Ok so I am clearly not a prolific blogger but by way of an update work is keeping me extremely busy with a major rebuild of the football.co.uk front-end to improve the UX and provide a better platform to build on. Largely a lot of clearing of clutter and streamlining to improve the performance combined [...]

Been a while since the last update but have several exciting projects on the go which I will go into more detail on later. Also worth noting that I am getting around to integrating the various sites such as my coppermine gallery, portfolio and soon this blog. Will be something of a work in progress [...]

Patterns http://designingwebinterfaces.com http://uidesignpatterns.org/designPatterns http://ui-patterns.com/ http://uipatternfactory.com/ uipattern factory http://quince.infragistics.com/UX-Design-Patterns.aspx http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ http://www.welie.com/patterns/ http://www.patterntap.com Journals http://www.alistapart.com/ http://boxesandarrows.com http://wireframes.linowski.ca/ http://konigi.com/

The Power of a Positive No by William Ury. Never say no immediately. Don’t react in the heat of the moment, or you might say something you don’t really mean. Things are rarely as urgent as we believe them to be, so take a step back, go to your quiet place, and really think through [...]