Prototyping

Plot Your Life for Fortis

Realising the Fortis strapline “Life’s a Curve”, the Lifeplotter site encourages users to explore the Fortis brand by plotting key life events on an animated graph. The site is a cross between a rich internet application and an advert. Read on »


Localised PaperVision3D Site for Toshiba

At the time of launch, the Portégé was the world’s lightest fullsize laptop. The site features a 3d menu, built with PaperVision3D and explores a theme of weightlessness. The build was based on my localisation framework and the site was launched in 17 counrties, in 15 different languages.
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Two Synching Banners for Jacob’s Creek

Here are a couple of fun banners I built for global brand Jacob’s Creek, makers of fine Australian Wine. Both where built for Flash 6 (ActionScript 2).
The first, entitled “Palette” is nice and simple. It’s a paint-by-numbers picture of the place, Jacob’s Creek (yes there really is one). Once finished with the paint-by-numbers the creek [...] Read on »


User Interface Design for Internet Explorer

One of the big new media coups of 1999 was Microsoft asking Nykris to design the UI for the next version of Internet Explorer for Mac. Apple’s iMacs were selling like hot cakes and big M wanted in. So Microsoft came to hip Hoxton for a bit of Nykris magic.
Under Nikki Barton’s excellent art direction, [...] Read on »