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	<title>Shortboredsurfer</title>
	
	<link>http://shortboredsurfer.com</link>
	<description>I'm a user experience designer and web strategist as well as mediocre surfer, snowboarder and mountain biker. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine and do not represent those of my employers, they can get their own opinions.</description>
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		<title>User Experience books for beginners on UXBooth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in April the nice people at UXBooth asked me if I&#8217;d like to write a blog post for them. At the time having noticed a lot of great looking books on the horizon from the likes of Donna Spencer and the boys from ClearLeft, Cennydd Bowles and James Box, I thought I&#8217;d put together [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>11 Principles of Interaction Design explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in July I posted a presentation on Slideshare highlighting 11 key interaction design principles. Some of the feedback I received asked if I could share my notes from the presentation which is exactly what I’m doing now. This post isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list of interaction design principles, its merely an introduction to [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>11 Principles of Interaction Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following short presentation was put together for our fortnightly ux meetups at Redweb. It covers 11 principles of Interaction Design. It&#8217;s not intended as an exhaustive list, simply an introduction to the subject. I added the presentation to Slideshare a couple of months ago but just recently it&#8217;s had a few people watching and [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Simplifying voter registration: my small part in the general election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the General Election only a couple of weeks away the website I designed for the Electoral Commission, aboutmyvote.co.uk, has received quite a bit of news coverage. As I mentioned in my previous post, at the end of last year we were the proud recipients of a BIMA award for Best Informational Website beating the likes [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Dorset’s digital landscaping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week I posted an article on the Meetdraw website comparing the digital industry of 2002 with the current situation that has helped fuel the success of our little series of networking events. The aim was to engage with local agency folk and to encourage discussion, as well as help build awareness of Meetdraw of [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>The World’s worst best website – redesigning MoneySavingExpert</title>
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		<comments>http://shortboredsurfer.com/2010/01/the-worlds-worst-best-website-redesigning-moneysavingexpert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in October Damian Proctor (Redweb’s Head of Design) and I were asked by Web Designer Magazine to pick a website that we felt represented &#8216;bad&#8217; design, explain why and offer up a solution of how we&#8217;d improve it. We didn&#8217;t want to choose something obvious or easy. We wanted to challenge ourselves by picking [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Master User Experience design an interview with .net magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Back in November I was approached by Craig Grannell who asked if I&#8217;d like to contribute towards the cover article for .net magazine&#8217;s December issue. I jumped at the chance and was really pleased to have been given the chance to comment along-side the likes of Leisa Reichelt, Dan Saffer, Andy Budd and Luke Wroblewski. [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Roundup: What have I been up to lately?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The last couple months has been a hectic time and with the end of the year just round the corner I thought I&#8217;d better blog about  some of it. I&#8217;ve had several blog posts on the go and not managed to finish a single one of them. I even wrote a post back in September where [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>A quick and painless review of Meetdraw3: The Meetcounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[IF you don&#8217;t already know (and if you don&#8217;t where have you been) Meetdraw is a series of informal meetups organised for and shaped by people working in digital.  Its for anyone work in or interested by digital; whether designer, developer, blogger, UX practitioner, account pimp, social media guru,  search specialist, twittaholic or student. Nice to [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Mountain biking, misdirection and peanut butter sandwiches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently I took part in a 30 mile mountain bike ride. It was quite a challenge and on reflection made me think about not only my cycling ability but also user experience design, naturally! This post explains how I&#8217;ve made the tenuous leap from mountain biking to UX and then to my thoughts on Jared Spool&#8217;s lunch. My [...]<div class="feedflare">
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