Journal

My very first business cards from moo.com! I love the contrast of warm grey and deep purple. I’m looking forward to getting my laser engraved ones soon.

Let’s look at nature as a metaphor to see how we can improve the creative output.

I’ve been working on fine tuning the Channel 4 online styleguide. The idea, is help ourselves to keep track of our online identity in all the small details that make up a website.

My aim was to make the 4oD links look like buttons (and therefore an visible action for the user), while reducing the amount of 4oD logos around the site.

Stuck in Stockholm with no where to go till this Wednesday. I’m here listening to this – as it reminds of Stockholm. The fresh air and the endless forest terrain spreading inwards.

It’s great when my mum uses the laptop as she is a non-stavy internet/computer person. So she clearly highlights some poor design decisions on the web and within applications. Someone like my mother wasn’t able to tell the difference and kept pressing the new tab button. As a consequence, was opening tab after tab. It [...]

Hierarchical linkage takes into account the position and importance of surrounding content.

Clockwise priority linkage takes into account the way a user will scan a piece of information – links are turned on (changed to the link colour) and placed accordingly.

One of the funniest pet stories I’ve ever read.

A beautiful song by Boards of Canada – emotionally captivating

Using my Nikon D700 and Nikkor 24-70mm. [nggallery id=12]

How happy was I when I discovered I was actually a camera before I came to life! :) It seems I’m destined for great photography achievements! Link to camera

Taken from my balcony when there were massive thunder storms in London. Using my Nikon D700 and Nikkor 24-70mm. [nggallery id=11]

Photos of planes in and around London – using my Nikon D700 and 24-700mm. [nggallery id=10]

Photos of North Greenwich – taken my Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 24-70mm.

View Google Visualisation code View YouTube video

Created these TV icons for a recent project. I thought I’d share them with everyone.

Photos of a Richmond Park without the sights of deer. Taken my Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 35mm lens and Canon 400D (with Canon EF-S 60mm Marco lens).

Photos of a windy rainy day in Brighton on my Canon 400D with my Canon EF-S 60mm Marco and Canon 18-55mm lenses. [nggallery id=7]

Using the traffic light methodology – where red is something that could be looked with caution, orange should be waited upon and green is of positive end result

Photos of a burnt-out MG car taken on my Canon 400D with my Canon EF-S 60mm Marco lens. [nggallery id=6]

This is simple and effective way to have buttons that scale (width-wise) without any weird browser-specific CSS (apart from IE6/7) or JavaScript implementations. Just using pure CSS goodness.

Its our task as the designer to find the middle ground; making sure we think ahead for the user, trying to find every possibility of how to easily resolve problems, as well as the future mutation of that problem.

I found this to be the best situation for embedding flash files and still having the page validate as XHTML

What do we classify as Human Computer Interaction (HCI)? And how will understanding this topic make us better designers? Just some of the questions I hope to answer…

Photos all around Stockholm taken on my Canon 400D with my Canon EF-S 60mm Marco lens. [nggallery id=2]

The truly wonderful Winter Wonderland in Hype Park taken on my Canon 400D with my Canon EF-S 60mm Marco lens. [nggallery id=4]

How to write good HTML table code with XTHML strict guidelines.

Photos all around Stockholm taken on my Canon 400D. [nggallery id=3]

Icons that should be used in forms to let the user know the outcome.

Shots around Harrow on the Hill taken on my Sony P90. [nggallery id=1]