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Mobile app and website user experience design Visual engineering. Design

🖥️✨ to the Year 2000 ✨🖥️Back when the internet was still finding its voice, I had the chance to design news graphics f...
01/09/2025

🖥️✨ to the Year 2000 ✨🖥️

Back when the internet was still finding its voice, I had the chance to design news graphics for ZDNet UK News — a time when Web 1.0 reigned supreme. No dynamic content. No auto-play videos. Just static HTML, tables, and that unmistakable retro aesthetic that defined early digital media.

The designs were bold, blocky, and built to fit within 800x600 screens. Every GIF had to count. Every pixel mattered. These graphics carried the news in a world before mobile-first was even a concept.

Swipe to see some of those original designs — frozen in time, but still carrying that raw, Y2K energy. The images convey an interesting insight into the stories that were big at the time, around about the time of the dot com crash. I created hundreds of these designs!

🔹 Designed for Netscape & IE 5
🔹 Bright gradients, bevels, and glassy buttons
🔹 Optimized for dial-up speeds
🔹 Straight out of the Web 1.0 playbook

From the archives!

I believe this issue may stem from a Mac Mail algorithm or AI malfunction. Today, I ordered a watch battery via Amazon U...
01/06/2025

I believe this issue may stem from a Mac Mail algorithm or AI malfunction. Today, I ordered a watch battery via Amazon UK for £4.38. However, a few hours later, I was alarmed to see that Mail's predictive preview incorrectly displayed this purchase as £438. This error suggested an extraordinarily expensive watch battery!!?😟💲

Logo identity for a new web development startup: CodeShark . Lots of scope for creativity here!
16/12/2024

Logo identity for a new web development startup: CodeShark . Lots of scope for creativity here!

✨ Pantone 2025 Colour of the Year: Mocha Mousse ✨And the Pantone Colour of the Year 2025 is.... brown! Well, Mocha Mouss...
15/12/2024

✨ Pantone 2025 Colour of the Year: Mocha Mousse ✨

And the Pantone Colour of the Year 2025 is.... brown! Well, Mocha Mousse to be exact!😀https://www.pantone.com/uk/en/color-of-the-year/2025

Meet Pantone 17‑1230 Mocha Mousse: a rich, warming brown that evokes the comforting indulgence of cacao, coffee, and chocolate. It’s not just a colour—it’s a mood. 🍫☕

– Described by the Pantone Color Institute as conveying “thoughtful indulgence,” “sensorial warmth,” and “unpretentious luxury”.
-FashionUnited
-Greenhouse Management
-Vogue

– A soothing counterpoint to loud trends, embracing “quiet luxury” and harmony with the natural world.
-The Times
-FashionUnited

Even in this digital age, one cannot beat the speed and ease of drawing out a flow or process on a physical whiteboard. ...
06/01/2023

Even in this digital age, one cannot beat the speed and ease of drawing out a flow or process on a physical whiteboard. Here at Stan Smith VISUAL ENGINEERING we have 5 whiteboards in the studio!

Companies should start with the end (experience) first!
15/11/2022

Companies should start with the end (experience) first!

A recent rail travelling experience observation – I had a reserved seat in coach H. On boarding, I had seconds to figure...
09/09/2022

A recent rail travelling experience observation – I had a reserved seat in coach H. On boarding, I had seconds to figure out where carriage H was – as the train didn't stop long and the platform at Bodmin (and train itself) was very busy, slight chaos. I had a real drama working my way through the carriages and it was only long after I found the right place – and halfway through the journey – I saw the reason for my confusion when the train stopped at Taunton (see pic) which had a handy info screen (that I did not get at my station at boarding). What happened to carriages E, F & I? Why do train companies do this with the carriage ordering – and mess with my expected 'mental model' of all things in order, non missing, alphabetical?😊

One of the biggest influences on my design work over the past years has been Microsoft's design language guidelines. Tho...
16/08/2022

One of the biggest influences on my design work over the past years has been Microsoft's design language guidelines. Those days of Windows 8 Mobile and the 'Metro' design system – 100% authentically digital and influenced by Swiss typography – were strikingly minimalist and wonderfully fresh at the time - and still are imho. Shame Android & iOS came along in some ways with their monopolies and crushed Windows Mobile and won the battle for mobile supremacy! Windows Mobile is dead. Long live Microsoft Design Language principles in design projects!

I have been delighted to work with 4SquareIT – a successful IT consultancy covering the areas west of London & the Thame...
16/08/2022

I have been delighted to work with 4SquareIT – a successful IT consultancy covering the areas west of London & the Thames Valley corridor – on a new visual identity and branding!

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