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Archive for ‘design’

How to fail with email

April 20, 2009

Have you ever tried to do something online, which you thought would be simple, to discover the task becomes unnecessarily hard? I’ve been trying to change my address on some emails I subscribe to and its mission impossible. continue reading

Designing doors - a simple open and shut case

February 13, 2009

How easy is it to design a door? If I gave you a pen and paper you could sketch one out now, right? So, if you had studied 7 years for a degree in architecture you’d have no problem creating the perfect door? Wrong. continue reading

Raising a glass to accessibility

January 22, 2009

For my first post of 2009 I thought I’d sit by a roaring fire, pour myself a glass of wine and mull over what looks likely to be one of the big web talking points of the year – designing for accessibility. continue reading

French designing apples

November 13, 2008

In a week where the EU has changed the much derided and misquoted legislation on shapes and sizes of fruit and vegetables, it made me think of the French influence on apples. Being the unashamed geek I am, my apple thoughts are more of the Mac type than the Golden Delicious variety. continue reading