PlayBrighter

http://playbrighter.com/

PlayBrighter is an educational gaming website aimed at primary and secondary schools. It allows teachers to set their students assignments in the form of Flash games, earning the players in-game credit that can be spent on upgrading their avatar.

The website's ambitious design was created by Polygon Creative.

  • PlayBrighter question set editor improvements

    Feb 2012

    The question set editor now supports cloning and customising a built-in question set, as well as saving your progress while continuing editing. You can also preview the built-in question sets and launch a new mission directly from the question set editor.

  • Playbrighter updated with extra teacher tools

    Jan 2012

    It's now possible to get temporary login passwords for your students from their detail page, and to print out password reminders for an entire class.

    We've also added a CSV batch upload feature for students, and improved the question set search.

  • Playbrighter updated with new game content

    Dec 2011

    In response to user feedback, we've just rolled out a load of updates to the Flash games to improve their usability and difficulty balance.

    We're always keen to hear about people's experiences with the site, and are looking forward to pushing out further improvements over the coming months.

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Schroders Defender

The early 2012 digital marketing campaign by Schroders focuses on a recognisable set of statue images to emphasise the message of defending incomes in times of economic uncertaintly. The digital campaign is being managed by Muirhoward, and consists of two desktop landing pages, two mobile websites, and an email campaign. All online assets are built and maintained by myself.

Cambridge Enterprise

http://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/

Cambridge Enterprise licenses technology developed by members of the University of Cambridge to commercial organisations. It also facilitates paid consultations between academics and related industries.

The website was developed to provide searchable directories of their available licensing opportunities, reagents and consultants. The whole site is indexed by an intelligent search engine, allowing instant results to be made available to the user.

The website was designed by Onespacemedia.

CRFS intranet

The CRFS intranet was developed to allow company employees to log their time spent on projects with an absolute minimum distruption to their working day. It then provides a number of complex statistical analysis tools for project managers to analyse the earned value and CPI index of their ongoing projects, as well as tracking R&D tax credits.

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Camfed

http://www.camfed.org/

Camfed is an international charity that provides girls' education in Africa. By educating young women to become community leaders, Camfed breaks the cycle of poverty to improve the quality of life for tens of thousands of girls each year.

The website was designed by Onespacemedia.

  • Camfed seasonal appeal 2012 launched

    Dec 2011

    The Christmas appeal for Camfed has now been launched. A corresponding print campaign is also heading out at the same time. If you're looking to make a charitable donation over the holiday season, Camfed is an excellent choice, and makes excellent use of the money.

Network'43

http://network43.com/

Network'43 was an initiative set up by Muirhoward to showcase everyday life during World War 2. The website was used as a publishing platform for a scripted set of tweets sent out by four fictional characters, describing their own experiences in the weeks leading up to rememberance day.

The website used the Twitter API to publish scripted tweets as and when they were scheduled to happen. It also provides a browsable timeline for each character, along with a large media gallery powered by html5media.

  • Network'43 updated for the long-haul

    Dec 2011

    Now that the period of scripted tweets has ended, the Network'43 website has been updated to become a long-term resource for schools and other educational institutions to reasearch everyday life during World War 2.

    The media gallery has also been updated to provide easier access to the excellent videos and pictures that were sent out over the course of the three-week experience.

Golf Day Live

http://www.golfdaylive.com/

Golf Day Live is a mobile web application, developed by myself and Muirhoward. It allows golfers to collaborate and share live game updates with each other as they play, and works on all major phone platforms.

The application features online/offline mode, as well as continual background updating of game results. It was designed to be as quick to set up as possible, allowing golfers to start using it on the day without any prior installation on their device.

  • Golf Day Live used in EGCOA tournament

    Nov 2011

    Golf Day Live is being used as the official scoring application for the Europian Golf Club Owners Association tournament and conference. In a few days it'll be keeping track of 80 simultanious players, broadcasting all of their live score updates to a widescreen TV set up in the clubhouse.

    This represents the biggest and most openly-available demonstration of the application to date.

  • Golf Day Live begins limited testing

    Jun 2011

    A prototype of Golf Day Live has been made available to a small group of testers in the field. Their experiences with the application will be used to shape the direction of future developments.

Venture Trust

http://www.venturetrust.org/

Venture Trust is a Scottish charity that helps young people overcome social problems by spending time in the wilderness. The website acts as a showcase of their initiatives and success stories.

The website was designed by Onespacemedia.

University of Cambridge mailing platform

The University of Cambridge mailing platform was built to manage the high volume of email traffic generated by the university communications department. It's built around the open-source django-subscribers project, and handles thousands of emails each day without breaking a sweat.

  • UOC Mail launched

    Nov 2011

    The new University of Cambridge mailing platform is now online. It will be gradually scaling up it's traffic over the coming months as more and more university newsletters are migrated over to the new system.

Brand Recruitment

http://www.brandrecruitment.co.uk/

Brand Recruitment are a PR and Marketing recruitment agency based in the South East. Their new website was designed to make searching their extensive job database extremely easy, as well as dramatically improving the signup process for new users.

The site was designed by Muirhoward.