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I'll Show You Mine
Part showcase, part confessional - ten of the UK’s finest digital designers bare their creative souls and share their work and wisdom. Each will reveal - in less than seven minutes - ‘the best advice I’ve ever been given’.
Creative Juice
Creative companies and individuals based in London are being offered a unique opportunity to develop their business skills, gain a better understanding of how to put their creative skills to the best use of their businesses, and how to maximise the revenue derived from their talents.
User Centred Design - Course
In order to make sure your site meets your audience’s needs, you need to start by understanding your audience. This one day course demonstrates a variety of industry-standard tools and techniques that allow you to gain insight into your audience, what they are looking for online, and how to give it to them.
iDesign Videos
Many thanks to George Grylls for taking videos of the iDesign conference on September 18. The first 23 of these have now been uploaded to YouTube.
iDesign - Working the Walk
We’re delighted to say that Tuesday’s iDesign conference went down a treat. If you wanted to know where exactly this country is up to with interactive design,and where it’s going, then we think the Dynamo team nailed it with this event.
iDesign Podcasts
We’re sure many of you will be heading to the iDesign conference at the South Bank Centre on Tuesday 18th September. There’s a great line-up of speakers covering topics across the world of interactive media and design, plus the latest projects from foremost practitioners on display. Tickets are available here if you haven’t booked yet.
This Year's Y Design Awards Open for Entry
UK digital designers are invited to submit their work into the 2007 Y Design Awards, part of the London Design Festival which runs from 18th to 25th September 2007.
iDesign - Design for Life
Our world is increasingly filled with wild and wonderful gadgets, new technologies, ground breaking digital services, but what does this really mean for the individual?
The Future of Web Design
At FOWD this Wednesday, keynote speaker Brendan Dawes speaker outlined interesting ways forward for creative designers. Ian Delaney was there to report.
Keyword Creativity in Web Design
"Keyword Creativity" is the process of understanding customer behaviour through keyword research and using the insights gained to drive the creative process. Ken McGaffin explains.
User Centred Design
Usability is a topic that's often taken for granted or viewed as a matter of mysticism and instinct. The web guru puts his or her finger in the air, checks the entrails and then pronounces whether your site 'works' or not. Ian Delaney looks at a better approach.
Social by design
The sell-out event, Beers & Innovation 6: Social by Design, took place on 14 November 2006. Large numbers gathered to discuss social software design, development and innovation and, of course, to drink beer. Elena Egawhary reports
China's Digital Sector Focus On Users
Dr Rachel Jones, founder of Cambridge design and innovation company Instrata, reports on the recent SESUN project user-centred design (UCD) workshop tour of China. The workshops, led by leading practitioners in the field, shed light on the levels of technological progress in the country...
Mobile Design Innovation & Older Users
The desire for a less cluttered, stress-free lifestyle is reaching into the sphere of mobile phones, according to recent research carried out by user-centred design company Instrata. But making phones accessible shouldn't mean dumbing-down, says Rachel Jones...
Flash Enhances Mobile User Experience
The new Flash Lite player lowers costs and development time, has a bigger developer community and is coming pre-installed on new handsets. Compared to WAP, it's a gift to mobile marketers seeking to develop richer mobile experiences says Gareth Evans...
Reinventing Web Design: Why Not?
The urge to bland-out designs and produce 'look-a-like' sites is part of a wider trend of the web gone stale. With new innovations such as blogs breaking free of the shackles, is it time for corporate sites go back to the drawing board wonders Marc Pinter-Krainer...
Usability: Subliminal U-Turns
A new twist in the usability debate poses yet more dillemmas for web designers, online advertisers, retailers and service providers. Michael Nutley extracts the positives from this scenario...
15 Web Design Secrets
How can you make sure that your web site is an effective marketing tool? Andrew Neitlich gives 15 top tips that he believes many web designers don't know about...
The Website Design Process - a Framework
Zoe Black, NMK's Programme Director, outlines a process for the design of interactive products such as websites.
The Global Design Myth
Zaid Hassan offers a critical examination of UK new media's global pretensions.
Tagged events
idesign Portfolio Clinic
- Date: September 17th, 2008
- Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, South Bank Centre, London
The chance to meet London-based digital media agencies and gain insight into portfolio presentation, best practice and what companies are looking for in potential employees.
idesign 08
- Date: September 17th, 2008
- Venue: Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London
A one-day event analysing and celebrating digital interactive media, which provides the main digital focus for the London Design Festival.
User Centred Design (NMK)
- Date: May 10th, 2007
- Venue: Central London TBC
Planning to redesign your site or make it work harder for you? This course takes you through a User Centred Design (UCD) process, looking at both theory and practice, giving you the confidence to commission and manage UCD. Do you want people to enjoy using your site? How can you help people find what they want? By using a range of cost effective and tried and tested techniques to put the user at the heart of your web design and development process.
User Centred Design (NMK)
- Date: February 6th, 2007
- Venue: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UX
Planning to redesign your site or make it work harder for you through usability and more? This course takes you through a User Centred Design (UCD) process, looking at both theory and practice, giving you the confidence to commission and manage UCD.
London Web Design Meetup
- Date: October 18th, 2006
- Venue: Horse & Groom, 128 Great Portland St, London, W1W 6PX.
London Web Design Meetup
User Centred Design (NMK)
- Date: September 12th, 2006
- Venue: 01Zero-One, Hopkins St, Soho, London W1F 0HS.
Planning to redesign your site or make it work harder for you through usability and more? This course takes you through a User Centred Design process, looking at both theory and practice, giving you the confidence to commission and manage User Centred Design (UCD).
User Centred Design (NMK)
- Date: May 23rd, 2006
- Venue: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW.
Planning to redesign your site or make it work harder for you through usability and more? This course takes you through a User Centred Design process, looking at both theory and practice, giving you the confidence to commission and manage User Centred Design (UCD).
User Centred Design (NMK)
- Date: March 9th, 2006
- Venue: University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW
Planning to redesign your site or make it work harder for you through usability and more? This course takes you through a User Centred Design process, looking at both theory and practice, giving you the confidence to commission and manage User Centred Design (UCD).
Got the message? Advertising Meets Interactive Design
- Date: March 2nd, 2006
- Venue: 01zero-one, Peter Street, Soho, London W1F 0HS
What can the disciplines of advertising and interative design learn from each other today about models of working and creating?
Creating Value: Exploiting Design Innovation
- Date: September 28th, 2005
- Venue: The Design Council, 34 Bow Street, London, WC2E 7DL.
Designers need to better protect and exploit their intellectual property (IP), but with a greater focus on innovation they could also create more IP
Interact! Games Meets Interaction Design
- Date: September 22nd, 2005
- Venue: 01zero-one, Peter St, Soho, London W1F 0HS.
Games design and interaction design have much in common. Both are mature disciplines and address sophisticated human-computer interactions. What can they learn from each other today about story telling, models of interaction, user research and testing, aesthetics, 'learnability' and product development?
Instructional Design For e-learning
- Date: September 20th, 2005
- Venue: Novotel, Hammersmith Intl. Centre, 1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London W6 8DR.
If you need to know how to design e-learning programmes that really succeed then you need to attend this seminar.
Trademarks & Registered Designs Clinic
- Date: August 24th, 2005
- Venue: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DB.
New! - clinics now offered in searching in trade marks and for registered designs.
Trademarks & Registered Designs Clinic
- Date: August 3rd, 2005
- Venue: The British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DB.
New! - clinics now offered in searching in trade marks and for registered designs.
Web Design Perfect Pitch
- Date: April 21st, 2005
- Venue: Brownscourt rooms, 82-84 St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4AA.
Net Imperative's "Perfect Pitch events," showcase the top suppliers in that field enabling you to go straight to the shortlist stage. Followed by drinks reception and networking
Matthew Carter - Typeface Design
- Date: February 22nd, 2005
- Venue: Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
The world's most influential typography designer, Matthew Carter, has developed many of the typefaces we use every day including Verdana, the most popular internet font. He will discuss the design of the typefaces we see in the Guardian, Time and New York Times.
Matthew Carter - Typeface Design
- Date: February 22nd, 2005
- Venue: Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
The world's most influential typography designer, Matthew Carter, has developed many of the typefaces we use every day including Verdana, the most popular internet font. He will discuss the design of the typefaces we see in the Guardian, Time and New York Times.
Speed Date for Graphic Designers
- Date: October 29th, 2004
- Venue: Gallery bar, 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London
Portfolio surgery and speed dating for East London graphic designers - a chance for up and coming designers to consult a range of experts for guidance on their work and careers. In association with D&AD and Digit Magazine.
Effective Layout and Design
- Date: October 25th, 2004
- Venue: Serco Usability Services, Holborn
Serco Usability Services is running a one-day course for anyone interested in learning practical techniques for creating user-friendly designs.
The inspiring art of film title design
- Date: September 9th, 2004
- Venue: Oyster Partners, 1 Naoroji Street, London WC1X 0JD
Film titles represent the combination of graphic design with the new media of the twentieth century. What we can learn from the design of film titles about the possibilities of type and movement in the new media of the twenty-first century?
AIGA Experience Design London
- Date: June 23rd, 2004
- Venue: Oyster Partners
Architecture and the design of urban spaces increasingly overlap with the design of digitally-enabled information, products and services. We no longer consider the virtual world to be parallel to the real world but an enhancement to it -- and one that can give us new perspectives on physical space.
Designing Your Future: Design Business Development Programme
- Date: May 25th, 2004
- Venue: Oxford House
This innovative programme is aimed at graphic, multi-media, web or interactive designers designed to provide relevant and professional information and challenging exercises that will improve your business.
Speed Date for Graphic Designers
- Date: October 29th, 2003
- Venue: Gallery bar, 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London
Portfolio surgery and speed dating for East London graphic designers - a chance for up and coming designers to consult a range of experts for guidance on their work and careers. In association with D&AD and Digit Magazine.
Cybersalon: Towards Humane Design
- Date: June 12th, 2002
- Venue: ICA
Cybersalon's evening of discussion, digital work and entertainment explores the tensions and issues faced by designers working to a commercial brief while maintaining a sense of social responsibility.
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