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November 2, 2009

Life as a consultant

Filed under: General musings — Chris @ 6:54 pm

I’ve just finished my first 2 months working as a consultant. On 1st September 2009 I started work at EMC Conchango, the number 2 digital agency in the UK (according to the NMA top 100 list). Life as a consultant definitely seems different to working in an agency. I’ve jotted down a few of the differences here. (more…)

November 14, 2008

Great digital marketing ebooks from Wunderman

Filed under: General musings — Chris @ 3:39 pm

I came across these great digital marketing ebooks (PDFs) from agency Wunderman. In particular the one entitled How to think digital. They seem to be freely available – enjoy!

http://pubs.wunderman.com/digital/

July 24, 2008

The user experience of a toilet on South West Trains

Filed under: General musings, Product design, User Experience — Chris @ 5:21 pm

Whitney Hess’s recent post about the user experience of a staircase reminded me that user experience design is everywhere and affects us everyday. Don Norman’s seminal work The design of everyday things analyses the design of many objects, such as telephones and doors. I came across this terrible design recently and had to share it here. (more…)

July 7, 2008

Should IAs be involved thoughout the web development process?

Filed under: General musings, Information Architecture, Interface design — Chris @ 5:49 pm

A fundamental question for me relating to the information architect role is how we fit in to and interact with the wider web team, and to what extent IAs should be involved throughout the web process. (more…)

June 2, 2008

Ideas for blog posts

Filed under: General musings — Chris @ 10:19 am

A few ideas for blogs I could write (more…)

May 30, 2008

Raison d’être

Filed under: General musings, Information Architecture — Chris @ 1:59 pm

So this is my first post…

I’m not sure what this site will develop in to – if anything (useful). But I’ve created it because I think it’s important to share ideas relating to making and planning web sites. Information architecture is such a new and evolving discipline, I wanted to get involved in the community to let other know what it is to me, and to find out what it is to them. (more…)

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