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Leaving Clearleft
After almost five years as a Senior Designer at Clearleft, I've decided the time is right for me to move on in search of new challenges and excitements. From July, I will return to the life of a...
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BBC GEL Social Media Icons – the set
Back in April, before I left Clearleft, I started creating a few social media icons as a little side project. They were inspired by two specific icons within the BBC's new Global Experience Language...
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Introducing Alphagov
I can finally stop biting my tongue about the exciting work we’ve been doing recently at Supernice. I say we, as from last month my lovely wife, Relly, joined the company full-time. Since then we’ve...
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Launching a prototype Government site – alpha.gov.uk
For the past few months, Relly and I have been part of the team working with the Cabinet Office on an early proof-of-concept of what the UK Government could do with one central website instead of...
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How a vote against capital punishment could help get it reinstated
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Earlier this week, the new Government Digital Service published the first user-submitted petitions on the new Directgov “e-petitions” website. The press duly made a...
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Social login + social history
Estimated reading time: just a minute! More and more sites are using third party authentication to set up an account or sign in to their services. Typically, I’ve experienced this as “login with...
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Lazy web designers undermine print stylesheets
Since the dawn of time, web designers have had the tools to provide "print stylesheets" with their websites – invisible instructions that tell a user's computer how to format the page when it's...
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GOV.UK beta
I joined the Cabinet Office as Creative Lead for online transactions at the Government Digital Service last year. We're doing more than redesigning a website; we're revolutionising the way government...
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Designs of the Year, 2013
It would feel wrong to have posted my overdue IA Summit blog post today without also posting this bigger news. We just won the Design Museum’s “Designs of the Year” Awards for GOV.UK! I’m so proud to...
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What’s happening?
I couldn’t be more excited about my next move. I’m joining the design team at Twitter! I can think of no other product with which I’ve built such a relationship, or use so frequently. Twitter is...
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