Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Radio 1 Teen Awards

Visual treatments of this events site.

Friday, 13 August 2010

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/

Saturday, 19 June 2010

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.. 




Tuesday, 18 May 2010

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.  

Friday, 19 March 2010

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.

Friday, 5 March 2010

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.