All The Small Things™

Ever since Dan Cederholm and the team released Dribbble, I have been inundated with work requests of all sorts and sizes. For the past year and a bit it has proven to be a successful income and have been privileged to work with some great people and teams from around the globe.

But as of Jan 2012 I will be working my magic as an Interaction Designer for Sourcebits (Sourcebits on TechCrunch.com), a powerhouse team when it comes to application development and design.

Having approached me after seeing my work, they were very generous in their offer which was hard to turn down. I have admired their work for a while now after using NightStand HD on the iPhone for a few months now as my main clock.

I will be joining an old friend of mine Adam Cartlidge. along side a very excite talented team.  Also I would like to thank all on Dribbble who “Liked” or shared my work with others. I would like to say a big thank you to all my previous clients, without your work I wouldn’t have been able showcase my ideas.

Over the past few weeks I have been busy tidying up the new site for my latest product release, MQFramework.  It is a CSS grid framework that allows for responsive and adaptive websites to be designed and developed.  It has received good traction with the likes of SmashingMagazine, SpeckyBoy and CodeVisually to name but a few writing about it.

Thanks to them and all the people who have been tweeting about it, I have managed to attract on average 30,000 visitors a month.  From this I realised the potential to have advertising on it.  Thankfully CarbonAds had contacted me during the first month inviting me to their advertising network which I accepted.

So to all those who tweeted, wrote or shared MQFramework, I thank you.  Also If you would like to advertise on MQFramework then get in contact with the team over at CarbonAds and tell them I sent you.

In the past year I have not had much of a voice in the blogging world, mainly due to lack of focus to sit and write, So for 2012, I am going to be more proactive in writing. My train of thought will cover things from my personal life to interaction design and all things geeky.

Over the next few days I will be updating this new theme, based on MQFramework (a responsive grid system I released in late 2011)  it will be a new start and a new place to learn a bit about what I am up to and experimenting with.

As many of you know I am a mobile and web application designer and developer using technologies such as Javascript, HTML, CSS, Node, Ruby on Rails and PHP. Here I will explore the possibilities and boundaries that lie in these technologies when it comes to interaction design and development.  I will share code and examples of things I find out there in the wild.

So roll on 2012!

Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year.