Easter Bunny Co Ltd.

Have chickens have finally sussed those pesky rabbits?

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Blackberry and Apple Pie.

Something tasty to byte into (*groan*)?

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Off the Beaten Track by Jonathan Marsh as published in Stop Talking, Start Doing: A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts by Shaa Wasmund and Richard Newton, Capstone Publishing Ltd 2011. This is one of seven doodles of mine that appear in this book - it’s been doing extremely well in the business book chart at WHSmith travel stores so you can get yourself a copy at most railway stations, airports, service stations, etc or you can buy it online from Amazon. The original doodle is just below this one.

Off the Beaten Track by Jonathan Marsh. Published in Stop Talking, Start Doing by Shaa Wasmund and Richard Newton, Capstone Publishing Ltd 2011.  This book, which contains 7 of my doodles, has been doing extremely well in the business book chart at WHSmith travel stores so you can get yourself a copy at most railway stations, airports, service stations, etc or you can buy it online from Amazon.

What clients want.

Whilst the client’s view is very important (they’re paying the bill, after all!), it doesn’t necessarily make for a compelling user experience. Ultimately, it really does pay to find out what customers really want from a website.

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What users want?

I found this to be a surprisingly common refrain when working in financial services. The idea that digital design is not decoration and actually helps people find information still appears to be a novel one in some sectors.

Equally novel, sometimes, is the idea that the best people to tell you what your customers actually want are your customers.

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Are icebergs merely icecubes in the cocktails of God(s)*? (Part 2)

My cousin Jo came up with this theory and this is the second of two doodles. The first doodle on this theme is 20 Doodle-Blog posts down from here.

* Singular/plural deities dependent on your monotheistic/polytheistic preference. 

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User-testing.

I’ve conducted and attended quite a bit of user-testing over the years. Occasionally, you get a client who wants to blame users rather than bad design for people finding their websites difficult to use (The penny usually drops after the second or third user encounters the same issues).

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Giving something up for Lent?

This is becoming more popular again but, it seems to me, that people do give up some slightly questionable things.

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Happy Pancake Day!

Hope your pancake-flipping is more successful than this.  This may go some way to explaining how men manage to use every pot, pan and utensil in the kitchen when they cook.

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And this is my other half.

I’ve always found this to be a rather odd expression.

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Human Sugar-Cube.

The theory goes that the whole human race - if reduced to neutrons and protons and none of the space in-between - would be the size of a sugar cube.

Richard Newton’s blog post “The sugar cube factor” explores this idea in relation to our use of time.

I’m no linguist so, for this doodle, I did my best with Google Translate - humble apologies if I’ve got anything wrong in any of the foreign language voice bubbles!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

This is a special DoodleBlog post for @WriterCharlie

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