The new Freeview website is now live and is looking so much better than it was previously. I was part of the team that assisted in the redevelopment of the site and was in charge of developing the Information Architecture for the new site. Hopefully the new visual design and structure will be welcomed with positive feedback!
This weekend Richie and I hit up a dawn surf patrol at East Runton on the north Norfolk coast. We got up on Saturday morning at the unearthly hour of 5am. We strapped the boards to the frost-covered roof of the car and were on the road for 5.45am. En-route we were treated to a magnificent sunrise, the kind that makes it all worthwhile being awake at that time of the morning.
On arrival we were greeted by a solid 4-6ft swell, clean lines and plenty of enthusiasm to get ourselves into the water, albeit rather chilly.
We surfed for about 3.5 hours and I managed to catch a good dozen or so waves on both the 6′4 and 8′2. It was great to be rewarded with a decent session with some size after driving all that way and also after surfing in Devon earlier this year in quite poor conditions. I think I might have overdone it though, as I was shivering uncontrollably as I got out (took me the rest of the afternoon to warm up).
I took a few photos before we jumped in the water, all of which are on Flickr, check em out!
Rosana and I are off to Greece for 2 weeks on the 15th Oct. As a surprise anniversary present Rose booked two return tickets to Athens. I was stoked and touched with the gesture.
We are going to plan our itinerary over the next week and book up some accomodation. All we know so far is that we want to go to Athens and Crete and possibly one or two other islands.
I am looking forward to a little late autumn sunshine, taking some pictures and enjoying the scenery, architecture, food and drink and hopefully our first successful holiday together (if things go well we will book up a trip to Brazil early next year for possibly 4-6 weeks - serious surf time me thinks).
Countdown has begun!
This weekend Rosana and I hung out in the countryside and enjoyed the good weather and my mum’s bday. We took a little stroll around the back roads of Ugley Green and did a spot of blackberry picking. Here’s a few pics from our trip, the rest are on Flickr.
I returned a few days ago, from what could be described as the wettest holiday in Devon I’ve ever had. We had 1 full day of sunshine and then the rest was either showers or heavy downpours, which put a rather large dampener on the whole thing.
The waves were a mixture of 1-2ft clean lines and 3-6ft storm surf. We improvised and managed to use every board in the quiver from the 8′2, 6′4, 6′2 to 6′0. Richie even got stuck in and bought himself a brand new Tiki 8′4 Megamal and has now he renewed the stoke!
I took my Canon EOS and my new EF 55-250mm telephoto lens and got some pretty nice shots. Check out the a few of them on Flickr.
Hopefully as we move into autumn we’ll get some more sizeable and cleaner sessions, wonders will never cease!
Redeveloping the front-end code and optimising the user interface.
Part of the discovery IA whilst working on the Freeview redesign.
Part of the IA toolbox I created whilst at Grand Union.
Part of the IA I created for the Heinz website redesign pitch.
Part of the IA I created for the Freeview website redesign.
Wireframes for the launch of the new Sony HD website.
Restructuring Digital UK ready for CMS migration.
Examing the UXP elements of the Freeview website.
Where and when to use IA deliverables.
When should IA be inolved in a web dev project.
IA and web strategy for BT Vision
IA and web strategy for BT Anywhere
IA and web strategy for London Capital Group
Online versions of the videos I've produced over recent years. Select a link to launch the video (you'll need to turn on your audio).