Digital strategist that writes about online strategy, user experience, design and web marketing. You can read about me, contact me or follow me.
The “Stanley Kubrick: Taming Light” website was launched last week. The exhibition runs until October 31st in the Lighthouse cinema. I was asked to design and develop the site, in keeping with Kubrick’s taste and style. (more…)
*Canux is the Canadian user experience workshop that is hosted by nForm.
My name is Niamh Redmond. I’m from Dublin, Ireland. On December 28th 2009, I am moving to Vancouver, Canada. At the end of 2008, I made a number of tough decisions. I decided to resign from my job, to reassess my career direction and to begin the process of applying for a Canadian visa. It wasn’t easy to do and I struggled with defining what path I wanted to take in my career and where I wanted to go in order to gain more experience. Each option that I considered kept coming back to a common theme – creating a great user experience.
I really like this simple but elegantly designed site copypastecharacter.com (⌘C ⌘V Character) by Martin Ström and Konst & Teknik, a graphic design office based in Stockholm, Sweden, that deals with “art, technology and things in between”.
I have been featured in Smashing Magazine’s latest article “How To Create A Great Web Design CV and Résumé” by Kat Neville of safetygoat.
Kat devised a CV design challenge/ competition in which ten Web designers had to design the same résumé in only a few hours. Each designer had to translate a fictional character, Steve Stevenson’s work experience, education and interests into their own unique style. A summary of good tips for Web designer résumés is featured at the end of the article. If you’re interested in taking the challenge yourself, visit misterstevenson.com for all the rules each of the designers followed and the chance to add your own entry.
If you are interested in learning about my design methodology, please continue reading below.
While checking my personal e-mail on Yahoo! today (another) flash overlay advertisement disrupted the simple task that I was trying to do. Sure, this happens now and again but what was different about this one? Well, when I clicked on the ‘close’ button it opened the link to the product that was being advertised in another tab. So, I closed that and clicked ‘close’ again, thinking that I must have made an error and have missed clicking the ‘close’ button the first time (I was clicking ‘close’ quickly in frustration afterall). But no, it did exactly the same thing. While I’m not a fan of pop-up flash advertisements that cause me to be distracted from what I was originally doing, when I click close, I expect the ad to actually close! (more…)
