rhys howell

random designs from my mind.

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I wasn’t happy with our email design when I started at Canyon. For example - we were using black background with white text. This was distasterous because many email clients only allow for white backgrounds which was resulting in white text on white background! 

This was my first attempt at redesigning the emails to be inline with our design aesthetic. For those of you who are knowledgeable about the limitations of Email design there are some things here that would have been difficult to achieve. However, this was a good starting place that we have been able to build from and A/B test some design elements. 

Whilst not perfect - I am proud that it helped move both the design and user experience forward. 

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A very simple image I made for the beta launch of makebritainthinkagain.com following the Brexit vote. It’s obviously a play on Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” but it has two different interpretations: 

1. Encouraging people to be more analytical and improve learning in Britain (Make Britain Think) and (Again) suggesting there was a time when Britain was more intelligent (I appreciate this might not be strictly true)

2. Make Britain - Think Again as in to reconsider and perhaps realise our mistake.

Whilst for this project I was more interested in getting something ok out quick rather than missing the moment it became clear that ‘IN’ appears 3 times in the text and could be highlighted in some way.

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This was a quick layout I made for us to promote our Strava Club and also share information about our leaderboards.

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99% of the time I ride road bikes but seeing as my colleagues struggle to pronounce my name (Rhys = Reese, not Rice) I decided to edit the ‘Rise of Enduro’ poster to make fun of both facts.

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New Yahoo Logo

So I had 5 minutes free and decided to redesign the new Yahoo logo. To achieve the effect I had to use 'bevel & emboss' which is something that should NEVER BE USED ON TEXT. Yahoo has never looked more corporate and done less to represent what said onomatopoeia should invoke.

In all honesty, I don't care but I thought this would be fun. Yahoo needs to do more than make a shit new logo and weather app.

Personally this one is my favourite (if you ignore the stupid gradient): http://someofthereal.tumblr.com/post/60350103127

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NO GHOSTS - TGTHR 'SAD ICON'

Sometimes things aren't going to work and you're going to end up not being matched with people yadda yadda so I wanted to create a fun icon for one of the 'sad screens'. This is the one for when no-one has visited your profile yet.

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Privilege Website Redesign

I decided to take a truly awful website (http://privilege.com/) and redesign it taking into account fluid & responsive design to offer a simple and intuitive user experience. 

Not only this but there is also the inclusion of live stats relaying real-time information about the business back to the consumer. 

This was a good test to see if I could make something dull seem simple, clean & purposeful and although not perfect; I think this design is a step closer in the right direction

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TGTHR - Messages UI Mockup

Just thought i'd share a design I made for the TGTHR message panel. Fairly simplistic but clean.

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One of designs i've done for the TGTHR app has just been featured on Techcrunch

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TGTHR Sign-up concept (FLAT remix)

For fun I decided to see what the sign-up screen would look like super-flat.  I'm not known for doing ANYTHING flat so thought i'd check it out.

I couldn't resist adding in a gradient to the background though!

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Sign-Up Prototype for TGTHR

We've tried to design a sign-up which is quick, clean and offers constant visual feedback to the user so mistakes are highlighted AND the reason for the mistake or error.

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Happy Valentines! We just launched our new website

What better way to celebrate Valentines Day than with a brand spanking new website to replace that yucky holding page! We hope you like it & if you haven’t signed up to be one of the first to try the app before it launches publicly the go do it now! :)

Have a great day & get TGTHR

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I had 30 minutes to spare so i thought I would make a super simple sign-up page for a company that doesn't exist. Just for practise.

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I designed this for the front door of my London apartment. Even though I have long left I am glad to say the design still remains on the door :)

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