UX/Design

Design and the User Experience in web and mobile projects. Theories, best practices ideas and inspirations

Project: Social voting with Chopsumi

Chopsumi.com is a new online tool for easily organising your friends and improving your social life. The problem that Chopsumi solves is pinning down as many of your friends as possible to a specific date and location for your event. Previously this was achieved via long email discussions and a lot of work on by [...]

Also posted in 2012, Featured, product management, Projects | | Leave a comment

Project: MyCareer.com.au 1024px redesign

The MyCareer.com.au web site was originally built when 800×600 was the most common browser size. By December 2006, an expansion of the site to a wider aspect was needed. The business case was predominantly to cater for standardised ad sizes, specifically a Leaderboard in the header area and 300px columns to suit medium-rectangle sizes. However [...]

Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites | | Leave a comment

House swap travel sites

The client brief for this House Swap Holidays was for it to feel Australian but not overly ‘ocker’ or stereotypical/cringeworthy. Virgin Blue was cited as a good starting point – a little bit cheeky but ‘modern’.

Also posted in 2009, Code, Featured, web sites | | Leave a comment

smh.com.au redesign 2007

The revamp of the smh.com.au was a task that the Fairfax Media Creative Services Unit was asked to undertake in mid 2007.

Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites | | Leave a comment

Good Food Guides 2011

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Good Food Guides are the Michelin Guides of Australia. If you are into food then you have these on your shelf and consult them regularly. If you work in the restaurant industry then you await their publication each year with a sense of foreboding or giddy hope that [...]

Also posted in 2010, Code, CSS, Featured, web sites | | Leave a comment

Hippo.com.au redesign

Hippo.com.au is a youth focused employment site that was launched in 2005. Like other players in the market it’s fortunes took a hit towards the end of 2008 as the GFC hit and many employers took a risk averse approach to hiring.

Also posted in 2010, Code, consulting, CSS, Featured, SEO, web design advice, web sites | | Leave a comment

Balancing opinions and data in User Experience design

User Experience (UX) is where I spend most of my time in web and mobile development. Designing/Creating/Architecting/Planning the product all involves working on how the user will experience the product.

Also posted in consulting | | Leave a comment

Android CSS background image blurriness

Recently I completed some UI intensive work for a client that was designed for smart-phones. The project was targeted at iPhone and Android users primarily and being web based, made heavy use of CSS3 and HTML5 to achieve the desired highly graphical user interface. During the course of the project we noticed that some Android [...]

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