My Stuff Widgets
March 2nd, 2007
March 2nd, 2007
February 2nd, 2007
January 9th, 2007
I have been coding up the latest My Stuff design. It offers more of an understanding of the user-experience than my graphic design files but it does not interface with any back-end magic like databases and things like that. You can click from place to place. Somethings are more realised than others. This will become […]
December 9th, 2006
The OU science faculty have a brand new website courtesy of Green Cathedral.
December 8th, 2006
Imagining that sometime soon the OU web colour pallette might be revised, improved and made more accessible, I’ve been playing with colour schemes using Adobe’s fantastic Kuler web app. Here I can select an OU brand colour and generate sympathic colours schemes from it. I then use a little artistic license to get semi-accessible colours […]
December 8th, 2006
Here’s a first stab at a “new thing” screen for My Stuff. Please ignore the unofficial design at the top of the image! Big version. I click ‘add a new thing’ from my My Stuff homepage. I arrive at this screen. I can then quickly create something non specific using the form on the left […]
December 7th, 2006
One of the features of the “My Stuff” eportfolio is the ability to ‘tag’ items put into the application. A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied […]
December 6th, 2006
…is no small task! Big version This retains the warmth from the yellow but feels a little washed out to me. The limited colours available in the OU brand pallette really restrict the designs you can create if you need to be accessible. But I’ve been having a go. Big version This moves more into […]
November 16th, 2006
What’s with all the faceless cartoon characters I’m seeing in designs lately? The Magic Numbers and Bjorn Again are two examples but there are many more. People too lazy to add features? It would seem not. For Stephen’s latest project, Ultragloss, the client was very clear to specify on no uncertain terms should the characters […]
November 14th, 2006
Web Design is 95% Typography “Our medium is very tricky. Even though we design for the screen: Websites have nothing to do with TV. That is as true for this website, as for yours or for YouTube. Even though we can choose among millions of colors, it’s not art, what we do, it is pro […]