Author Archives: Si Atherley

Client-facing skills: Simon’s top 10 tips for success

Here are my top 10 tips for handling your clients. Based upon my own hard-won experience, they have helped me successfully deliver complex digital solutions, such as web sites, touch-screen kiosks and software. I consider them crucial to project success…

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How to create a great user experience that’s also great for your business

Always remember, web sites that look good and navigate well, feel good too… And a website that feels good to use is far more likely to encourage users to do what you would like them to do. This can be … Continue reading

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How to win in Formula 1 with UX Design

I recently attended a couple of excellent talks given at a Northern User Experience meetup, where Patrick H Lauke expounded the virtues of HTML5 while Matt Clark demonstrated the raw power of effective UX design. Jolly good stuff all round, and many thanks to Keith Doyle for making it … Continue reading

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Web standards: reet grand or rather nice?

Anyone living in Yorkshire having previously having lived most of their life in the south, say, for example in London, (where I spent most of my career before starting a new business ‘oop north), will have been struck on first … Continue reading

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Freelancer bliss: Keeping your Illustrator artwork manageable (1)

Working as a freelance web developer or artworker, tight deadlines and different working methods across studios mean you need to be on your toes when it comes to working smart and fast.

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