Philip Morton

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Articles on a variety of subjects.

The mobile flight search user experience

“Flight search is a difficult design problem. There are millions of scheduled flights every year and even when constrained by route and date, the amount...”
Making Thunderbolt mobile

“Earlier this week, I launched a mobile version of Thunderbolt, which is designed to work on almost all web-capable handsets and mobile devices. There are...”
XenForo forum software review

“Forum software is a necessary evil of running an online community. Few credible options are available to website owners and those that are tend to...”
Don’t let comments distort page length and discourage readers

“When you’re deciding whether or not to read something, you make a calculation: Is the time it will take to read this less than the...”
Thoughts on Facebook

“Facebook is in trouble. Over the last two weeks, concern about the complexity of its privacy controls has led to a minor panic in the...”
Designing for long attention spans

“The notion that people’s attention span is shorter when reading on the Web is well known. The number of possible distractions and other things that...”
What next for the AIGW?

“Last Sunday, we had the first meeting of The Association of Independent Game Websites in London. For something that was founded only a few months...”
CountryEx testing gets underway

“As you may be aware, I’m creating a stock trading game called CountryEx for my final year project at university. It’s been in development...”
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At Foolproof

Shorter thoughts on all things UX related.

Battle for the living room heats up

“The second week in June is going to be a corker. Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference and the videogames industry’s E3 Expo are scheduled for the...”
‘Jobs-to-be-done’ theory and experience design

“Too often, organisations create products without understanding their customers’ underlying motivations or goals. Many focus on their immediate competitors and not on the products and...”
Multi-screen gaming experiences

“At this year’s E3 trade show in Los Angeles, one of the clearest themes was multi-screen gaming. Nintendo’s Wii U was present following its announcement...”
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At AIGW

Articles about running videogame websites.

Starting a career in videogames journalism through volunteering

Why a large, established publication is the perfect place to start your career.
The value of editing

Why editing writers' work is one of the most important things you can do.
Averting disaster with backups

Losing years of collective work can be catastrophic. Here's how to keep your site safely backed up.
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At Thunderbolt

Videogames reviews, previews, features and opinion pieces.

About

Hello and welcome to my website.

I’m a user experience consultant at Foolproof in London, having graduated from a Computer Science degree at the University of Nottingham.

I’m the owner and Editor of the volunteer-run videogames website Thunderbolt, which recently reached its tenth anniversary. I’m also a co-founder of the Association of Independent Game Websites.