Jan 2011

Web design trends for 2011

Trends sweep the world of digital design more than other form of design. Digital design is much more temporary given that it’s so simple to recycle. Here are my predictions for the trends will see within the industry this year.

Dec 2010

Digital interface style guide considerations

Many existing brand guide lines don’t talk about digital applications, often haven’t considered any sort of branded time-based (animation) guidelines and rarely discuss any form of interactive graphic language or interaction principles. This post attempts to document best practise for developing digital brand guidelines.

Oct 2010

Eurogamer Expo 2010

This weekend marked the second year I’ve visited the Eurogamer expo to get a chance to view and play upcoming games. Here are my impressions.

Sep 2010

Apps that blur traditional and digital interactions

These iPhone applications are blurring the lines between traditional and digital interactions and mediums — creating an interesting contrast between old and new. They challenging the need to simply use the physical interactions that are packaged with the medium’s physical properties.

Mar 2010

Games as multi-genre digital content for the web & mobile

After attending the Games Based Learning 2010 conference in London I’ve come away with a realisation of what the medium is capable of and present the case that web designers should be informed and ready to implement games as another form of digital content.

Mar 2010

User interface design in video games

Games are introducing innovative UI elements that exist within the game world. After reading through a Thesis and a few articles on game interface design I examine the different types of UI elements, separating them in to categories and providing examples of their implementation.