My Name is Benjy, I’m a Designer at James Good.

Stickiness and Lumpy Bits

I really enjoyed Andy Davies’s talk on mobile site performance at Port80 2013, but one fact in particular stood out for me…

Port80 2013

Notes and links to further reading from my talk at Port80 2013.

Crafting Animation on the Web

I’m going to be speaking about animation on the web at Port80 in May. In short, I’m hoping to answer the following questions…

Animation as a Design Material

In an excerpt from her book The Mobile Frontier, published on Smashing Magazine, Rachel Hinman talks about how animation and movement is becoming a new mobile design material. (In fact, I think much of her article can be applied to web design as a whole, and not just mobile.)

Immersive Animation on the Web

I just got back from the New Adventures conference in Nottingham, and one of the stand out talks for me was from Jon Tan. The talk, titled Billboards and Novels, was all about typography on the web, but it got me thinking about animation too.

On Knolling

Darren taught me new word this week – knolling – it’s the act of arranging objects in an orderly fashion. An example might be grouping all the things on your desk and placing them parallel to the edge in a grid-like fashion.

An Excuse for a Blockquote

“Design is as much about absorbing things as it is creating them. It’s as much about removing things as it is adding new ones.”

— Me, just now.