RESOURCES
RICHARD
DAVEY
Game engine developer, Phaser
phaser.ioBack in the early 2000s, we were
approached by the BBC charity Comic
Relief to work on a website for the Dubble
chocolate bar. Dubble was a really early
champion of Fairtrade chocolate and
helped spearhead the initiative. The site
was great fun, full of cartoon characters
and delicious imagery. As it was Comic
Relief, we didn’t charge for the build and
were instead paid in chocolate! After the
launch a huge pile of boxes arrived. They
don’t sell Dubble bars any more but to this
day I couldn’t face eating another one.
COLE STEVENS
Associate creative director at
50,000feet
50000feet.comWhen you think of retirement communities, your
first thoughts may not be positive. The process of
vetting and selecting a new home is never easy. This is
why getting to design and develop a family of websites
for Grace Management, a leader in the senior living
space, meant a lot to us. We were addressing, through
design, the emotions and daunting tasks associated
with this particular moment in life. Our solution created
an experience that’s consistent; one that users could
trust and count on. Maybe “most fun” isn’t the best
way to describe it but it was certainly rewarding.ANNA
STARK
Lead designer, Nemo Design
nemodesign.comRecently, I jumped on a grenade for a web design project for Aviara Boats, a
new luxury boat brand from Nemo in partnership with MasterCraft Boat
Company. Led by Nemo’s web goddess Rita Gonsalves, our team completely
rethought how we approach UX and web design in general, allowing us to work
within a bananas timeline. Using some ass-kicking new modelling tools and our
assassin-level design skills, we fast-tracked wireframes all the way through to a
live site. The payoff of being able to test our designs in real-time was by far the
most fun and rewarding part of the project.
SITEINSPIRE: FUN WEBSITES
http://www.siteinspire.com/websites?categories=44
If you need a quick reminder of the
creative anarchy that exists on the web,
head to this selection by Siteinspire, which
includes a superb range of colourful and crazy
designs that are as far away from dull
convention as you can get.
CONNECTING WITH USERS:
INCORPORATING HUMOR IN WEB
DESIGN
https://netm.ag/2V3t0I3
In this post for Smashing Magazine, Victor
Yocco explores how to use humour in your
design – both in the process and the product –
to create a positive user experience.ADRIAN
ROSELLI
Accessibility/UX consultant
adrianroselli.comBack in the days of my web/
software company (the forgotten
1990s), we built a website for a (now
defunct) beef jerky company called
JerkTown USA. Its mascot was a
farmer in overalls. The client wanted an
animation on the home page with the
mascot eating a giant stick of beef
jerky. We tried to convince him it might
be... odd. Even with his approval, it
ended up looking as uncomfortable as
you can imagine. After launch, one of
the team embedded the Hamster
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FAVOURITE UX TREND “CASUAL
AND FUN”
usablemachine.com/meet-our-favorite-ux-trend/
Mia Stigsnæs identifies a new tone of
voice appearing in UX design: a “relaxed,
friendly and joyful attitude towards users”,
that’s changing how people interact with sites.