Half Baked Ideas

Half Baked Ideas

Gavin Wye  //  I am an User Experience Designer at ORM in London. I like dog's and running. You can make the rest up yourself

Oct 28 / 2:35pm

Overly accessable

by Gavin Wye

I was on a southern train the other day and noticed this. The effort to make all signage accessable is great but when it relates to another visual que imagane the frustration of the reader.

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Oct 28 / 3:08am

Why I dumped Wordpress

by Gavin Wye
Around about May this year I stopped writing my Wordpress blog and started using Posterous. 

Wordpress is a very nice blog but has far to many features for me I had been running my blog with it for a couple of years but it hadn't really taken off. I just spent to much time worrying about what it looked like and trying to get to the bottom of all those design problems and not writing.

Then along came Posterous it's simple just post from it you can't change the theme (you couldn't at the time they have since added theming) it's easy to setup and just works. It's elegant not over complicated. I would have probably written this about Wordpress a couple of years ago.

I just hope they don't start adding features in a bid to compete. It will be interesting to watch how Posterous develops over the next year and the amount of features that get added.
Filed under  //  Waffle  

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Aug 28 / 2:47pm

The Spectrum of User Experience - Rev Mentor

by Gavin Wye
via revmentor.com

What more can you say

Filed under  //  User Experience Design   UX  

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Aug 28 / 1:39pm

50 Influential Designers & Developers to Follow on Twitter | Graphic Leftovers Blog

by Gavin Wye
Check out this website I found at graphicleftovers.com

I have been thinking lately about the value I get (and give) from twitter, this looks like an interesting place to start if you want to get more value. Of course this depends on your definition of value.

Filed under  //  Twitter   Web  

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Aug 28 / 1:33pm

From findability.org - The Real Information Architect - Adam's posterous

by Gavin Wye
via adamburke.posterous.com

I was wondering around posterous and found this I started off disagreeing with the whole IA thing while reading the definitions but by the end of the slide show I was sitting there nodding and agreeing. I still think I do more than just IA though

Filed under  //  IA   UX  

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Jul 6 / 4:21am

My Dog

by Gavin Wye
My dog's name is Alfie here is a phot of him

Filed under  //  Home  

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Jun 18 / 5:10am

What is a wireframe?

by Gavin Wye

Found this description of what a wire frame is though it was quite nice.
 
It's from boagworld
 
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"Fundamentally a wireframe is a tool for rapidly prototyping a website. They roughly approximate the layout, content and hierarchy of a web page as well as the relationship between pages. Effectively you are building a rough version of the site.
 
Wireframes don’t look attractive. They are not designed as such. Rather they give a sense of how things will be organised on your site. In many cases they lack colour and imagery, although there is no reason why they should. However, they do show visual hierarchy through layout, font size and shading."

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