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September 6th, 2010

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Blending online and offline: ASDA take a step in the right direction

A follow up to my “How supermarkets could blend the online and the offline Worlds to make customers more loyal” article

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August 2nd, 2010

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New web site Consultive Magazine launched

A brand new online publication Consultive Magazine launched today

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July 20th, 2010

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How supermarkets could blend the online and the off line Worlds to make customers more loyal

Providing online spend analysis for customers who shop with a loyalty card could help supermarkets keep customers coming back for more on and offline

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July 5th, 2010

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Three reasons why Enterprise software, as a rule, offers such a poor User Experience

1) The people who buy the software are not the end users. 2) Software designed to do everything for everyone will not be very good at any one thing. 3) It is really hard to define a great user experience, or prove that a system offers one

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June 27th, 2010

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Why you need to offer a great User Experience as a cloud computing organisation

As more and more organisations start offering their software using a cloud computing model the user experience of their offerings become more and more critical to the success of attracting and retaining customers.

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June 22nd, 2010

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As of today I’m a freelance web consultant, designer and developer for hire

Welcome to the official website of JMcQuarrie Ltd

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January 24th, 2008

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HTML tables: Not totally bad. Part three: Putting tables into practise

The third and final installment of a series of posts about HTML tables

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December 20th, 2007

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HTML tables: Not totally bad. Part two: An introduction to the table element and its associates

Part two of a three part series

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December 13th, 2007

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HTML tables: Not totally bad. Part one: HTML tables are not the root of all evil

Lets talk about HTML tables properly

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December 6th, 2007

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How card counting could make content personalisation possible

Content personalisation is the Holy-Grail of web design, could card counting be the answer?

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November 29th, 2007

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One reason why cross browser compatability is a business issue

Building your application for one browser is always a business issue

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November 22nd, 2007

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Where then what vs. What then where

Which is the better model for Information Architecture?

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November 15th, 2007

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The results – Your experiences of online shopping poll

Online shopping survey results

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November 8th, 2007

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Online shopping. What's your experience?

Online shopping survey

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November 1st, 2007

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Sometimes trees grow sideways

Do you browse left to right or up and down?

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October 25th, 2007

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Top web tools and resources that no web designer (or developer) should live without

From browser plugins to image generators

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October 18th, 2007

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CSS tip:- Using whitespace: nowrap and line-height on horitzonal lists to stop splintering and overlapping

Two CSS tricks to make horizontal lists look better

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October 11th, 2007

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10 point Design Manifesto – “my top 10 web design principles”

10 principles for designing better websites

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October 4th, 2007

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Aligning systems development with company strategy

What you design and build should align with where you’re going as an organisation

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September 20th, 2007

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5 simple ways to make your mark up more manageable

HTML & CSS coding tricks that can save you and your team time

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September 13th, 2007

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With the advent of Google earth and Google maps, a new dawn in advertising was quietly ushered in.

As advertisers realise this they will cotton on to a, as yet relatively untapped, marketing platform; roofs.

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September 6th, 2007

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Introducing the “FAVE” pattern for web application administration functionality

Find, Add, View, Edit

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August 30th, 2007

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Designing and building User Experiences for web applications is very much like designing and building special effects for movies; in both cases you know you’ve been truly successful when no one notices what you did.

What you can learn from the special effects in Forest Gump

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August 23rd, 2007

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Documenting the design of a web application -Part three: Using “Page state” diagrams to illustration dynamic interaction

Part three of a three part series

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August 16th, 2007

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Documenting the design of a web application -Part two: Using static HTML mock up screens to document the User Interface and show the User Experience

Part two of a three part series

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August 9th, 2007

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Documenting the design of a web application -Part one: Using Garrett’s Visual Vocabulary to document the Information Architecture

For the past two and a half years I have been working in the world of User Experience and web interface design.

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August 2nd, 2007

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Could Social Networking be the answer (or at least part of it) to the Knowledge Management problem? (UPDATED 22 Aug 2007)

For years organisation’s have struggled to realise the potential of their collective knowledge because they have no way of collecting or sharing it. Could Social Networking be the answer?

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July 27th, 2007

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Welcome

I started building websites way back in late 2000, having read my way through the book “Learn HTML in a weekend”. It got me hooked, and I’ve been involved in designing, developing and maintaining websites in some form or another ever since.

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