Writing

I asked Jake Archibald a few questions about how he designed and developed his native-feeling SVG optimisation app.

Finding parallels between redecorating my house and redesigning a website.

Before going freelance, I decided to take some time off during February. Part of this included spending a few days in Berlin.

Answers to questions about responsive design put to me by readers of net Magazine.

I’m leaving the Guardian and going freelance in March.

For the last year I’ve been working at the Guardian under the leadership of a creative director.

I perch my partridge in the CSS pear tree to discuss naming methodologies, ontologies and semantics. What’s in a name? That which we call a cherub by any other name would smell as sweet.

Last Thursday I was in Belfast for Break Conference, the spiritual successor to Build.

As a unique human endeavour, imbued with all the complexities of our species, it is about discovering the most appropriate solution within a fog of differing constraints, opinions and desires. The compromise therefore, lies somewhere between the world we wish for, and the one we currently inhabit.

Earlier this month I spent a week volunteering at the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Last Friday I attended Responsive Day Out 2. While the format was the same as last year, the tenor was a little different. Gone were the theoretical presentations, instead speakers focused on the work; getting into the nitty-gritty.

With the announcement that Editorially service will close at the end of May, I’m left looking for an alternative. Can anything fill the void left by its untimely demise?

For this month’s net magazine, Martin Cooper asked me to provide some thoughts on this question prompted by a recent exchange between Jeff Croft and Jeffrey Zeldman.

With the British government now able to count itself among the few countries sporting a coherent identity programme, a follow up to my 2009 post on the subject.

In this interview for Creative Bloq, I talk about web native design and how Saul Bass inspires my work.

Whereas the world’s foremost architects, graphic artists, typographers, iconographers and illustrators are asked to create their best work to celebrate each Olympic Games, still we wait for the Olympic movement to give equal consideration to the design of its websites.

The net Awards return for their fifteenth year, and I’m more than a little surprised to be nominated for Designer of the Year.

Vasilis van Gemert asked me to curate a list of classic articles for the Daily Nerd, but what constitutes a classic?

Goals, resolutions, call you what you will, here are a few ways I intend to become a better, more productive person this year.

My interview with Workspiration.

The tail end of this year has been rather hectic. If moving house and changing jobs weren’t enough to be getting on with, I was also busy redesigning 24 ways.

This weekend I will move into a new flat, the first I’ve owned rather than rented. While I’m trying not to see buying a property as an act of settling down, that I’ve bought somewhere in Brighton suggests I’ve found a city I’m happy to call home. This is partly thanks to Clearleft, the design agency I joined in 2009.

Paul Lloyd, senior visual designer at Brighton-based web agency Clearleft, explains why he’s not sad that Adobe has killed Fireworks, as he’s already moved onto a much better tool to design site interfaces and elements.

Paul Lloyd, senior visual designer at Brighton-based web agency Clearleft, is impressed with Adobe’s new web design software tools – but it faces strong competition.