Andy Thornton
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gamer, bleepaholic¹ & social recluse²
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- SummaryAndy Thornton is a UX Design Consultant, with over 10 years of expertise creating intuitive and immersive 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
- The brain is divided into fast vs slow processes where physical, cognitive or emotional energy is shared http://t.co/2f5uFORz
- @Malarkey I've witnessed the aftermath of a 3-2-1 once or twice
- @odannyboy Using the wrong bathroom? If you see a woman in there, that's a clue.
- Collaborative brainstorming doesn't work. Is it wrong of me to agree? http://t.co/zCMlfWus #outoffashion
- Just had a Wikipedia #SOPA blackout moment. And here's me thinking one day wouldn't be a problem.Jan 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Commend Wikipedias #SOPA blackout, but won't appreciate -1 day. A week without Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter? Now there's a protest.
- Why Some #Languages Sound Fast: Spaniards sprint and Chinese stroll but both tell the same story in the same time span http://t.co/g9vVdmdR
- The challenge of signage: Reminding you to forget about doing something http://t.co/xOs3TlYM
- US Marines using #iPad for air strikes http://ow.ly/6xhw7
- Terror Management Theory: Cultural, philosophical and religious systems exist to promise us #immortality. http://ow.ly/6eSgx
- The fragility & fallibility of memory: Implanting or unearthing falsehoods via #memory engineering easier than you think http://ow.ly/6eRPX
- The Future of #Game Design: The use of #biometrics and pyschographic profiles could deliver the next level of immersion http://ow.ly/6dRGM
- A collaborative #design #methodology for #ideation: Illumination, #Sketching, Presentation, #Critique, & Iteration http://ow.ly/6dRbs #UX
- People who doodle learn faster: http://ow.ly/6em0s If only we could all #doodle as well as @cognitive_media http://ow.ly/6em8t #sketchnotes
- Handling #personalities within your team: #Perfectionist, #Innovator, #Mixologist & #StandardBarer http://ow.ly/6dPhb http://ow.ly/6dPhs
- The Paradox of #Choice: Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives obstruct social change? http://ow.ly/6epm9 @theRSAorg
- There's a #UX inside us all (Completely disagree with the new media vs old media analysis within tho) http://ow.ly/6dNRn #PostIt #wall
- The Selfishness of Trust: #Trust may be derived from the expectation of #rewards from others http://ow.ly/62TAT
- Bad day to forget headphones. 'Bout 3 days worth of work to do in 7 hours before holiday… only do-able with Venetian Snares!Aug 25, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Posts
- 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
- 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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Good design: • Is innovative • Makes a product useful • Is aesthetic • Makes a product understandable • Is unobtrusive • Is honest • Is long-lasting • Is thorough down to the last detail • Is environmentally friendly • Is as little design as possible
- Aug 22, 11
For Google an increase in page load time from 0.4 second to 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20%. For Amazon every 100 ms increase in load times decreased sales with 1%.
- Aug 22, 11
40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. A 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions.
- May 19, 11
The Brains, Behavior & Design Toolkit features five tools to help designers apply findings from the field of behavioral economics to their practice in order to provide a head start on framing research as well as developing new strategies for solving user problems.
- Mar 29, 11
Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine standards.
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Posts
- Jul 27, 10
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Tweets
- Some lovely production design sketches from #Bladerunner http://t.co/kwrFD2VO
- @brainwaster Trains running again. All is well. Rape in the valleys unlikely.
- Stranded in rainy Cardiff
- My first 4 series of Mad Men were consumed in this manner: http://t.co/GDTFMfHD #tvmarathon #portlandiaJan 21, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- BTW I do sometimes tweet about web stuff. Just not here. Here: @cleverdigit
- @quidco being very slippery about a pretty large and considerably overdue @marksandspencer cashback claim. Faith in both parties waning fastJan 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @rickygervais best Golden Globes hosting yet. Loved it. Gotta come back next year now, surely?
- @asjb LOTR in itself can bring hours of alternate casting entertainment: Buscemi as Gollum, Damon & Affleck as Merry & Pippin, etc etc.Jan 16, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Always loved a bit of alternate casting RT @asjb Old style movie posters designed for modern movies http://t.co/FNeelR8Y
- Merry Christmas, heathens. Peace and high-fives to baby Jesu & co. http://t.co/NEBZyYU4
- #Prometheus trailer has just enough cues for me to start conspiracy riffing #Alien origins and getting mad at Ridley. Mission accomplished?Dec 23, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Gentleman Losers: Perfect soundtrack to a Cormac McCarthy novel. Sublime. http://t.co/qePp3KFP #music
- 4 of 5 stars to All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy http://t.co/m0ttac0i
- Cameron is such a massive bell end. Happy Friday! #EUcock
- Not sure why Fabio is so relieved. Think England will really struggle in that group. #euro2012
- @JeffVanCampen @fortunecookie If you have any second-hand cars, consider them sold
- The Ethics of Designer Brains: As biotechnology takes huge strides forward, what does the future hold for neuroethics? http://t.co/Nx3KLE2G
- Concocted the perfect anti-cold grog: Gold Kili ginger drink, mulled cider, splash of honey. #Lemsip optional. Not for the faint hearted.Nov 27, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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