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Yesterday evening I went along to ‘We need to talk about America’, a panel discussion event as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2010. It’s not every day you get to hear prominent authors voice ideas and experiences so openly and frankly about the state of that nation, and it was also a chance for [...]

This is a mobile/handset interface design concept I created for Tourism Australia. The brief was to reach potential tourists, mainly in the UK, and lead them on a three-step journey: inspiration, exploration, then conviction to book a holiday… all through the vehicle of shared photos. The concept trades off the power of shared experiences, and [...]

With all the great prototyping tools that are around these days, some people are heralding (or bemoaning?) the demise of the humble wireframe. But if we play to their strengths, I think they can do what fancy prototypes can’t.

Nuix is an enterprise search software product geared to domains that have to deal with incredible amounts of data, such as legal firms, government and regulatory organisations. I worked with several consultants at PTG Global to reorganise and redesign the user interface of the product, as well as creating the visual design.
The ground-up [...]

The brief to redesign the website for TAFE Northern Sydney Institute was essentially to connect students with the right courses at the right campuses, and to promote the business services that TAFE NSI has to offer. Results of requirements workshops clearly indicated the search and browse paths that people preferred, as well as the various [...]

The Government 2.0 Taskforce has just released its final report - Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0. I’ve been eager to see the release of this report, not only because of its generous attribution to me for the Government 2.0 Taskforce logo and cover design  , but also because it’ll hopefully provide the concise [...]

This is the second talk I gave at the recent Create Conference (November 2009), which is all about more effective writing for websites. I thought I’d reproduce it here for those who were asking me about it afterwards, and for anyone else for whom this might be useful. You can also view the slides (below) [...]

This is the first talk I gave at the recent Create Conference (November 2009), which is all about improving the organic search engine results rankings for your website. I thought I’d reproduce it here for those who were asking me about it afterwards, and for anyone else for whom this might be useful. You can [...]

Create Conference - the conference run by FEVA for churches and other ministries to tackle gospel communication issues - is on again soon, and I’ve just completed the latest version of the website.
The Create Conference is on Saturday 14 November, and by the looks of the program, it’s about twice as big as last year. [...]

This is the new design I created for the createconference.org.au website for 2009, updating the design that I did last year. The brand had to still clearly focus on the airship, but FEVA was very keen to have a new look and feel, to emphasise the strong drive of creativity.
Last year’s vintage neo-Victorian ‘look’ was [...]