The point is to enable designers to make better decisions about typography, for a more readable web experience.
What minimum text size should be used on the web? If you work in digital design you probably have some sort of answer in mind. Maybe you have a preferred size for readability, and a lower limit you won't drop below. Perhaps you remember the WCAG…
I've probably used the train more times in the past six months than in the previous 6 years combined. A frequent source of irritation is the poor design of the handful of credit-card sized tickets issued forth by the self-service machine
This is something I've been trying out recently, and I thought it might be nice to share it and see if anyone else finds it useful. It's still something of a work-in-progress, but I think the approach outlined below has the potential to speed up workflow
A few times over the past month or so I've been asked for advice of a DIY related nature. This has coincided with my undertaking a fairly substantial bit of work on our house, and I've suddenly become aware that I'm no longer nervous of what horrors may…
I hesitated a bit before beginning this blog post for fear that this is actually something that designers everywhere do all of the time, and I'll look like a feckless idiot
Had a great time yesterday morning watching someone clever tune my car on a rolling road. I spent quite a lot of time last year building a new engine for my 1973 MGBGT. Obviously not 'new' new, but rebored, reground, ported, balanced, timed and generally
Earlier this year I wrote a blog entry for the Auros site about how the UX analysis for a particular project had provided inspiration for the visual design that was to follow. A current project has given me cause to think about this further, and to try to
I love cars. And I love fast, too. Fast and cars, together, in harmony. LIke 'hot' and 'chocolate'. LOVELY. But there's a problem: modern cars are too fast. Too fast to enjoy in (relative) safety, and too fast for the powers that be not to notice…
This has been cross-posted with the Auros blog I did a bit of vector illustration for the new Pituitary Foundation website, which went live very recently. In fact I did more than you can see on the site, as we ended up not using all of it. I've been…
Dear Tesco, I'd like to offer you some free consultancy to help you improve the usability of your stores, and in doing so improve the customer experience. If you don't want to take advantage of this fabulous offer, it would probably be best to…
I recently changed energy providers. Not an especially interesting revelation I admit: why would anyone else care whose logo is at the top of my electricity and gas bills? But I'd say that the reason for changing provider is interesting, because this is…
There is a problem that I think most designers encounter at some time or another, and I have unilaterally decided to call it Design by Homeopathy. You deliver a strong design - something memorable, hopefully, and with a bit of character. You take this…
I've recently been reading a fairly lightweight, factual book on our Kindle. It's probably been about six months since I've done this, as my wife has had sole custody of the thing for an age, apparently reading Agatha Christie's entire back-catalogue…
I haven't written a new post for this blog since April 16th. This is because I've decided to spend a few months in a state of near-delirium due to sleep loss, punctuated by brief periods covered in someone elses puke / wee / poo. As a result of this…
I have recently acquired a new gadget, an apparently simple device for the conversion of breast milk into kinetic energy, sound and poo. What has become apparent over the past three weeks is how poorly designed this device is from a usability…
It has recently come to my attention that my previous post could have given the impression that I was referring to the type of false simplicity found in such devices as software 'wizards'. As an addendum to the previous post, I feel I should clarify this…
When designing a user path through a specific process (and by that I mean the completion of a task such as buying something, doing a search, completing a form etc), it is always going to be tricky to find the correct balance point between a speedy…
One of my favourite automotive whinges is the seemingly ever-increasing size and weight of new cars. With a few notable exceptions (the Mazda 2 and Chevrolet Corvette spring to mind), each new car is always slightly bigger and slightly heavier than the…
Things are looking quite busy over the coming weeks at work, which is great, given how variable the demand for creative design can be from our client base. I find it can be quite helpful, creatively, to have a stack of jobs lined up into the foreseeable…