Over two years in the making, with over 1000 contributors, Drupal 7 will be officially released on the 7th of January 2011. This is a big achievement and to celebrate the Drupal community are planning hundreds of launch parties in cities all around the World. All of us from i-KOS will be joining in with the celebrations at the London Launch party hosted by Microsoft. Tickets are free but limited, so register to get yours soon!
i-KOS, the company I work for, has become the first Acquia approved Drupal Training Partner in the UK.
Following on from my mass post-it note session, Sketchboarding, a couple of hours of clarity , I retreated back to my Mac to produce a sitemap. Using the sketchboard method, learned from Leah Buley at UX London 2010, allowed for rapid and easy re-working of my thoughts. With clarity of vision, I moved to creating a sitemap using a mix of Omni Outliner and Omni Graffle. With this run out and stuck together, all 12 A3 sheets of it, I returned to our Ideas Room and stuck it up on the wall.
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Sketchboarding is a rapid, flexible design method, which delivers results fast. It’s a technique which Leah Buley from Adaptive Path teaches extremely well via Adaptive Path’s workshop ‘Good Design Faster’, which I managed to catach while at the recent UX London 2010. For a full description and great video check the Adaptive Path blog post Sketchboards: Discover Better + Faster UX Solutions.
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Second week into the New Year and our first new site to go live is for Olivers Mill who are a cleaning and maintenance company, based in London and Kent. With new van liveries rolling out at the end of last year, Olivers Mill required a refresh for their current site to help move their branding along.While the previous site was still looking fresh from it’s 2009 redesign, company director Scott Sumner asked if there was anything we could do to bring the website into line with the new van livery? read more…
So another website went live and I forgot to tell the world. A little while back i-KOS were approached to produce a website for an air-conditioning installation company. Not a very glamorous product, but the guys at Skuddair are very good at their job and have completed numerous installs and are pushing forward new ways to use air-conditioning.
Having helped to develop the CANSO brand over 2008 i-KOS were invited to provide an initial design concept and later awarded the task of producing all the creative for the project. Web development was to be undertaken by a seperate company in the Netherlands. Once started, the scope of the project expanded to include the following:
Once signed off we provided a complete web-kit to the development team in the Netherlands, who promptly built the site.
CANSO is the global voice of ATM (air traffic management) and represents the interests of Air Navigation Services Providers worldwide, plus the companies that provide services to this industry.
White Associates, a building services engineers, came back to i-KOS to re-build their existing website. While they were happy with the current overall design, as their business had moved on a lot, this needed to be reflected in the website. Where the previous site was a quick-build to help as White Associates get started, this version of the site was to have a lot more functionality and as such required re-building in a Content Management System (CMS).
This is a nice little site that’s just been set free plott.co.uk Working with this particular client was a refreshing change. They were happy for us to take the lead with design and strategy, which lead to a very smooth work flow. From start to current state only took a fortnight. Which, given the nature of jobs that has to be approved by many different people, is very good.
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Just taken delivery of some file copies of the latest stationery design and print job. This is for a client called Agency3, they’re an invite-only Affiliate network. We created the Agency3 logo and website a while back and this is the first print print job completed.
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