About
Digital Fingerprint has been running under the name “MyDesigna” since 1997, under Dr Bex Lewis. As I’ve become more social media focused, I’m moving my information across here! I’ve been running this on wordpress.com, and just transferred to wordpress.org. It’s not 100% the same, so it’s taking me a while to make it look as I want it to, and to update the information from my other site!
mydesigna.co.uk is the web design portfolio for Dr Bex Lewis. Bex has recently travelled around South-East Asia, Australia & New Zealand, and South America, and finished off the summer of 2008 by working as a tour leader around Europe. Further information can be found in her travelblog. On return, she is slowly working through her websites which require an overhaul, and catching up with the developments in social media!
Rebecca Lewis, BA (Hons), PhD
Bex is a graduate of King Alfred’s College (now the University of Winchester), and until May 2005 was an employee in the IT Department of the College. In July 2004, Bex was awarded her PhD, a modern cultural history PhD on the subject of second world war posters. In January 2009, she returned to the University of Winchester as an Associate Lecturer in History, Media Studies and Design for Digital Media.
Bex’s key strength is writing web content, improving search rankings, information design and structure, and she has plenty of experience of web design, as can be seen in the portfolio section of this web site, and further information can be seen on her career, including CVs, on her personal site.
Bex has read very widely around the subject of usable web design, both on and off-line, and is very aware of the need for a good information architecture, quick download times, and so on, particularly highlighted by Nielsen. Nielsen has certainly raised some valid points, but she does not subscribe to all his tenets, finding useit.com rather dull. Bex likes to design quite visually, although in the quest for fast download time, there are many occasions where images are not appropriate, and other means, such as the strong use of colour, need to be used to aestheticise the site.
