I came across SVG Animation after looking for a Cross Web Browser, Cross Mobile Platform solution for small animations instead of using Gif’s. This tutorial simply shows how to make the SVG Animation as that was a little frustrating as it took me a while to work out how to make it rotate around the…

I watched on ABC iview last night a documentary on I.M.Pei Learning from light and one part stood out for me in with Pei’s absolute obsession with the sunlight lit building and the geometric facets which make the building interesting. With a history in 3D art i’ve experienced weeks on end adjusting lighting systems to…

I’ve been using webfonts in my software designs for a while now, and finding it really speeds up the design and build process and allows me to distribute the icons and icon updates across my design files, multiple web browsers, resolutions (no retina images) and embedded across multiple Mobile environments (Android and iOs) all with the same…

I was asked to design up a screen where store staff could go to download a report of sales, but who the hell has time for that, medicine instead this widget is included on the operators dashboard so they can passively consume the sales data and all know the numbers. Love bringing lean startup concepts to big…

This design is for the home page of Officeworks Print and Copy online offer. This was an exciting project where we were able to re categorise and re productise the offers as part of the re design, page a few month after launch sales dramatically increased and continued to climb so was a great success. Previously this page was…

I was watching a TED presentation on being wrong, and liked the road runner analogy used. Basically what it feels like to be wrong is like in Loony Toons where the coyote chases the road runner right off the cliff, but the coyote keeps running in the air until he realises he is in the air. He then falls. Because…

Yesterday at Service Design Conference 2011 in San Francisco the closing keynote speaker Richard Buchanan was fantastic. It was interesting to hear his view that Management is a design practice and that Service design is an emergent practice, not a novelty. He also gave the group a bit of tough love, drugs by saying; “The role of…

I’ve read quite a few definitions, and thought i’d start putting them back up here for reference, the below video i thought was a great introduction: Service Design Network, Learn Basics Page: Within Service Design, Service Interfaces are designed for intangible products that are, from the customer’s point of view, useful, profitable and desirable, while…

I’ve been thrashing through mockups the last few weeks, and was frustrated with my initial versions of form designs, they seemed to take a few reviews before they were at a good starting point I felt would be easy to use. A friend of mine Peter Grearson pointed me to Web Form Design by Luke…

After reading a book on Buckminster fuller I came across this video it’s a full hour, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN_ODfUBGeY Lean ThinkingToo many fascinating things to list, but an underlying principal of “doing more and more with less and less” for the benefit of man is fantastic, and it’s always great to change your frame of reference to zoom…