“The Scottish Highlands are one of the most sparsely populated regions in Europe and are popularly described as the most scenic. The winding roads guide travelers and residents alike through purple-speckled mountain ranges, tall forests, rolling hills and along lake sides.”

“The Big Island, also known as the Island of Hawaii is an amazingly beautiful place and I was lucky enough to call it home for the first 17 years of my life. The Big Island is made up of just about every different type of landscape you can imagine… Volcanoes and Deserts… Rainforests and Grasslands… Beaches and Valleys… even Mountains and Snow…”

“Everyone who hasn’t encountered designer’s block, raise your hand. Just as I thought. Well then, chances are you could use some places to get inspiration for those days when the pixels aren’t aligned and your mouse finger isn’t clicking like it should. We’ve compiled a list, online and off to serve up everything from logos to icons to art to fashion to just inventive ideas to get your mind ticking.”

“I had the chance to take a creative role in how Flock, who are trying to revolutionize the way youth browse the web, presented themselves. Needless to say, I jumped at the opportunity. However, it wasn’t all sweet. By taking the project of providing them with an effective redesign to accompany their new beta product, I threw a gigantic rock in their way. In fact, they were close to finishing a redesign headed by another great designer. As I was sitting and watching the tour of what they had, I felt that it didn’t effectively reflect what they were. Needless to say, I gave myself all of this work, driven by the feeling that I could really do something better.”

For the full behind the scenes recap, visit Bryan’s site.

“We tested 20 websites with 40 users – 20 male and 20 female – at our premises in central London. All users were between the ages of 18 and 35 years old, and all regularly used the internet. A Pentium IV-based PC computer and 17″ monitor with a resolution setting of 1024 x 768 pixels were used to conduct the testing.

Users were asked simply to explore each website. (While we were only interested in their interactions with the homepage, we didn’t want to artificially influence their natural browsing behaviour by constraining them to only that page).”

“The Shuttle is a complete beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel. The project has been in development since early 2005. The images below effectively show the future of the WordPress administration panel. These are the images we did on Photoshop, so there is no plugin for you to download, as it’s not been incorporated into the final release yet. “

For the small design business and freelancer, they are a great way to toot one’s own horn, stay in the industry limelight and tell existing and potential clients something you want them to know.

“We’ve all been there. The client says, “Just design it. We’ll flow the content in later.” Or the designer says, “Here’s what the page looks like. I just used gobbledygook for the text, cause that’s not my job.” Unfortunately, that’s no way to design a good experience.

It may be fashionable to say “markets are conversations” or “design is about communicating ideas,” but how can that be true if the designers aren’t working with, or actually writing, the text?”

User experience isn’t just visual design, but why is that so?