Ben MacGowan Ben MacGowan is the Lead UI Engineer for a digital agency based in Reading UK. With a keen eye for detail and passion for innovative designs and cutting edge technologies. Ben also carries this passion for the industry and sharing knowledge across to being one of the core organisers of a free bi-monthly event for web designers and developers, Breaking Borders.
We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it's tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How can we enhance the user experience and usability of our jQuery events?
Below, we'll briefly... Read More
Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch and then only updated with minor tweaks to suit the content.
It has... Read More
