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Creative Application Design

User Centred Design

User Centred Design

Best practices in UCD as defined in ISO 9241 for maximum usability and superior user experience.

Business-to-Business

Business-to-Business

Mission critical business applications, such as commodity trading platforms for investment banking.

Business-to-Consumer

Business-to-Consumer

Consumer focused applications, such as retail e-commerce, entertainment and utility applications.

Services

Vision

Vision

Product conceptualisation and planning, brainstorming, requirements capture, process flows and communications.

Insight

Insight

Audience segmentation and analysis, user profiling, user personas, ethnographic studies, and experience mapping.

Architecture

Architecture

Information architecture, including organisational schema, screen mapping, navigation and taxonomy and labelling.

UI Design

UI Design

High quality design artefacts: wireframes and design comps for any digital channel, including native mobile apps.

Prototyping

Prototyping

Live fully interactive prototyping for product review, input to front end development, or conducting usability trials.

Accessibility

Accessibility

Full accessibility audit and reporting to ensure compliance with the Equality Act (EQ) and global legal requirements.

Information Systems

Information Systems

Big data solutions and visualisation, such as clinical trials data for the pharma sector.

Strategy

UX Design Strategy

Establish best practices for your business and build up your user experience design capability.

Geofencing & Proximity

Geofencing & Proximity

Location based service design, including positioning, geofencing and proximity beacons.

Platforms

Responsive / Mobile Web

Responsive/Mobile Web

Responsive Web Design for browsers on all devices.

Native Mobile Apps

Native Mobile Apps

Native mobile apps for all iOS and Android devices.

Desktop Software

Desktop Software

Full desktop software design for Mac and Windows.

Digital Signage

Digital Signage

Floor and wall signage for advertising and information.

Media Kiosks

Media Kiosks

Media kiosks, such as NHS check-in and info systems.

TV

TV

STB system and menus, and Red Button applications.

Bentley
Virgin Media
Deutsche Bank
Vodafone
Sephora
Sky
Amazon
Natural History Museum
BMW
Barnes and Noble
RSPB
Legal and General
Boden
Rolls Royce
Ebay
RBS
SmithKline Beecham
BT
Virgin Trains
DEFRA
Nomura
Atos
London Dairy Exchange
Société Générale
Booths
Blacks
British Library
London Underground
BBC
Tesco Mobile
Crag Hoppers
Thomson Reuters
Sporting Bet
Swinton Insurance
Audi
NHS

Portfolio

Portfolio Request

An extensive portfolio of work samples can be made available on request. Client designs are obviously sensitive in nature and usually subject to NDA. So distribution is carefully monitored. However, some work examples are shown here to give you an indication of design quality.

If you would like to view the full portfolio, please email your details and state the services of interest to you. You will then receive instructions for accessing the portfolio.

Email me at: ux@colinshanley.com

 

Published Works

I have worked as a commissioned author for more than three decades. I also write the occasional book on UX matters. As an example, here’s a couple of books that you can get for your Kindle...

Book cover - Cracking Information Architecture
Book cover - Cracking Accessibility on Mobile Devices

Bentley Connected Car

The Bentley Connected Car (BCC) app allows Bentley owners to access and control their vehicles remotely (including the new hybrid range). Owners can control car functions, such as locking/unlocking doors and reviewing stats and gauge readings, as well as programming journeys and satnav remotely. Owners can also purchase luxury services through the app. 

Initially designed for iOS devices, including notifications through the Apple Watch. Built as an interactive design prototype. The screen mock-ups were designed in Sketch and the prototype created in Flinto.

Rail Ticketing App

Avantix is an Android app used by guards on trains to query ticket timetable and fare information (around 90m different ticket types, nationally) and then sell tickets to passengers. The guard can also apply discounts for different rail cards.

I was commissioned to design an interactive prototpe of the ticket selling process. I created this prototype in Axure RP.

ACT

The Accessibility Colour Toolbox (ACT) is an application for analysing the contrast of colour pairs. Built for both designers and develoeprs, ACT enables users to select foreground and background colours to ensure that the contrast ratio of foreground text to background colour (the contrast ratio) conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) published by the W3C. Unusually, the app also supports vairable opacity for text. I designed the entire application.

This Website!

I am not a developer, I am an application designer. But I believe in order to be a true UX expert, a solid understanding of various development platforms and technologies is essential.

This is never more true than with Front-End Development for websites (HTML, CSS and Javascript).

I need a website, of course, and one that is refreshed regularly. So, as a design exercise, I decided to not only design a new website, but to code it as well.

I did everything you see here. From the creative visuals and iconography, down to the code itself. I hope you appreciate this website, but please don’t commission me to build one – I'm a designer! But it does hopefully show that I collaborate closely with developers so that they can build one for you.

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