Projects

Fortis: IFA life sales and commission system

Fortis: Life, pensions, investment products

Role: Lead the conception and experience delivery of Fortis’ latest transactional risk business tool (a secure, prime-partner portal). Establish UCD methodology in a SCRUM process environment and define and evangelise the role of user experience design in this traditional, software-engineering-led team.

Outcome: We launched on time and our product has leapfrogged the industry leader in its first six months of operation.

Inpharmatica Ltd

Redesign and restructure bioinformatics extranet application. Lead team of scientists, programmers and marketers through a complete user experience architecture process resulting in an entirely new system design.

The British Museum: current state assessment

Information architecture and current state assessment.

Role: Perform audit of all Museum’s internet advertising and publishing activity, intranets, extranets and websites. Develop future publishing strategy and present plan to Directors. Establish costs and schedules for future activity.

Discovery workshop stimulus based on Museum structures

Responding to the DCMS brief for Museums in the 21st Century

Site flow dot file

Cognima

An impossible brief: a set of website templates that could repair themselves and shield the user from design mistakes.

Dug has worked with Cognima for a number of years. Over this period, he has developed

• A complete corporate identity programme
  • Brand mark
  • Brand guideline
  • Print requirements (letterhead, cards)
  • Website template system
  • Promotionals (T-shirts, mugs, mousemats)
  • Office signage and place-holding
  • Bilingual Japanese/English design
• Travelling exhibition stand design
• A collection of limited-edition music CDs

Navigation system:

Music:

Website:

CSS work

A couple more pure CSS application skins over at TruePlayaz and Lemonjelly and you know what, you learn something everyday--who'd a thunk you could get a dot-ky tld?

http://janusthinking.com

As ever, Tim says it best:

The blog itself should become a projection of the bizarre mind of Isaac Mostovicz: karate expert, diamanteer, talmudic scholar, luxury marketer...

Isaac believes that embracing paradox can enable deep transformation. He's written about 100,000 words on the topic so far, which I'll be editing and extracting over the months to come--confusion will reign!

Any suggestions for links, topics and functionality tweaks on a postcard please. Big hat tip to Glasshouse associate Dug Falby.

Experimental Pragmatics

In the spirit of releasing early and often, experimentalpragmatics.org went live last night well before the design is actually finished. Dug can't pretend to understand the concepts of relevance and utterance interpretation, but he's happy to be able to help another non-profit onto the internet.

Hedkandi

Dug has completed another pure CSS ringtone shop interface for those wonderful guys at YR Media. We're now rapidly aproaching the point where the ringtone shops could be assembled into an unorthodox (because these are targeted at Firefox and IE6) CSS Zen Garden. More on that thought later...