mydesigna.co.uk is the web design portfolio for Dr Bex Lewis. From September 2007 to April 2008, Bex will be on her worldwide travels, which can be followed through a travelblog, going via South-East Asia, Australasia and South America.

Bex's preferred living area is Winchester, and plans for mydesigna.co.uk will be reconsidered on return from travels, and may include some form of web consultancy for small businesses. She is aware that most of her sites require an overhaul!

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, Rebecca was awarded her PhD, a modern cultural history PhD on the subject of second world war posters.

Bex's key strength is writing web content, 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 website.

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.