Standards Compliant Web Designer
London, United Kingdom
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- Web Designer / Owner at Frisk Design
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- User Interface Consultant at HSBC
- Web Designer at NixonMcInnes
- Web Designer / Developer (Self-employed)
- Interactive Designer at Tim Neill Associates
- Lead Interactive developer at KnowledgePool
- Web Designer / Administrator at Learning and Skills Development Agency
- Multimedia Developer at Maxim Training
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Matt Hill’s Summary
I am a self-employed web designer working to modern web standards. I focus on building clear, usable and accessible websites.
I've been in the new-media industry since 1992 and bring over 15 years experience to modern web design. I have two philosophies in my work: "Respect the user" and "Get it right first time".
I straddle the divide between designer and developer. I enjoy the creative side of web design: defining the structure, functionality and "look and feel" of a site, and I equally enjoy the building process using semantic HTML for structure, CSS for layout and all other "standards-compliant" web development techniques.
I strongly believe that all online tools and resources should be accessible and usable by as many people as possible. I do not believe in gratuitous use of technology for it's own sake.
Matt Hill’s Specialties:
User Interface Design
Standards compliant web development using XHTML and CSS
Cross browser CSS compatibility
Excellent practical knowledge of web accessibility
Lots of experience building Wordpress sites
Matt Hill’s Experience
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Web Designer / Owner
Frisk Design
(Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
I do three main things and do them well:
• Design and build websites for small to medium sized business
• Offer web-design and build services to agencies requiring out-of-house support
• Consult in web usability and accessibility
I work with agencies who need to supplement their in-house team and are keen to develop long-term relationships with high quality freelance consultants. I also produce full website builds for small businesses requiring a new web presence or the update of an exisiting website.
I am an expert in HTML/CSS site builds and have a very deep understanding of semantic document structuring, accessibility issues and very detailed knowledge of cross-browser website design and development.
Additionally, I do other graphics work such as producing incidental imagery for websites or e-Learning. I also enjoy developing texture art for computer games and photo manipulation and can offer services in these areas. -
User Interface Consultant
HSBC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)
While in this consultancy role I contributed to various projects including:
• Developing a curriculum for a training course in standards-compliant web design
• Working with/managing offshore remote staff in front-end prototyping for a HSBC-wide user administration tool
• Working on the UI for an overhaul of one of the intranet sites
• Designing a consistent high level look-and-feel for a suite of legacy websites -
Web Designer
NixonMcInnes
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 10 months)
This role involved interface graphic design for websites and emails, hand-coded standards-compliant XHTML & CSS, some PHP and javascript, design and production of corporate literature and general advisement on web design good practice. Towards the end of the role I became more interested and involved in applying "good accessibility" principles to web design and advised clients on how to make their sites more accessible.
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Web Designer / Developer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
March 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 5 months)
Working as a freelancer in the Brighton area, this was my transitionary period between interactive CD-ROM design to standards-compliant website design and development. I focussed on interface graphic design and hand-coded table-less XHTML and CSS with a a little back end PHP. Clients included CogApp, Nixon McInnes, Specsavers.
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Interactive Designer
Tim Neill Associates
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — March 2003 (7 months)
Designer / Developer of Authorware CD-ROM eLearning courses. Focussed on graphic design, incidental illustration and interaction programming.
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Lead Interactive developer
KnowledgePool
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1999 — July 2002 (2 years 10 months)
Lead designer/developer of eLearning CD-ROMs for blue-chip clients, in a transitionary phase between Authorware and HTML driven courseware.
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Web Designer / Administrator
Learning and Skills Development Agency
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Web designer for new FEDA website, IT advisor and web administrator of internal/external systems. Also worked with all departments to coordinate dissemination of easily readable articles on web/IT usage. After I left FEDA, it became the LSDA and eventually LSN.
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Multimedia Developer
Maxim Training
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1993 — October 1998 (5 years 8 months)
Several positions held, but essentially a designer/developer of eLearning courseware, starting on 16 colour floppy disc based courseware and moving to full multimedia CD-ROMs as the industy matured. Completely self-taught on the job, my key skills were interface design (Photoshop, Corel Draw) and interactive development (Authorware, Quest).
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Matt Hill’s Interests:
web-design, art, photography, film/cinema, reading, walking, cycling, psychology, philosophy, the state of humanity
Matt Hill’s Groups:
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The Freelance Creative Media Group UK (FCMUK)
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