Chris McLay.

Perfectionist,  freelance interaction designer,  user experience consultant,  really useful bloke to have around…

Recent posts

In Melbourne? Got an iPhone? Please help…

I’ve spent a lot of my time recently reading, playing and generally getting more up–to-date. Part of this has been learning how to build my own iPhone app. As part of designing the app, I have built a prototype web app that I would love your feedback on.

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The first Melbourne UX Movie Night

The first monthly movie night will happen on Monday 7 June at Horse Bazaar in the CBD, with Jon Kolko’s keynote from Interaction 10, My Heart is in The Work, presented in Savannah earlier this year. The evening kicks off from around 5:30 with the keynote screening at 6:30 PM.

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Bant: Great interaction for data entry

People managing diabetes take their readings several times a day, and recording these readings is a difficult habit to maintain. What I love about Bant is that it makes the task of recording three points of data for every reading into a single efficient interaction.

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About me

My name is Chris.

I am a Designer.

I first started playing around with design in high school where I found my first Mac. At first it was just a flyer, a pretty graphic. But then it grew. Business cards followed. Then newsletters and booklets. Soon it was logos, brands and whole identities. When full-colour became affordable things got really messy — and very bright.

What really hooked me, what really got under my skin, was when I started designing software. So addictive. So unlike anything else I’d tried. So hard to get right. People not only had to see and read the designs, they had to use them. They had to find them useful. I wanted people to find them useful. I wanted them to love it!

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Latest tweets

Pixies - Gigantic :-)
10 hours ago

Just discovered you can shift-click tabs in OmniGraffle's Inspector :-)
11 hours ago

Makes my day when I don't squeeze on to the packed train, and then the empty train shows up 1 minute later.
12 hours ago

Melbourne was made for this weather. http://twitpic.com/2khu1m
23 hours ago

Noice! Normal and HDR photos http://twitpic.com/2khtr9 http://twitpic.com/2khtr8
23 hours ago

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