You already have some conception of who your trying to reach – on which devices – and what your mobile content strategy looks like. You also know you need some kind of device adaptation to offer something compelling and desirable to customers regardless of what device they’ve used to get to you. Now, what’s the …
Roger Wilco
Road-testing design games as a facilitator
After recently attending a workshop about design games, I was pleased by the opportunity to road test some the techniques. What ensued was an interesting lesson – proving fully that good facilitation (and outcomes) is about more than just techniques or methods. Myself and two other ‘customer experience’ people were approached in the hope that …
UX Australia: Turbocharge your workshops with Andy Budd
I was fortunate enough to attend UX Australia in Sydney this year, and this workshop by Andy Budd – about running good workshops – was a highlight for me. As much as I enjoyed the content and hands-on practice, it was most interesting to observe a master at work. It’s fairly common knowledge that good …
Publishing is so easy
Wow. It only took about 5 hours to totally redesign – and I’ll use that term loosely – Roger Wilco and export/import content. Thanks a bunch WordPress, Charlene Theme by Papertree and Cufon. It wasn’t entirely plug’n’play – there was some jiggery pokery with the theme to de-Americanise date formats, inject some sexier typography, tweak leading …
User goals, mobile limitations and existing functionality
Reading this excellent article over at UXMatters, I was pleased so much to read this Putting users’ goals first allows a design team to concentrate on the new opportunities a mobile application presents rather than seeing the challenges of mobile simply as barriers to implementing a Web application’s existing functionality. So much so that I …
Telling other people why they need mobile SEO
Emily Freeman recently invited me to pipe up on one of my recent areas of interest – Mobile SEO. Catch the full article over at mobilista.com.au.
Making Roger Wilco Better, Again.
Topics and Archives have been added. This was overdue – not surprisingly, the superceded single page design (showing bulk posts across multiple non-related topics) was not really cutting it, info design wise. In part, this is why I’ve been silent on Roger Wilco for the last few months. It was just too hard to represent …
Making Roger Wilco Better
A few minor but notable changes to Roger Wilco today. Homebrew dynamic meta-data (description, page title) based on the contents of each post This should take care of the current poorly defined, repetitive, and mildly embarrassing page descriptions that you might see via a site search from one of the major search engines. Comments! You can now freely …
Mobile Search and SEO Considerations for Mobile
Mobile Search is experimental. The big search engines constantly change their search offering in response to market segmentation; global changes in the market; technological capability and a raft of other variants. Generally this is done by leveraging more than one collection of data—news, images, wikipedia, weather etc—and presenting the collected results to users in a …
Retrospective: Big Automobile typeface
For me—given that visual design is not where I’m best—looking at old work is often a cringeworthy experience. This time it’s not the case. Here’s my first effort (2004) at producing an original typeface from the ground up. This one is inspired by the badge faces synonymous with it’s namesake – the large American cars …