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Searching for the ideal search solution

Over recent years we’ve used either native Drupal search or SOLR in our web projects. Neither has been ideal. Recently though we’ve been deploying Google Site Search and we like it a lot. Read More

British Medical Association Award for COPD app

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease of the lungs that affects around 1 million people in the UK. Read More

Who should I bring to the kick-off meeting?

Recently, a new client asked me who should participate in the kick-off meeting for a project to design a website that would communicate the outcomes of a large research study. Read More

Enjoying getting it wrong

During my teens and twenties I spent a lot of time skateboarding. It's quite a unique sport in the way it influences your life as a whole. For example, you begin to look at architecture in a new creative way. You also fall over, a lot. Read More

Creating useful pattern libraries

Pattern libraries are great, but designing them (well) is difficult. Read More

The life/work imbalance

Working 24/7 doesn’t make you any better or worse at your job, it will just burn you out. I’ve been there, and I’m not going back. Read More

Does your site have charisma?

Over the last couple of years I’ve heard many people bemoan the fact that a lot of websites "are all starting to look the same". There’s a certain amount of truth in this. Read More