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Life as a consultant « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. November 2, 2009. Life as a consultant. I’ve just finished my first 2 months working as a consultant. On 1st September 2009 I started work at EMC Consulting, the number 2 digital agency in the UK (according to the NMA top 100 list. Life as a consultant definitely seems different to working in an agency. I’ve jotted down a few of the differences here. There’s no messing around you have to be delivering the goods from day one. 1 Working on-site with clients. The model ...
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I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. July 9, 2008. Structuring my presence on the web. I’ve realised that I’d like to have more on my website than just information architecture resources. Which leads me to wonder what the best way to structure my site is. I’ve started to think about resurrecting my old site that died about a year ago. Do I integrate the two sites or have 2 separate ‘sister’ sites? In the past I’ve always just had one site, and I started. Into Sainsbury.org as a site section? The downsid...
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Raison d’être « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. May 30, 2008. So this is my first post…. I’m not sure what this site will develop in to – if anything (useful). But I’ve created it because I think it’s important to share ideas relating to making and planning web sites. Information architecture is such a new and evolving discipline, I wanted to get involved in the community to let other know what it is to me, and to find out what it is to them. So on these pages I intend to share ideas on:. Share practical and techi...
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The user experience of a toilet on South West Trains « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. July 24, 2008. The user experience of a toilet on South West Trains. Whitney Hess’s recent post about the user experience of a staircase. Reminded me that user experience design is everywhere and affects us everyday. Don Norman’s seminal work The design of everyday things. Analyses the design of many objects, such as telephones and doors. I came across this terrible design recently and had to share it here. There are rarely instructional signs or notices in a restroo...
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Good books « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 16, 2008. Two books that have changed the way I look at design. The design of everyday things. This has to come first in my book recommendations because for me it is an absolutely seminal work. It will totally change the way you look at the world and how it is designed. You will start to look at products you can’t use easily or don’t understand and wonder. Although this book does not deal specifically with digital products, the ideas and concepts apply universal...
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The stupidity of rel=nofollow « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 16, 2008. The stupidity of rel=nofollow. I am truly baffled by the existence of the rel=nofollow attribute on wordpress comments. Even more so by that fact that it is enabled by default, and can only be disabled by installing a plugin. A human user can see the comment links between one blog and another, so why shouldn’t google? The idea of using rel=nofollow to reduce the amount of comment spam seems totally outdated and not useful in any way. Akismet. Community...
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Wireframes are simply facilitators for discussion « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 16, 2008. Wireframes are simply facilitators for discussion. The title of this article should really be:. Documentation is simply a facilitator for discussions. And the key point is this: in a web project we’re all (as a team) trying to develop a set of complex. About what this product will be and how it will work. As long as the IA documentation helps us do this in the most effective way, that is all that matters. I have no problem with people creating interact...
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The user experience of the World Cup « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 18, 2010. The user experience of the World Cup. England v Algeria gets underway in Cape Town. As I write this I’m coming to the end of a great week in South Africa where I’ve been watching the World Cup in Cape Town. It’s occurred to me that the World Cup is so successful because it gets the basics right and is so well organised. Here I’ve decided to share a few of the aspects I think are particularly important. The initial ticket sales take place in an online l...
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Minimal Monkey - Hello my name is Stephen Burgess
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Hello my name is Stephen Burgess. I am a Developer from England, currently based in San Francisco. I earn my bread with HTML, CSS and JavaScript development but I'll happily play around with any language and have a passion for learning new things. I really like SASS, monkeys and Arsenal Football Club. There's plenty of ways to get in touch with me. You can message me on Twitter, connect with me on LinkedIn or write me an Internet letter. During this time one of the designers at Fi, Tobias van Schnieder.
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