The personal disquiet of
We have to start somewhere. Something has to come first. In 2001, I started working for the BBC in Cardiff. I worked alongside journalists and project managers for four years on all manner of web sites and applications; ranging from … Continue reading
I’m very excited to be running a Bootcamp again for UX Bootcamps in April next year. This year, it was great fun working alongside some talented UX-ers up their graphic design skills. And, considerable progress was made in just two days.
Alongside th… Continue reading
My friend Andy Rutledge runs a weekly video podcast called The Design Pro Show in which he talks through his take — as a ‘Design Professional’ (in quotes because it’s a thing) — on a number of subjects; from ‘Process‘, … Continue reading
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) on her show on 5by5: A Web Ahead..
For a whole 100 minutes (!) I harped on about responsive design, grids, design process, news, advertising and a few other things. Despite my dodgy sore th… Continue reading
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. What a presumptuous statement. How do you know how long it will take me? Do you know my first language isn’t English? Do you know that have learning difficulties? Do you know I’m sitting in … Continue reading
Recently at Mark Boulton Design, we’ve been working on a redesign of the global visual language for a large sports network. Like many web sites delivering news and editorial content, they rely on advertising for their revenue — either through … Continue reading
We all know that Spec work is bad. I’ve written about it here before. There are professional organisations that have official codes of conduct on the subject. Industry campaigns continue to educate ill-advised clients, yet the more I’m in the … Continue reading
Jason Santa Maria – the talented bastard – goes and redesigns his site and serves up a masterclass in understated elegance. The subtleties here are sublime. Look, absorb, learn.
Interestingly, Jason states one of the reasons he redesigned this … Continue reading
Off the back of this article in Net Magazine last week, and the subsequent few tweets popping up in my stream, I’ve finally managed (in no small part from the help of Nathan and Alex) to pull together some of … Continue reading
Recently, in our industry, I’ve noticed a disturbing increase of the term ‘Visual Design’. It’s often used to describe a job title, or a step in a UX design process; ‘we’ve done the strategy, the product definition, the prototyping… now, … Continue reading
As of a couple of weeks ago, Mark Boulton Design — together with Content Strategist, Relly Annett-Baker of Supernice Studios — have been tasked with redesigning CERN’s public-facing website, and the organisation’s intranet. Most importantly, we’re helping CERN tell the … Continue reading
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