Archive for March, 2008

I do like a good design pattern collection. I just like looking at them. And using them, of course. So, for your viewing pleasure, tuck into these for some solutions to common problems. Don’t reinvent the wheel etc etc.

 UI patterns
Berkeley’s web patterns
Welie interaction design library
Peter Morville’s search pattern collection on Flickr
Blink design library
Yahoo! user interface [...]


In my last position at a university I was working in a marketing department. One of the big things on the agenda there was SEO. It seemed that every week a new agency was coming in to spruik their SEO wares. They could analyse the site, they could write a report, they could recommend changes [...]


I have recently begun flying solo as an information architect and writer. So far, it’s been quite to my liking, with the flexibility being great. I’m still getting used to the isolation of working from home but I’ll get there.
My work now is a return to that which I prefer: analysing and organising information, solving [...]