Posts Tagged ‘ design ’

Site redesign: Alamy.com

In the latter months of 2009 Alamy.com, a stock imagery site, ran a competition to redesign their homepage. That in itself was all well and good: throwing it open to the public and offering cash to the winner is a great way of engaging with their users and – incidentally – getting shitloads of design options [ READ MORE ]

Review of National Rail (www.nationalrail.co.uk)

Travelling a fair distance (120+ miles) each day getting to and from work means the train is really the only method of transport that works for me. As such, I am a regular visitor to the National Rail site (www.nationalrail.co.uk), and have been for a number of years. Predictably (why else would I be mentioning it?), [ READ MORE ]

Review of Associated Press (www.ap.org) site

Whilst looking for some news story providers, I decided to check out the AP (Associated Press) site, www.ap.org. I was after some quick info about news story feeds/aggregation, and possibly some stock imagery. What happened on my thrilling journey? What was their site like? I know you can’t wait to find out, really. It’s the only [ READ MORE ]

TV Licensing (www.tvlicensing.co.uk) site review

Everyone hates paying their TV license. There’s no escaping it, and it’s annoying to think we’re being made to fund the likes of Eastenders and other such guff. So how do they go about achieving this feat online? I am writing this whilst on the train, so here we have… A (short) review of www.tvlicensing.co.uk As mentioned already, [ READ MORE ]

This month’s Web Designer Magazine

It’s self-indulgent, but here you go: I’m in this month’s Web Designer Magazine (issue 163), delivering 100 words of carefully-crafted guff about my favourite worst website. Can you guess who’s it was? [ READ MORE ]

Similarities? clothingattesco.com vs schuh.co.uk

A short blog post for you this evening because I’m about to enjoy a cubic foot of brioche and custard. Sites do occasionally end up looking like each other out of chance: this I accept. However, is it just me, or can anyone else see a similarity between the homepage designs of www.clothingattesco.com & www.schuh.co.uk ? [ READ MORE ]

Riverisland.com review: an SEO failure.

After reading the rather good eConsultancy review of the recently relaunched M&S site, it got me in the mood for taking a look at what else was around in terms of online clothing retailers. I spotted an opportunity to review the website of high-street brand name River Island. Now, I’m no fashionista (updating my blog as [ READ MORE ]

Ryanair.com review

Having just been sent a great link to Ryanair’s response to the recent Panorama documentary, I thought I’d not only share it with you all (since it is inflammatory, funny and has a nice tongue-in-cheek approach to the whole thing), but also take a close – more critical – look at the Ryanair site.  Panorama [ READ MORE ]

Bethere.co.uk – I’ve changed my mind.

I took a good long look at the BE site this eve, and I’ve decided I don’t like it after all. Functionality is all well and good, but there’s a balance between functionality and … well, pants. Structurally, the IA is fine, but the design itself really needs re-doing. However, people on their forums need to [ READ MORE ]

A review of the new Schuh.co.uk site!

In the latest part of the on-going saga of my reviewing the Schuh website(s), they’ve relaunched their website today! So, without further ado… A review of the new www.schuh.co.uk site After my previous entries about the Schuh sites, you may recall some of the previous points: Ineffective design templates Bad site structure, both technically and IA-wise Bizarre graphics Inconsistent user journey Lack [ READ MORE ]