Sounds of 2011

Originally a little site parked in a corner of the BBC News site. Rory Connolly (producer at BBC  /music) took up the cause. The "Sounds of" site is dedicated to highlighting new music acts who pundits think will be the next "big thing".

I was the design lead, this entailed discussion with Rory on the visual 'tone' he wanted the site to achieve. Our clooective steer on initial branding and sites we thought were interesting or in the same sphere (competitor analysis).This enabled us to convey a clear brief to the indie.

Later in the project I reviewed the wireframes, visual treatments and the final  pre-launch build. I gave feedback and signed off on each of these stages. .

All the stake holders on the project were very pleased with the end result and the smooth running of the project. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/soundof/2011/

Wallace and Grommits World of Invention! Nov 2010

This site recently won a new media Bafta !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ1RXM2gMYI

I was the design lead for the website working with Aardman based in Bristol. Below is the final homepage design with notes to Aardman's coders and UX team. The link colours changed later on but this became the final layout. A challenging site to produce but I was happy with the end result. As you can see it's unmistakeably an Aardman product, the tricky bit was making it all fit BBC layouts.

Hat's off to Aardman for a great flash game. Well tested, great concept and very sticky, I was hooked on it for a while.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/wallaceandgromit/wallaces-workshop/
 

Radio 1 Teen Awards

Visual treatments of this events site.

Radio 4's, What Are They Worth?

Tim Stansbie and his team at "Kite" (http://madebykite.com). The purpose of this little game was to guess how much people get paid and contrast that with how much "you think" they should be paid.

The results fed into a database that collated the scores and displayed the "average" of what everyone else thought. 


I was the design lead. I wanted something fun looking and accessible for a radio 4 audience. I didn't want them to feel like they were being tested. so we came up with the idea of friendly lego style characters of each type of person. My personal favourite is the prime minister.

I also wanted an "info graphic" to show people clearly what the figures all meant. Inspiration for this idea came from the great work done by David McCandless(http://www.davidmccandless.com/) and more specifically is billion dollar-o-gram. Kite and Sandy (producer) took on board an initial wireframe/ concept I produced and ran with it. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/pay/

Junior Apprentice 2010 initial designs

The Apprentice is really popular, the key information people want to know is the profiles of the candidates,if you deliver on that, and you can’t go far wrong. We (with Freemantle) delivered a slick looking but easy to implement design. The 'classic quotes' and candidate pages were the unique selling point of the site. That's what people wanted to know, the unique users per week stayed at around 200K throughout the series lifespan.

I was the design lead on this project. There was a tight turn around time. Mainly due to the general election and Lord Suger's labour affiliation the TV shows launch date jumped forward several of months.This meant the site had to be live several months early also.. 

Electric Proms 2010

This was a phased launch (pre/live/post) and the site needed to clearly give key information to a less web savy Radio 2 audience. It needed to look fun, exciting and slick. Kent Lyons delviered on a great looking design.

I was the lead designer Radio 2's Electric Proms website.  I worked closely with the production team from A&M interactive, also the marketing team, the brand agency Fallon and Kent Lyons. A six week project from start to finish.  

Designing for the BBC crib sheet

I was asked to produce a 'One pager ' for designers working outside the BBC to refer to easily.  I wanted something that could be printed on one page. I used my experience of working with indies to try address the most common problems that come up on a regular basis.

Example screens from Good Design Process document presented in Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester for BBC@North

Presented as the UX Lead at the BBC @North presentation in Newcastle Manchester and Leeds in Feb 2010 on the New GVL and "how to design for the BBC". The point of this was to get  the Indie industry across the North aware of what we're doing and help themconnect and pitch for opportunities . 

*Note Michael Albers created the original document shown below some of the visuals supplied by  "in house" BBC designers.

Modern Masters BBC1 : May 2010

The Modern Masters site highlights the life and works of Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Warhol. I art directed the site build and managed the design sign off 'gates' on various parts of the project. From initial mood boards to the final designs the visual cleanness of the site makes it work well.
 

The site included of downloadable art walks in various cities around the UK.

Eddie Gachegua the designer at Lion TV did a really great job for brilliant design skills, patience and flexibility. The site produced was clean and crips allowing the content of the "Masters" to shine through.

Hands on History

This was a nice little project hat worked really well. Quick turn around and a pure 'in house' job.

Celebdaq GVL 2

Some screen designs of a website that didn't make it despite the best efforts of everyone involved. 

Celebdaq was a fake Celebrity trading game where players make fake money gambling on the success or failure of real Celebs. Some really hardwork and effort went into the design phase of this project so I thought I would show it.