Who - Thismanslife: Design, Graphics, Photography - Portfolio and personal space of James Mellers, UX designer, Edinburgh

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		Curriculum Vitae
		Name James Mellers Born Nottingham, UK 1978 Current location Edinburgh, UK Tel Email to request Email james@thismanslife.co.uk Web thismanslife.co.uk
Skills	UX	User-centred design processes Interface & interaction design Information architecture Experience architecture Wireframing & process flows User interviews & requirements gathering
	Design	Creative concepts Graphics/Artworking Art direction Branding
	Web	RIA design HTML/CSS coding Animation/choreography Experience in accessible design & coding SEO basics
Employment	April '07 - Present	Adobe Consulting, Edinburgh Title Senior UX Consultant & Interface Designer Role Designing interfaces, defining user experience and helping to pioneer the use of Adobe technology as a platform for developing highly usable, visually stunning and innovative RIA's Site adobe.com/consulting
	Feb '00 - April '07	MEDIAmaker Ltd. Nottingham Title Multimedia Designer & Head of Design Dept. Role Wide ranging graphic and multimedia design. Produced design work from concepts through to final products. Layout, graphics, typography, illustration, photography, branding. Static, animated and interactive. Extensive use of standards compliant XHTML / CSS. Also responsible for managing design workload and overall graphical output from the multimedia design department. Site mediamaker.co.uk
	Sept '99 - Feb '00	Evening Post Group Ltd. Nottingham Title Scanner Operator Role Liaising with editors and designers. Scanning, colour correcting, retouching, cropping and cut-outs of photographs to be included in publications produced by the Evening Post Group.
Work Placement	Mar '99 - Aug '99	Unit 5 Digital Ltd. Nottingham 2 Weeks placement + 1 day per week, March - August '99 Title Mac Assistant Role To assist in many areas of the studio. Montage, retouch, and colour correction of photographs. Creation of virtual room sets. All making extensive use of Adobe Photoshop.
Further Education	Sept '97 - June '99	South Notts College, Nottingham BTEC National Diploma Photography & Imaging 2 years full time Grade Distinction Core Modules Photography (Practical, Theory and History) Digital Imaging Design Studies Communication Studies Other Modules Video: Shooting / Editing Book Binding
College Awards	June '99	Best Student Awarded by South Notts College / Fuji Best Digital Imaging Awarded by South Notts College / Jigsaw Systems
	June '98	Best Environmental (outdoor) Photography Awarded by South Notts College / ProColour
Early Education	Pre '97	A-Level A-levels in Photography, Art & Design, Physics GCSE 9 at Grade A
In the Press	Fast Company	Full article feature about a personal project: Hey Dummy: This Is What “Responsive Design” Means
	The Next Web	Full article feature about a personal project: This designer shows off the future of responsive web design
	Get Addicted To	Full article about a couple of personal projects: Playful Experiment in Parallax Scrolling & the Mystery of Phi
	Young Creative's Network	Interviewed by YCNonline
	Computer Arts	Quoted in article on typography: Everyday inspiration
	Computer Arts Projects	Featured in "Perfect Portfolios" edition of the magazine
	TAXI design network	Awarded website of the day 06 Feb 2006 on TAXI design network
	Itchy City Guides	Restaurant photography for Itchy Nottingham guide books
They said...	@thismanslife I love Phiculator, have had it for years. — Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) September 3, 2011 Also, this responsive illustration is damned cool: thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/r… — Responsive Design (@RWD) January 4, 2012 Responsive Layouts,Responsively Wireframed - bit.ly/AwDgFF — Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag) March 3, 2012 Responsive design: bit.ly/y3w3zd — erik spiekermann (@espiekermann) January 7, 2012 Responsive Design, Responsively Illustrated by @thismanslife thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/r… via: @acalzadilla #rwd — Andy Clarke (@Malarkey) January 4, 2012 Responsive Design, Responsively Illustrated. One of those ideas you wish you had done. thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/r… — Veerle Pieters (@vpieters) January 5, 2012 A nice way to show off responsive layout to clients. bit.ly/x3LEkZ — Paul Boag (@boagworld) February 23, 2012
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Who?

James Mellers, 33, Edinburgh UK, working as a Senior UX Consultant & Interface Designer for Adobe Consulting. Spent the last decade or so pushing pixels into pretty pictures for you to look at and interact with, on screen. More? Read on...

Behold: Thisman

Curriculum Vitae

Name

Born

Current location

Tel

Email

Web

Skills

UX

User-centred design processes

Design

Web

Employment

April '07 - Present

Adobe Consulting, Edinburgh

Title

Role

Site

Feb '00 - April '07

MEDIAmaker Ltd. Nottingham

Title

Role

Site

Sept '99 - Feb '00

Evening Post Group Ltd. Nottingham

Title

Role

Work Placement

Mar '99 - Aug '99

Unit 5 Digital Ltd. Nottingham

Title

Role

Further Education

Sept '97 - June '99

South Notts College, Nottingham

Grade

Core Modules

Other Modules

College Awards

June '99

Best Student

Best Digital Imaging

June '98

Best Environmental (outdoor) Photography

Early Education

Pre '97

A-Level

GCSE

In the Press

Fast Company

The Next Web

Get Addicted To

Young Creative's Network

Computer Arts

Computer Arts Projects

TAXI design network

Itchy City Guides

They said...

End

Social etc

TML V4

Main

Summary

Small Print

James Mellers, 33, Edinburgh UK, working as a Senior UX Consultant & Interface Designer for Adobe Consulting. Spent the last decade or so pushing pixels into pretty pictures for you to look at and interact with, on screen.
More? Read on...