This is Me
Education
I've had a passion for design for as long as I can remember and an interest in technology ever since my granddad let me play with his Commodore 64. I built my first website when I was 12 and started freelancing soon after. I studied graphic art, business and IT at school and went on to take business, IT and network engineering at college. I'm now working towards a degree in design and psychology.
Work
After college, I spent a couple of years in London screwing servers into racks and answering technical support requests from bewildered web hosting customers. I continued to work on freelance design projects whenever I could.
Since joining Red Ant in 2006 (4 years, 2 offices, 12 desks and 1,854 cups of tea later) I've had the chance to work on projects of all shapes and sizes for local businesses and major international brands. Originally managing QA and usability, I now focus on UX design and consultancy, combining skills in business and systems analysis, interaction design, cognitive psychology, information architecture and visual design. I'm particularly interested in usability and accessibility for people with disabilities.
Fun
I watch lots of television and read lots of books. I also love music and am often to be found hiding between a pair of headphones. I play both guitar and piano, badly.
My long-suffering girlfriend says I eat too much pizza, so much so that I may actually become one. If that is my destiny, so be it.
I'm an autodidact and information addict. I can explain general relativity, mass–energy equivalence and Newton's laws of motion. I can tell you all about the structure of the universe and the history of space exploration. I can even demonstrate how time travel is possible. Unfortunately I'm also hopeless at maths.
Sitting under a clear sky with a blanket and a telescope is my idea of heaven.
This Website
All pages are written in POSH (XHTML 1.0 strict) with microformats for extra semantic goodness and CSS for visual styling. I've used some of the latest features from CSS3 (such as border-radius for rounded corners) which are not yet supported by all browsers. I write my code by hand in Notepad++.
Hosting is provided by United and the content management system is ExpressionEngine.
I want to make my site accessible to as many people as possible. I aim to follow current best practice and conform to Level AA of WCAG 2.0 but if you do experience any problems or you have any suggestions, please give me a nudge and I'll do what I can to help. May I also suggest you visit the excellent BBC My Web My Way which explains how you can change your browser and computer settings to make the Web more accessible to you.
Unless otherwise noted, the content I post here is released under a Creative Commons Licence. You can share it, quote it, remix it and build on it but I'd be grateful if you'd ask me first.
