Nick Day

Current

• Interface Developer at Reading Room
• Freelance Web Designer/Developer at English in Chester
• Freelance Web Designer/Developer at Nick Day

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Past

• User Experience Designer at Flame Digital

Education

• Lancaster University
• Lancaster University

Connections

44 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Nick Day’s Summary

Nick Day is a award-winning freelance web designer/developer based in the North West. He has experience with a range of client- and server-side technologies, and is especially interested in the areas of HCI, usability, accessibility and interaction design. Nick recently won the Accessibility in Focus award (www.accessibilityinfocus.co.uk) and published and presented a paper at the 2007 British HCI conference.

Nick is currently employed as an Interface Developer at Reading Room and completes small to medium-sized freelance projects in his spare time.

Nick Day’s Specialties:

XHTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Python, Django, Apache, Classic ASP, XML, Usability, Accessibility, User Experience, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), SEO

Nick Day’s Experience

• Interface Developer

  Reading Room

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Freelance Web Designer/Developer

  English in Chester

  (Internet industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)

  Ongoing maintenance and development of the award-winning www.english-in-chester.co.uk site, as well as work on internal web-based projects.

• Freelance Web Designer/Developer

  Nick Day

  (Internet industry)

  August 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)

• User Experience Designer

  Flame Digital

  (Internet industry)

  May 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Nick Day’s Education

• Lancaster University

  MRes , Human-Computer Interaction , 2006 — 2007

  Graduated with distinction. My dissertation research looked into how user satisfaction can be achieved in web-based content management systems, taking into account their mandatory daily use in a corporate environment. It's online at www.tinyurl.com/njdaycms.

• Lancaster University

  BSc , Computer Science , 2003 — 2006

  Graduated with first class honours. Studied the fundamentals of computing including software engineering, OO and OS-level programming, multimedia and HCI. My major project was the development of a campus-based Java and Bluetooth-enabled public display voting system, which users interact with via their mobile phone. More details at www.univote.co.uk.

Additional Information

Nick Day’s Websites:

• My Website

Nick Day’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Boxes and Arrows
•    Python Community
•    UsabilityMatters.Org
•    British Human Computer Interaction Group
•    UX Professionals
•    AgileNorth
•    GeekUp
•    Web Accessibility
•    Django
•    LinkedNW
•    Web Standards
•    User Experience
•    Web Freelancers
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    jQuery
•    PHPNW
•    Section 508 Accessibility Professionals
•    Manchester Digital
•    Manchester Creative Industry

Nick Day’s Honors:

Accessibility in Focus Commercial Award Winner 2007 - www.tinyurl.com/4v6bf5
England's Northwest Tourism Website of the Year 2006 - www.tinyurl.com/6owh6j

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