September 6th, 2010
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
New web site Consultive Magazine launched
A brand new online publication Consultive Magazine launched today
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July 20th, 2010
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
July 5th, 2010
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
June 27th, 2010
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
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
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
HTML tables: Not totally bad. Part two: An introduction to the table element and its associates
Part two of a three part series
December 13th, 2007
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
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?
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
November 1st, 2007
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Sometimes trees grow sideways
Do you browse left to right or up and down?
October 25th, 2007
Top web tools and resources that no web designer (or developer) should live without
From browser plugins to image generators
October 18th, 2007
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
October 11th, 2007
10 point Design Manifesto – “my top 10 web design principles”
10 principles for designing better websites
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October 4th, 2007
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
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
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.
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
August 23rd, 2007
Documenting the design of a web application -Part three: Using “Page state” diagrams to illustration dynamic interaction
Part three of a three part series
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
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.
August 2nd, 2007
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?
July 27th, 2007
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.