One of the nicest sites I’ve seen for a while. Lovely design detail. Belongs to Storenvy.

Picked from this list on Smashing Magazine.

Love this video. It’s a presentation of facts at its best. Showing the progression of information technology researched by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod.

Another project I worked on at MRM London has picked up a BIMA award. It’s brilliant news. So proud of our achievement as a team and it definitely makes a good year’s work even more worthwhile. I’m going to post it here because I have a feeling it’ll be the last award-win I’ll be involved in for a while, and so I don’t forget about them [pauses to cry]. That’s not to say my current company is not good enough to win awards, but simply the nature of the sites we make here aren’t those likely to be shortlisted in many awards that I’ve seen.

It’s been a real privilege to be involved with two BIMA award winning projects in my time with MRM. I’m also going to use this post as a chance to look back at some of the work I did at MRM, my first meaty IA role. In fact I was just plain lucky that during my time there, we did some really interesting stuff. I think it’s probably the right time to talk about them now seeing as I’ll probably forget about all the work we did pretty soon.

Front of mind is the now ‘award-winning’ (woohoo!) ITM3 which was a fairly full-on Flash-based game where the poor old IT Manager would fix issues and optimise systems to grow a company and into a multinational; then we had ‘Intel Studio’ (which also won a BIMA award the year before) – a music competition site where artists could upload music, get voted on, perform gigs, and ultimately win a record deal; we also had an interactive mural where people can upload their own pictures and messages about the future to be part of a piece of online community art project; we built a site that housed an augmented reality experience; a search engine that trawled third-party sites for travel related images and content and presented the results as clouds floating over a skyline; a Facebook application; a product aggregator site; a news portal for hardcore gamers; and almost (before the projects died their respective deaths) an online community with all the community bells & whistles, and an online communication platform for pharmaceutical sales reps and GPs.

It was an amazing time, at an agency where I was allowed to learn my trade but also given a good balance of responsibility and guidance. I’ve learnt a great deal from these guys, many of whom I hope to work again with in the future … some of whom I already have.

Shown at tonight’s London IA that I left early from .. brilliant … they believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do – The fun theory.

Stumbled across this BBC iD registration page. It’s nicely executed. It’s informative, and visually engaging enough but not too cluttered. Couldn’t help but fill out those boxes even though I didn’t have any specific reason to register … how sad.