Hi, I'm a web consultant who delivers successful projects with great user experiences.
As the current Head of User Interface at Yell.com, I'm busy product owning some projects while pushing forward the UI strategy with an excellent team.
This site gives a brief overview of the projects I've product managed over the last couple of years.
Further down, you'll find some classics from my past that I've designed and built.
Thanks for visiting,
Chris
2011
Yell.com mobile project
This project was to create both smartphone and mobile versions of www.yell.com, and replace the legacy systems.
Increasing usage was our main priority, through better user experience and SEO.
We saw a 30% increase in traffic directly from our delivery.
Improving performance, maintainability and reducing complexity all contributed to great results.
View it on your mobile by visiting www.yell.com
My responsibilities:
Product manager in agile development scrum team - requirements, usage-analysis, strategy, stakeholder management.
Project features:
HTML5, CSS3, Mobile Development, Zepto, SEO, Accessibility, Microdata, Freemarker, User-Agent detection.
Yell.com Edit Biz project
Create a new self-service mechanism to collect content from prospect businesses.
30,000 new business pages created in the first few months
500 Sales staff, 400 customer services & 250,000 users migrated
Photo management system created, uploading 18,000 in first 2 weeks
If you have a local business, update it on Yell.com by finding it and clicking on add/edit photos.
My responsibilities:
Product manager - requirements, usage-analysis, strategy, stakeholder management
Project features:
HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Spring MVC, User-testing, A/B testing
2010
Yell.com homepage & SEO
Creation of 'local' homepages to encourage usage and content creation
Create thousands of SEO optimised pages linking through to search results and businesses.
Encouraged business content collection through latest business updates
My responsibilities:
Product manager - requirements, link architecture, usage-analysis, strategy, stakeholder management
Project features:
HTML, CSS, JSP, SE0, JQuery
2009
User tools - Yell.com
Create 'shortlist' facility to allow users to save listings for later.
Create 'recent searches' facility to allow users to save listings for later.
Combined usage of over 250,000 times a month.
Introduced yell.com to html5 technology
My responsibilities:
Product manager & UI dev - prototypes, architect, requirements, usage-analysis
Project features:
HTML5, CSS, Local Storage, JQuery
2008
Mobile promotional site
This site was created to promote the yell.com mobile offering.
Flash based site demonstrating functionality
My responsibilities:
Design manager - flash development, team management, requirements, stakeholder management.
Project features:
Flash
2007
Simon Barnes Photography
Photography site for professional photographer.
Bespoke photo & gallery management
Visit the site at www.simonbarnesphotography.com
My responsibilities:
Freelance Web Designer - all design and development.
Project features:
Flash, PHP
Mobile promotional site - Yell.com
Promotional site for Yell.com mobile
Visit the site (clone)
My responsibilities:
Web Designer - all design and development.
Project features:
Flash, HTML, Perl, CMS
2006
Sarah Mackenzie Photography
Promotional site for professional photographer
Visit Sarah's site at www.sarahmackenzie.com
My responsibilities:
Freelance Web Designer - all design and development.
Project features:
Flash, PHP
2005
CD cover designs
Various CD covers for promotional adverts
My responsibilities:
Freelance Designer - all design.
Project features:
Illustrator, Photoshop
2001
Toyota Marketing Portal
Design and build websites for Toyota's UK dealerships.
Create site where custom advertising can be created and purchased
Full admin and publishing process
View the dealer's sites and the portal (clone sites, and don't view the source!)
My responsibilities:
Lead designer - design, html, css, customer presentations.
Project features:
IE 5, Netscape 4, CMS, Perl, tableful HTML, some CSS, but mostly inline styles
That's all for now folks.
If you would like to email me with any enquiries, then please feel free.
