Archives for the "Inspiration" category
April 1st 2010
I’ve just finished the biggest slog on our current main project, namely the ExpressionEngine CMS development for the redesign of Yogacampus.com. Before that I worked on the user profiling, research & specification and the information architecture, so I’ve been pretty much go go go since we started this project in the new year.
We ran this project a little differently than we’ve done in the past though, so the visual design and front-end development has yet to be finished. It’s worked really well so far actually: we skipped wireframes and went from page descriptions to developing a dynamic ‘prototype’ while we worked on a brand refresh at the same time.
But ever since the pressure came off from meeting my deadline I’ve found myself unfocused, impatient and irritable. I now have a much freer schedule which seems like a great opportunity get on with some of those ‘odd job’ or ‘rainy day’ tasks that are cluttering up my Omnifocus. Or I could be sorting through boxes of our stuff that needs to be shifted into storage in a month when we head off on our North American Adventure. But I am struggling to do any of these things. I’m certainly lacking enthusiasm even when I do get stuff done.
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August 23rd 2009
Working from home, 5 miles from central London, I can get really lazy. I can’t be bothered to go into ‘town’ so I end up missing what is arguably the whole point of living in London. The exhibitions, the galleries, the shows. It’s usually when a friend comes to visit that I am forced out of my little Hackney bubble to check out whatever it is they fancy seeing. And then I find myself wondering why the hell I don’t do this more often.
So I was pleased when my old art school chum Digger came down from Glasgow recently, cos we went and did some culture.
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May 20th 2009
Having caught my attention with the inclusion of an Expression Engine workshop presented by none other than Jamie Pittock of Erskine Design (one of the first UK companies to use EE on high profile client work), I decided to treat myself to a ticket to the 2 day extravangza that is the Future of Web Design conference and workshops.
I am aware that there has been quite a lot of criticism of FOWD this year that it wasn’t forward looking enough, too much retrospection and not enough looking at cutting edge technology of the future. In some way I have to agree as you’ll see something of this sentiment in my comments on the design presentations. However, in the process of writing these notes and reviewing the experience as a whole, I’ve realised just how much inspiration there was to be gained from many of the speakers. And I know I’ve already referred to all the meeting people and socialising there is to be done in an earlier post, but I can’t emphasise enough how important this is to the whole day. So perhaps it shouldn’t be called “Future of Web Design” but I’m not going to argue over the name: I went to see a selection of presentations about web design and related topics and that is what I got, and they weren’t all bad—as you’ll see from this lengthy article—there was plenty to take note of.
Illustration of an audience member’s contribution to Coudal’s Booking Bands
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