Blogging:
Redesign of Justgiving.com
It’s been quite busy 6 months (I guess, you might have noticed that by the lack of updates). I was contracting for JustGiving, a company in central London, that helps UK charities raise money online, working on the redesign of their website justgiving.com. Was brought in for a week, but stayed for a little longer :)
It was a great experience to work on an in-house project, quite different from working in agency, what I am used to. As a lead front-end developer I was (obviously) doing a lot of HTML and CSS, some jQuery and helping with User Interface redesign. And the good thing was I have also learned a lot from the guys I was working with, so big cheers to the lovely JustGiving team, and especially to @kaichanvong, my extremely enthusiastic half-oriental co-front-end-developer-slash-designer, @wilcolley, a sneaker-freek designer, and of course smart-ass mac-fan-boy UX-slash-UI-slash-IA pro @simondoggett.
We had a lot of fun together, playing pranks on Kai, sharing our obsession with Apple products and all sorts of men’s toys and gadgets that were periodically delivered to us, and of course having a countless number of lunches at that awesome sushi place (God I miss that place, was already being treated like a regular there).
Yeah, that was a good time with a bunch of geeks with SLR cameras, netbooks and ‘I am a PC’ stickers on their belongings (well, some of them), people who would rather post on tweeter than use IM or email. I also think they had the record percentage of iPhone owners among random reference group, and the percentage keeps growing steadily.
I’ve done my job, the website is going to be launched very shortly and my contract is over right before my family is coming to visit me for the fist time since I have moved to London, so next couple of weeks I am going to be busy again being a London guide and a general entertainer.
See you guys later, I will surely come to visit you.
mStand from Rain Design arrived
My laptop stand has finally arrived. Yay! They got them back in stock in UK so I happily ordered it on a Friday night. The stand is lovely and sits great with my MBP (no I should probably say ’stands’ well, since it is a stand : ), and it goes hand-in-hand with apple’s ergonomics. From my experience (I tried it before) that’s the best laptop stand, but what I was actually surprised with was… the packaging. It’s really really nice, cubic and with a handle for a convenient handling :) I like it so much that I am actually going to keep it :) Well, until we run out of our storage space.
Another thing which amazes me, when I think about it, is how much the personal recommendation matters. Laptops, headphones, bags, hard drives, all sort of accessories… I am probably a collective look of my friends and people I communicate on a daily basis. Well, the choice of my gear. Yeah, we probably look ridiculously the same. But hey, at least when know what things work when we go to buy them :)