York's new immersive VR entertainment destination, obilViaR, needed a website to match the excitement of its virtual reality experiences. Tasked with bringing the vibrant vision of web designer Lucy Rigley to life, I developed a bespoke Laravel website with a focus on creating an overall feeling of depth and fluidity, mirroring the engaging nature of the virtual reality experiences offered. This vision translated into the incorporation of smooth, airy animations, designed to captivate visitors and hint at the fluid nature of virtual reality itself.

As always, it is easier to create a database to ensure a simple dynamic management of games and experiences. Despite a rapid project turnaround, the site seamlessly integrates a third-party booking system, providing a smooth and efficient user journey from browsing to booking a VR adventure. The obilViaR website serves as the digital gateway to York's only dedicated VR experience, inviting both first-timers and seasoned VR enthusiasts to discover the immersive fun that awaits.

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Developed for the Royal Institute of Great Britain. from some of my game concepts. The InsideOut website is designed for 11-14 year olds to help inspire them to science. I created 3 games for the site, Human Cannonball, Energy Quest and Flick the Flea.

The InsideOut site was showcased in DIGIT magazine and BAFTA nominated.

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From my original interface concept UI design, I produced an exciting learning tool for 11-14 year olds to learn about the UK and it's places of interest they can visit. The spinning menu and zooming map are an exciting way into the roughly 2000 pieces of database driven content. This flagship application of gridClub.com helped the site walk away with a BAFTA, a BETT and an Emma Foundation award.

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The client came to me to concept, design and build several interactive 'attractor' apps for their latest line of very large multi-touch TVs. These TVs are located in hotel lobbies, trade shows, clubs etc. They play one of the attractor apps in demo mode until a passer-by's interest is piqued and they investigate and play with attractor.

Each interactive had to interesting enough in demo mode but also highly 'touchable' and playful when a user (or multiple users) came to play. The high-end TVs have an nice Android system on-board to run these interactives.

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I was tasked with bringing a very well established maths tutoring site up to date and into the mobile age. After an initial period of R&D, I designed and built a flexible and scalable UI with a full example tutorial ready for user testing and demoing to investors.

The tutorials are step by step and reactive; they will explain the same point in another way, with supporting animation, if the user didn't quite understand the first time. Technically it had to work on desktop, tablets and mobiles with an emphasis on the varied mobiles in use in schools around the globe. This spawned lots of problems in the design; trying to avoid just going for the lowest common denominator and keeping the highly engaging flow and animation to aid the understanding and retention of the lesson. The UI can work in both portrait and landscape and has a 'split' bar so the user can fine-tune the UI themselves, throughout the lessons, if they prefer the emphasis to be on the tutorial's animation and explanation or the accompanying (multi-lingual) text explanation. Flexible guided learning is key here.

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I like being a freelance designer and developer as I get to work with lots of nice people, once again with the smart people at Tangent90 I built a local installation that played out over a few plasma screens in the entrance of Selfridges London. The installation took pictures of everyone coming through the door, which then where cropped to a head and shoulders image, which then found themselves 'dropping' into my mosaic of other customer's faces. The mosaic tiles are then colour tinted and make up a larger image of Mr I.am.

Depending which version is running at the time, we either play a promo video every few minutes or (my personal favourite) explode the mosaic's tiles and spin them around in 3D before putting them back in their correct places. For no reason beyond eye candy but, for once, that is what you need to attract the passers-by attention.

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Working with the agency Tangent90, I produced an application that ran on 3 large touch sensitive plasma screens to be shown at trade shows. The project was based around an infinite 'big wheel' carousel of content tiles that then clicked through to a video and some more copy. Users could save details of which content they had viewed for later review.

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Gucci's high standards were evident throughout with the attention to detail in this project. My dev skills were needed by agency Critical Mass to create highlights like the interactive 3D fly through of the 'flora' motif's history. I was also tasked with everything from html to After Effects work when needed.

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Two facets to the same project here. First is a set of banners for Fujitsu's 'cloud' computing solution. The second I had to dust off the old Photoshop skills and produce a mock up of a live projection animation.

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Sometimes it is nice just to do some old skool animation. For the Cabana website I dusted off my After Effect skills and made a 3D animated menu in the style of window shutters. I put this into a little wrapper and made a menu for the homepage of the site. Dotted around the site are little animated drawings. I just couldn't help myself with these anims though and ended up animating a lot of them with code so they were different each time the user came back. I don't like the punters getting bored!

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Airbus only wants the best and most suited graduates for their training programs and jobs. Working with Digital Mosaic's designs, I built this career path chooser which took the applicant on a journey of 5-6 questions and then suggested the best area of the Airbus group to apply to.

An XML based decision maker and some slick 3D tilting and panning makes this project stand out from the usual recruitment tool.

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HSBC wanted a presentation tool to introduce the speakers of a major conference. The tool had to scale and work with 56" plasmas as well as touch screens and had to be updateable on the day by the people presenting it. So I built a presentation that scaled perfectly and was easily updateable via XML at any time, it was just what they needed.

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Fimbling Fun! is a CD-ROM for fans of TV program aged 2-6. I acted as head programmer on this project, making all the technical demos in the early stages and most of the final polished product. This was a lot of fun to work on as the Fimbles are so cute :) I am very proud of being able to name all the Fimbles and their friends without having to think about it.

Designed for young children and released by BBC Worldwide in 2003. It's based on the popular BBC TV series "The Fimbles" and is aligned with the UK's National Curriculum Foundation Stage, making it a suitable learning tool for preschoolers.

The project features several interactive activities, including:

Footprints: Guide a Fimble through a maze collecting objects.
Suitcase: Get packing for your holiday with the Fimbles.
Feather: Tickle the Fimbles to make them laugh - miles too much fun.
Pebble: Draw and create pictures in the sand pit and add animated elements to bring them life.
Shimmy Shaker: Create tunes and get dancing. ...annoy your parents. We didn't use it in the end, but I created a 'dance animation system' that automatically animated between different dance moves in real-time.

Additionally, the CD-ROM includes printable greeting cards, stories, video clips, and music from the show, enhancing the interactive and educational experience for children​

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