Category Archives: Digital design

Why I left the London digital design agency world and joined Capgemini’s UX team

I’ve just been watching a video of David Reed, a Principal Consultant for Capgemini Consulting, talking about his first 100 days with Capgemini and it made me think about why I, as a creative person, made the move to join… Read the rest of this article.

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Published April 5th, 2012 in Digital design, Personal, User experience | No Comments »
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How to create a professional website using WordPress as a non-digital Graphic Designer

On Twitter, a talented graphic designer I know recently asked how he could learn HTML code so he could become a digital designer (as in digital art director/UX designer rather than a digital artworker/template designer/frontend developer).
While knowing HTML has… Read the rest of this article.

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Published March 27th, 2012 in Digital design | 3 Comments »
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Designing a website without designing a website

I have been a professional web designer since 1998 and can design and built the user interface of websites by myself. So historically I have done porfolios of static HTML pages based around the visual design with few PHP coding… Read the rest of this article.

Published September 13th, 2011 in Digital design, Typography | 3 Comments »
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Secret web design tip no. 11: Listening to the client

There are loads of good guides and top 10 lists for digital designers out there. Most of them are generic and do not contain a personal view from the author which is a good thing for theoretical learning material.
But… Read the rest of this article.

Published March 14th, 2011 in Digital design | 4 Comments »
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Photoshop will kill your creativity

In recent months I have come across several non-connected people complaining about Photoshop in relations to designing website. My answer is always the same:
Photoshop is just a tool. If you rely on a single tool you are dependant on… Read the rest of this article.

Published February 28th, 2011 in Digital design | 1 Comment »
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A couple of my old Christmas Flash games

I don’t really do Flash actionscripting anymore but here are a couple of old Christmas I have created in the past. Enjoy:… Read the rest of this article.

Published December 9th, 2010 in Digital design, Personal | No Comments »
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The Citizen Designer

Lately I have been thinking about The Citizen Designer and after hearing the great talk by Emma Jenkins at last night’s Digital Lounge I decided to write my thoughts down.

“What? How many thousand pounds for a website? My neighbour’s… Read the rest of this article.

Published October 28th, 2010 in Digital design, Social media, User experience | No Comments »
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The self-concious website

First we had websites built of flat html pages (those were the days). Then we had dynamic, database driven sites.
Now we have adaptive sites to suit our personal profiles giving us tailored web experience base on our previous interaction… Read the rest of this article.

Published October 24th, 2010 in Digital design | No Comments »
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The practical eco system around a WordPress blog

Update: 27/09/2010:
I have added the Autocompleter plugin to the list.
So you’ve finally decided to make a blog. You’ve read all the good articles on how to write interesting posts, how to behave to rude posts and how to… Read the rest of this article.

Published July 5th, 2010 in Digital design | 2 Comments »
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Are you a lazy web designer?

I’ve been wanting to write this article for quite a while. In fact I think the concept of the lazy web designer first hit me while working at Fortune Cookie some 5 years ago.
Once upon a time there was… Read the rest of this article.

Published June 17th, 2010 in Digital design | 4 Comments »
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