Andy Thornton
Digital Experience Designer,
gamer, bleepaholic & social recluse
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Results, not noise.
Andy Thornton is a CX / UX Design Consultant with over 10 years of expertise creating intuitive, and immersive digital experiences.
A passionate advocate of design thinking and strategic business transformation to address the commercial challenges of connecting with consumers.
Only brands committed to consistent, relevant, and exemplary channel-agnostic interactions with their audiences are capable of thriving in today's customer-empowered age.
Experience- Dec 2012 - PresentExperience Director / POSSIBLE
- Jan 2011 - Dec 2012Lead User Experience Consultant (UX) / Fortune Cookie
- Nov 2008 - Dec 2010User Experience Consultant (UX) / Fortune Cookie
- Sept 2005 - Oct 2008Digital Designer / Art Director (AD) / 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
- @Elinesca You should watch The Apprentice: Just cat fighting and passive aggressive bullshit. I trust these are just the exception? ;)
- @wickedgeekie OK. I think a more direct way of addressing progress would be to progress the deliverables as agreed though. We should chat.
- @wickedgeekie Interesting idea. Knowing when to move beyond words is also important, especially in the design process http://t.co/An9jiFJ57K
- RT @markdrasutis: “If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings" @ideo
- @vivdoc "Remember, it's okay to cry."
- Meticulous as ever :) “@wickedgeekie: Am starting a new hashtag especially for @colinfranks :#neatlyfoldedjumpers. http://t.co/oxJb83BReW”
- Apparently, this is how: http://t.co/vimGCDaHtz @vivdoc :)
- Simplify.
- @dan0c Not many people doing the red Amasis thing :)
- I SEE UPPERCASE GOTHAM EVERYWHERE NOWADAYS. #type
- @msjaneaustin You might be able to create a beta account with this link (but I'm not sure, not very clear!) http://t.co/Yv6vDtI72C
- SWEET! According to @ingoodco, I'm closest to the Protector. Check out my work personality and discover yours http://t.co/UF0XIIYQvt
- Think I've just witnessed the very best persona amend markup by our very own @colinfranks. Feel like I can't repeat it though. #tease
- Sometimes dogma is OK. Pick a fucking #methodology. Stick to it. (Even if you never do it again next time round)
- @RupertHarrison I was amused by the slide about sitting in teams not disciplines. Also here's a good one I've discovered: Transdisciplinary
- Adobe flocking to the cloud. Soon you will own nothing that you do not pay a monthly subscription for. http://t.co/GWhVYugQ1h
- @HelloMarcOliver @possible website? No site o'mine but cheers for flagging.
- @wickedgeekie @HelloMarcOliver Odd because that's what I was up to 5 years AGO. The past, not the future.
- If you don't give people responsibility, they will act irresponsibly.
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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
- May 21, 12
A comprehensive reference for mobile design patterns. Whether designing for smartphones, featurephones or other related devices, common principles are discussed and codified as 76 universal interaction and interface patterns.
- May 21, 12
- 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.
- Aug 22, 11
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- Aug 23, 11
