Portfolio of links

All work by or can be said as significantly contributed to in the area of expertise by Michael Rawling

For more information email:
yes@iwantusability.info
Alternatively call :
(UK)+44 (0) 777-573-1896

Examples of online work:

» Recent E-commerce & Other Web Activity

  • John Wiley & Sons

  • Onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ - User Centred Design Manager, managing a team of 13 User Experience/Information Architects and User Interface/UX Developers.
  • IVIS Group Ltd.

  • Jessops.com - User experience, design and development consulting.
  • Tesco Direct - Complete high traffic e-commerce platform in 6 months. Consultant and developer of: Accessibility, interaction, usability, semantic html & web standards compliancy.
  • Tesco Grocery Superstore - Complete re-write (UI development lead & team leader. Consultant in Accessibility, Usability & Interactions and developer)
  • Tesco Flowers (Consultant and developer for: Accessibility, interaction, usability, semantic html & web standards compliancy)
  • Carmania.co.uk

    (solo end-to-end project to: pitch, consult, design and develop sites over a period months)

    Brief: To create a site the can be 'played', to communicate CarMania's mania for cars and complete knowledge of, with a dark background/style and a 'gamey', techy feel. Target demo graphic: male, approx. 20-55 yrs.
  • broadband flash site www.carmania.co.uk/high (see the ‘car dossiers’ for dynamic flash product data, images and sound fx examples)
  • dial up site: www.carmania.co.uk/low
  • content management system

Other Information & links:

» Training, Education & Professional Affiliations

BSc PSYCHOLOGY
A Batchelor of Science degree in Psychology specialising in Cognitive Psychology. 2008 onwards.
UPA
USABILITY PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION membership. 2007 onwards
GAWDS
GUILD OF ACCESSIBLE WEB DESIGNERS membership, 2006 onwards
W3C Member
Ongoing contribution to XHTML 1&2, WCAG, ARIA & HTML Working Groups, 2006 onwards
MAYA 3D
Central St. Martins College of Art, 2005
ACCESSIBILITY WORKSHOP
W3C WCAG 1.0 ACCESSIBILITY WORKSHOP by independent experts provided at MSN HQ), 2004
XML Development
The Tech College, Kingston. 2002
WEB DESIGN
City & Guilds Certification, 2002
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Tutor: D.Wilson MA RCA, Central St. Martins College 2002
XML/XSL/rXML
Official Roxen XML/XSLT platform training program, 2001
ADVANCED FLASH
Official Macromedia training program, 2000
ACTIVE SERVER PAGES
Cyberia, 2000
JAVASCRIPT
Cyberia, 2000
DHTML & ADVANCED DREAMWEAVER
Metro New Media, 1999
PHOTOSHOP 4/QUARKXPRESS
1998