Jim Ramsden
Designing
Role
- Leads strategy and design for all projects.
- Gathers business requirements and learns about customer needs.
- Plans user-journeys and prototypes interactions.
- Designs Interfaces and writes copy.
- Wears the “admin hat” on a Monday morning.
Experience
- Started out in 2005 as a Photographer and Digital Artist.
- Landed an agency role as Graphic Designer in 2009, working on Branding, Print and Web projects.
- Progressed to Creative Director and led UI Design for brands such as ASOS, NHS, Confused.com.
- Founded Etch in 2012 to focus on Software Design for devices big and small.
Reading
Voice User Interfaces (VUI) — The Ultimate Designer’s Guide
The fundamentals that empower us to converse with our devices
Instagram hides likes count 'to remove pressure'
The number of likes is a measure of how well content is doing on the social media platform.
Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm | Carbon Brief
Climate change is often communicated by looking at the global average temperature. But a global average might not mean much to the average person. How the climate is likely to change specifically where people live is, in most cases, a much more important consideration.
Writing
New Site, New Logo, New Domain, Same Etch.
Like all design firms, it’s important that we have a trendy looking website to impress our clients, and provide us with topics to blog…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on some of the downsides of Design Systems.
You mention negatives such as; mass production, lazy designers, sameness.
Open Device Lab, in a suitcase.
Why go to the Lab, if the Lab can come to you?
Resting
- If he’s not working, or spending time with his family, then Jim is usually riding his bike – speeding down mountains is how he likes to switch-off and relax.
