Design

Indifferent government is so last decade

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Steph

Public Strategist is on a nostalgia trip this afternoon: He’s dug out a nice chart from a decade ago, outlining four potential future scenarios for digitally-enabled government (though in those days, we used to call it things like E-commerce@its.best.uk [PDF]). … Continue reading →

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24tips: build a mobile version of your site

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Steph

24 Dec: in the rush to build apps for everything, it’s easy to lose sight of the easier, simpler and cheaper approach to making your content accessible to mobile users: a mobile version of your site. Huh – isn’t that … Continue reading →

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24tips: filler text for realistic layouts

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Steph

23 Dec: if you’re in the business of mocking up sites or designs for other people to comment on, you’ll have encountered the challenge of making a layout look realistic without having much content to play with. The conventional approach … Continue reading →

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24tips: lo-fidelity wireframing

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Steph

20 Dec: the biggest challenge in a web project is getting everyone’s expectations in roughly the same place. The big boss thinks it will engage thousands (but is actually happy with it looking shiny), the (internal) client says it needs … Continue reading →

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24tips: annotating a web site

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Steph

4 Dec: Need to discuss website layout tweaks or pet hates with someone you don’t sit next to? Here’s a nice, no-nonsense little app: MarkUp MarkUp gives you a little bookmarklet to drag your browser bar which, when clicked, opens … Continue reading →

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Stimulating informed debate around AV

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Steph

Six weeks ago, Dave Briggs kicked off a little project which he described as follows: I’m rather interested in the referendum that we are going get get next May in the UK about changing our voting system. It occurs to … Continue reading →

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Newsroom: the backstory

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Steph

Cast your mind back if you will to chilly February, amid the growing crescendo/death spiral of pre-election communications. Neil and his team were finishing off the new corporate website, having shunned friends and family for weekends on end. A member … Continue reading →

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A Load of Cobblers: my tumblog on the favourite tools I use

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Steph

Just a quick one to flag for readers who get my stuff by RSS that I’ve got a parallel tumblog alongside this main blog, which I use to post up quick reviews of tools that I like for web work. … Continue reading →

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Corporate homepage design: who’s doing it right?

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Steph

Recently, I’ve been grappling with the issue of what a corporate homepage should do. Obviously, a lot of what I do is central government-oriented but in this case I’ve been casting the net quite wide, as the interface design problems … Continue reading →

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