The feature that convinced me to jump from Photoshop to Fireworks wasn’t it’s multiple page documents, its cascading symbols, intelligent styling options or any of...

I have never suffered from a bad back or neck. That’s a miracle really, as I have spent many many years and many many long...

On a very icy February morning (-13) in Cambridgeshire, freezing fog left amazing ice crystals on stones, trees and iron gates. Unfortunately I didn’t have...

I am conscious that some people in the web industry, including myself(!) may be getting tired of hearing the word ‘responsive’ in everything they read....

Some companies just don’t know how quickly they can ruin the look and feel of their own website simply by spewing out far too much...

Dubai is an architects’ playground – a showcase of design and construction achievements, with each building trying to stand out from the crowd. But it’s...

“Design isn’t just how it looks, Design is how it works” – Steve Jobs. Wireframing is important.  I don’t think I need to labour the...

I made a pretty infographic to illustrate a blog post on Boagworld; The whole web is confused by mobile. I’m really keen on infographics at...

W eb sites are not posters, nor should we design them to be posters. I’ve heard this idea a lot recently, that we should be...

C onferences always inspire me. I attended Aral Balkan’s one day Update Conference 2011 in a very blustery Brighton this week and came away with...

I’m not a big fan of swans. Graceful yes. Slightly scary and generally annoying, definitely. In fact they used to be my mortal enemy when...

R ecently I’ve been reviewing University websites and over the last few weeks I’ve noticed a bit of a trend, which amuses me more and...

W ell OK, I admit it. I’m not really a proper designer. I have been bluffing my way through for the last 10 years as...

SXSW in photos We sat on planes… and waited for planes… took photos of random strangers… then welcomed Austin like an old friend. We met...

I was thrilled to have a feature article printed in the February 2011 (#211) edition of .Net magazine. I’ve been in magazines a few times...

A little Lego Christmas card from me.  I ran out of patience after about 30 minutes of moving arms and legs, so just imagine it’s...

Each year my Nativity scene comes out of the attic and sits on a shelf for a couple of weeks. Every year it makes me...

T he iPad onsreen keyboard is okay. It works well, it’s always available and gets the job done, but I find it suffers from a...

A ll my life I’ve heard, even repeated to others that you should ‘never give up’, ‘keep on trying’, quiting is for losers, blah blah. ...

I redesigned my site over the course over the weekend. It was boring and I hated it. It has no ‘Posts by Month’? No, but...

Today I got a Lego Santa. He’s beardy....

R ecently I was asked recently to prepare a set of user personas for a large new client website. As a newcomer to the wonderful...

“I am in love. She’s Norwegian, gorgeous, full of fun, yet with surprising hidden depths. Quite literally so, since her lower limbs are permanently submerged...

O ne of the most depressing realities of being a web designer is looking back at the nice shiny and perfectly presented site you handed...

I am a man of humble origins. My paternal grandfather, Wyndham Howells, was a salmon fisherman at Goldcliff on the River Severn . In fact...

Today I rediscovered my Raynox M-250 Macro lens sitting in a drawer, completely unloved.  I decided to dust it off and venture into the garden...

Had a fun time today at Little Pig Farm with Jane Croft, one of the few suppliers/breeders of micopigs in the UK.  She has a...

The types of Art Deco along Ocean Drive...

A thought provoking visit, remembered through my photography, of what is most probably the most notorious place on Earth. Auschwitz II-Birkenau...

I’ve been playing the piano and creating music from the time I could reach the keys of the small upright piano in the dining room....

A 6am paddle up the Great Ouse #WIN Loads of swans, a couple who weren’t happy with my presence, far too much mist and a...

My father was a sculptor. He had a rare skill of visualising a block of material and extracting a three dimensional model from within it....