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If a project has any hope of a successful outcome, you have to set expectations correctly from the beginning.
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If a project has any hope of a successful outcome, you have to set expectations correctly from the beginning.

Lightmaker was recently featured in Net Magazine for our work on the new Fulham FC website. It wasn’t possible to include the names of all the team members in the article so I want to do it here.

Whenever I see products aimed at an audience with special needs I’m intrigued – how can they help me design better digital products for blind people?

A project that I came to late at Lightmaker was the creation of The Rest is Noise website (TRIN) for the Southbank Centre. TRIN is a year long festival celebrating New York music critic Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise …

I’m a massive fan of The Walking Dead comics and TV show. When a friend recommended the XBLA Walking Dead adventure game, I was hesitant at first. But I’m glad I gave it a chance.
I’ve been struggling with an engaging way for presenting stakeholder findings back to clients for a while now. Creating a document and presentation that is engaging, interesting and valuable always seemed out of reach, until I had some help from …

Continuing it’s successful run, the Fulham FC website has been awarded an IMA Best in Class Award in the Sports category for 2012.

During a difficult week (actually a month) at work, some welcome respite came courtesy of Econsultancy. They wrote a piece about the miserable user experience offered by Premiership football teams and singled out Man City and Fulham FC as contrasting …
I saw a great presentation at Reasons to be Appy ’12 in Londonthis year. Tim Ahrens gave a great presentation on Typography and a golden rule for key selectors to improve readabiltiy. I didn’t note them down and thought I’d lost them …

Photographs and film from the past tell us more than they were ever created to. They are a document of times gone by and tell stories about how people lived their lives.

I heard about the Government’s plans to relax live music laws yesterday and think it’s great.