]
Today I’m exceedingly happy :-D My article Bringing Interactivity To Your Website With Web Standards has just been published on Smashing Magazine, the biggest web design blog there is. I’m also half way through writing my second article. (Despite being immensely tired from slogging out up to 14 hours of work daily over the last fortnight [...]
This past month I’ve focused solely on the accessibility and usability of web design. I’ve spent a long time considering how this fits into my daily practice, for real clients and personal projects, and all the ideals, limitations and opportunities involved. In my article Transitioning as a Web Designer I sum up a very practical [...]