Andy Thornton
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- SummaryAndy Thornton is a UX Design Consultant with over 10 years of expertise creating intuitive, immersive and memorable digital experiences.Specialties: • User-Centered Design (UCD) • User Experience (UX) • Interaction Design (IxD) • Information Architecture (IA) • User Research • Digital Strategy • Persuasion Design • Design ThinkingExperience
- Jan 2011 - PresentLead User Experience Consultant (UX) / Fortune Cookie● Responsible for conceiving and leading effective digital solutions, using established and emerging user-centered design methodologies, evidence-based principles and innovative thinking. ● Ensuring a measurable return on investment (ROI) for clients, based on adding value through business analysis and audience insight, IA, IxD and creative expertise; across all digital channels, including web, mobile, email, and social media. ● Harnessing in depth knowledge across a broad range of industry sectors, including international non-profit organisations (Fédération Internationale de Basketball - FIBA, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS), Financial Services (Legal & General Investment Management - LGIM), and Government (London Borough of Camden)
- Nov 2008 - Dec 2010User Experience Consultant (UX) / Fortune Cookie
- Sept 2005 - Oct 2008Digital Designer / Fortune Cookie
- Sept 2005 - Sept 2008User Interface Developer (UID) / Fortune Cookie
- Jan 2000 - Aug 2008Web Designer (Creative / IA / IxD / UI Developer) / Freelance (Self Employed)
- 1999 - Jun 2003Web Manager / The Winning Line
Education-
1995 - 1998Birmingham City UniversityBA (Hons) in Fine Art
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Tweets
- Fashionable but is it user-centric to pre-emptively reject clients on the basis they aren't sufficiently knowledgeable about UCD? #tryharderMay 17, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @andybudd Pitching as much about UCD expertise as beauty contest in my exp. But anyway, complex debate is so undignified in 140characters :)
- @andybudd Um, yeah. I don't disagree on that. See prior tweets. Original message about achieving industry change buried somewhat. Nuff said.
- @andybudd Two solutions to same problem: 1 Mentor clients to be smarter 2 Get all agencies to behave ethically. Good luck with the latter :)
- @andybudd Not sure how walking away does either? Process remains broken, client remains dumb, good design remains elusive: they hire idiots
- @andybudd True! Agree with sentiment but maybe not execution. Think naive client behaviour change more likely with one foot thru the door.
- Death in a digital world: Who owns what you leave behind in the cloud when you die? http://t.co/vaH1lDvL more http://t.co/d5TM2vfj
- @rayvellest I must be one of the few who prefer the new logo. Old is blunt, boring. New is concise, striking and suggestive... of links.
- @VLCarey By the way, your photos were actually lovely, in case that wasn't make clear via my mock sarcasm.
- @VLCarey Oh... I won't forget *squinty eyes*
- RT @qikipedia: "95% of all #data in the world is still filed on paper. Most of it is never seen again. The average is once in 10 years."
- Wouldn't Twitter be more useful as a hive mind? What if all UXs defined a solution to a problem rather than linking to the same articles?
- @VLCarey ♥ NHS
- @VLCarey I didn't enjoy these. They made me feel a lingering sense of bitterness and resentment. Can I have my money back?
- @wickedgeekie Bit late to the party on this one but welcome to @fortunecookie Sophie. Enjoy Noo-Yoik!
- #Neuroscience battle: How much of You is a zombie automaton? http://t.co/n6VXKzGX
- @threefour Business Model Generation, without a doubt.
- @Wandster Interesting, but not entirely unexpected. Inflicting chaos is just more infinitely fun, surely?
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- Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a football website promoting classic soccer matches.
The aims of the website were to:
● Engage and immerse football fans in highly emotive content, through video highlights and exclusive interviews
● Encourage interaction and retention by providing opportunities to comment and rate matches
● Provide marketing sponsorship opportunities for brand partners
en.classics.uefa.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a teaser website to get more people playing 3on3 basketball.
The aims of the website were to:
● Generate buzz by elaborating on the features of the upcoming site
● Promote the 3on3 community through exposure of social media channels and activity
● Encourage player pre-registration
3x3planet.com - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a teaser website to get more people playing 3on3 basketball.
The aims of the website were to:
● Generate buzz by elaborating on the features of the upcoming site
● Promote the 3on3 community through exposure of social media channels and activity
● Encourage player pre-registration
3x3planet.com/ - Aug 14, 11
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Initial concepts for a teaser website to get more people playing 3on3 basketball.
The aims of the website were to:
● Generate buzz by elaborating on the features of the upcoming site
● Promote the 3on3 community through exposure of social media channels and activity
● Encourage player pre-registration
3x3planet.com/ - Aug 04, 10
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Concept sketches for an application to allow car hire customers to:
● Get roadtrip inspiration
● Create personalised travel itineraries
The final concept featured at the Microsoft digital conference Imagine 09
www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/europcar-microsoft-silver... - Aug 04, 10
cleverdigit posted a photo:
Concept sketches for an application to allow car hire customers to:
● Get roadtrip inspiration
● Create personalised travel itineraries
The final concept featured at the Microsoft digital conference Imagine 09
www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/europcar-microsoft-silver...
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Posts
- May 20, 12
Proto.io is a new UI prototyping tool specifically tailored for mobile and tablet applications. The web based environment allows you to start off by creating a project for iPhone, iPad, Android phones or tablets.
- May 20, 12
FF Chartwell is a tool for easily creating graphs, disguised as a font. It utilizes OpenType to interpret and visualize the data. The data also remains editable, allowing for painless updates.
- May 13, 12
Display responsive web designs by presenting how layouts scale to Desktop, Tablet and Mobile screens.
- May 13, 12
Reframer unlocks the power of collaborative research and team driven decisions. A value and feasibility based decision engine helps analyse and quantify qualitative data.
- May 13, 12
A research solution that supports task-based, true intent, and Voice of the Customer studies, as well as surveys, empowers you, as a user researcher, to meet business goals and make effective decisions.
- May 13, 12
SparkBlocks is a web-based tool that generates small and concise sparkline representations from a row of numerical data. Its unique feature is that the resulting graphs can be copied and pasted making social visualizations possible for all.
- May 13, 12
PageSpeed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates.
- Dec 10, 11
Cue is intended to be a foundational set of icons to build a standard visual language of touch-based interactions. Each gesture is distilled to its core action to exhibit a more figurative, iconic aesthetic.
- Oct 25, 11
To build a mobile site or not to build a mobile site; this is a question at the forefront of many a discussion. There is, however, another option: responsive web design. When, why, and how should you go about designing a responsive website?
- Oct 25, 11
Meaningful Transitions deals with the use of animations in the user interface. It documents transitions in a clustered way to show at which place transitions can be a helpful extension to the static user interface, because of cognitive benefits to enhance the user experience.
- Aug 26, 11
A collaborative design methodology for ideation: Illumination, Sketching, Presentation, Critique, & Iteration
- Aug 22, 11
"Digital-media junkies" are three times more likely to be early adopters of new technologies. This segment makes up 19% of McKinsey's survey, up 7% from 2008. The "Traditionalists" meanwhile make up 24% of the survey respondents, the same as in 2008. Traditionalists overwhelmingly do not own smartphones. They also have not yet adopted online media devices, such as tablets and e-readers.
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Tweets
- Photos from a trip to #Iceland in Feb. A beautiful country of unique contradictions: Still but dynamic. Like. http://t.co/GNQ1MEYB
- @nancetron Did you avoid eye contact, turn around and walk the other way?
- It's Friday: Commence with the dancing! http://t.co/mx8JWCFE
- @Elinesca I've heard its lovely but not been there myself.
- OH: "The Michelin man has lost weight!" LOLZ #shitmywifesays
- @Elinesca OK, you've convinced me. I'm pining for the fjords...
- @Elinesca My question is normally the opposite: Why the fuck did you move to London?! #dontgetit
- @Elinesca I love Norway and most Nordic stuff generally, but it is expensive... and don't they tax the shit out of you?
- Seemingly impossible to stay bug-free in London for more than 4 months at a time. #SickCity
- Dolphin Recession #HHG2G http://t.co/fQRgHPJj
- @Elinesca I'm only doing this to avoid reneging on a deal. Still the same misanthropic swine I always was. #dontthinklessofmeok
- @Elinesca Red. Norwegian. Female. Too practical? :)
- I'M GOING TO A FUCKING GYM TOMORROW. #sellout #societytoldmetodoit
- @Elinesca This sounds like a trick question...
- @nancetron Brilliant. Sounds like Cock Rock meets Geoffrey Boycott. I would be looking to get a Leg Bye in there somewhere.
- Okonomiyaki! @ Okan http://t.co/qgpI3yjQ
- @brainwaster Yup. Thought they did a pretty good job, plenty of fun, especially given the villain was such a dud. Great Hulk.
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So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
Epicurus
