Brad Haynes / Blog

I’ve recently finished some work something called Ocado Lite, which is designed to cater for as many different browser platforms, devices and users as possible. Primarily, it’s reason for being is to allow customers with mobile phone web access to be able to create, modify, cancel or check orders.

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Creates great images and is better for managing sets of Raw digital images than Photoshop™, but totally lacks a useable user interface. I don’t think I’ve found a more unintuitive piece of software on OS X before, and yes that even include the rather dire Microsoft Office suite of applications.

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I was asked today what my design philosophy was. I must have one, I’m pretty opinionated and definite when it comes to design. But nailing down what exactly it is has proven to be a quite a challenge. I’d never considered myself outspoken enough to formulate and write down any philosophy I might have. So far I am pretty confident in falling into the category of Modernist with all the ethics that back it up, and a minimalist in terms of aesthetics, although perhaps not in terms of functionality. I believe that good design should be entirely fit for purpose, and should selflessly consider the user over aesthetics.