Andrew Smallwood

Category: UX

Web framework

Design process: Picking a frontend framework

Posted May 14, 2020

What are frontend frameworks and more importantly, what are my favourites?
Dowload Foundation

Design process: Using Foundation locally

Posted May 12, 2020

Find out how I use Foundation locally to kickstart my web development
AJ Smallwood 2020 design concept

Design process: Initial designs

Posted May 11, 2020

The next stage in my redesign project covers initial designs using Sketch. Yes, Sketch, not Figma!
Picking a font

Design process: Picking a font

Posted May 4, 2020

Find out how I research and select fonts to use within my projects.

Design process: Selecting colours

Posted May 1, 2020

Check out my process to research colour in order to create your own palette to use for your brand
AJ Smallwood website 2017

Documenting my redesign

Posted April 23, 2020

I’ve taken the opportunity to document my approach to brand and web design
Reimagining the WWE Network

Research of the WWE Network

Posted December 15, 2018

I’ve been carrying out research for my project to reimagine the WWE Network. Find out who won the prizes!
Reimagining the WWE Network

Reimagining the WWE Network

Posted November 25, 2018

Introducing my project on the WWE Network, take the survey and you may win a WWE Network gift card.
Ryan Air itinerary page

Ryan Air – The worst website in the world?

Posted June 1, 2013

I could really go to town on the Ryan Air website – it’s absolutely awful. You may say that they are actually clever and have inluded ‘Dark Patterns’ within their designs but I would have to disagree. Going on their website is like stepping back 20 years. The colours are awful, there’s no thought to… Read more »

ACA Certified

How hard is it to achieve ACA Accreditation?

Posted March 15, 2012

A few weeks ago I attended a course in Adobe Photoshop in an effort to achieve ACA accreditation. I was really looking forward to it because throughout 2011, I had already achieved accreditation from Google for AdWords and Hootsuite so to achieve a certificate from Adobe would rank highly along side them and display my… Read more »

Responsive web design by Ethan Marcotte

Back to blogging with a new design

Posted January 29, 2012

It was definitely a major buzz word during 2011 and I had always planned to ‘get round to it’ but as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day, well probably when the haze lifted a few days later, I decided that 2012 would be the year I revolutionise my approach to web design. I’d… Read more »

Will Facebook stop at nothing to take over the world?

Posted August 27, 2010

Is Facebook going to kill off web design as we know it? Will every company’s web presence be determined by that familiar minimalistic tabbed interface and profile pic? Will people forward all their domains onto their facebook page? I don’t think they’ll take over the web completely but it is definitely frightening about the potential routes they could take.