Matthew Baxter joined Caplin as Head of UX Design in December 2012 Leading Caplin’s UX Design team from research through to visual design, Matthew is focused on ensuring Caplin products are appropriate, intuitive, fit for ...Read More
Category: UX
2 Minutes: Mark Cossey
Mark Cossey has been Senior User Experience Designer at Caplin since June, 2012. Mark takes two minutes to tell Jennifer Reid a little bit more about his experience at Caplin and what UX means to him. ...Read More
SuperSelector – A JavaScript GUI tool to generate CSS selectors
SuperSelector is a lightweight JavaScript GUI tool to help you generate 'smart' CSS selectors by simply Ctrl + Clicking anywhere on a web page. Easy to use - ...Read More
Our responsive web design workflow for caplin.com
For years I’ve used the same workflow when designing websites. Standard practice was to start with the content, wireframe, then design pixel perfect page layouts in Photoshop that would then be handed to a developer for the markup to be created. ...Read More
Reflections on UX Brighton 2012
Below is a review of my experience at UX Brighton 2012, if this comes across in a slightly aggressive tone, you're reading it wrong. :) I believe events of this kind can benefit from a more detailed review ...Read More
Microsoft Surface : A new platform for mobile HTML5 apps?
Today is launch day for Windows 8 and the many laptop / tablet hybrids that will come along with it. The slightly in your face metro UI is a big gamble for MS but it certainly looks touch friendly so I ...Read More
Sketching – a creative problem solving tool (for everyone!)
As a designer who sketches daily as a fundamental part of my creative and problem solving activity I am still surprised how often sketching is discussed within the UX community - as if it's a 'new thing' that one really should be doing. ...Read More
‘Magic Ink’ and the evils of interaction design!
Over on Coding the Markets there is an interesting discussion around Bret Victor and his treatise on UI design 'Magic Ink' from (2006) where he uncovers the evils of interaction design Here is my contribution ...Read More
Agile UX safari
Around fifty UX Agilistas descended on Caplin’s London office yesterday for an Agile UX Meetup event. It was great to see Martyn Jones from Mind Candy again as I enjoyed the previous event they had hosted. A small army ...Read More
Recommendations from inside an Agile UX environment
One year ago I joined Caplin as a UX designer. It was my first experience working on a true Agile environment and it took me some time getting used to, but I believe it can be done. The list below collects ...Read More