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Jamil Shehadeh

Jamil has been in the digital industry since 1998, starting out as a freelancer in London before taking up a full time web design and developer position at FWT and then as a senior web designer at Hemscott, before moving to Elixirr Digital in 2008. He oversees the design of all on and offline outputs, managing a team of designers and front-end developers. Jamil still thoroughly enjoys hands-on production work.

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How To Power Up Your Presentations: A PowerPoint 101

PowerPoint. Yum. Don’t tell everyone, but I quite like PowerPoint. There, I said it. There are two main types of PowerPoint files: there are true ‘presentations’ and there are ‘reports’.…

23 May 2023

Digital Marketing
General
Lateral Flow Tests

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How UX Can Make Life Easier: A Covid-Related Case Study

There’s nothing worse than a product with an overcomplicated design that forces you to take a series of complex steps to complete a task. I mean, there obviously are worse…

15 September 2022

User Experience

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Useful Apps, Utilities & Tips for Designers: Part 2

We all love a useful add-on or a keyboard shortcut. They speed up your workflow and make repetitive tasks a little more bearable.

04 October 2021

Digital Marketing
Technology
Web Design & Development
An unhappy review from a user

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UX Foibles and Stuff That’s Missing

We need to avoid fiddly interfaces, misleading labels or obvious missing features.

13 January 2021

User Experience

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12 Photoshop keyboard shortcuts and tips

We all love a keyboard shortcut. They speed up your workflow, make repetitive tasks more bearable and they’re a great way to impress your friends! At Coast, Adobe XD and…

26 March 2019

Web Design & Development
diagonals

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Speed Up Your Website for Free with Properly Compressed Images

Some simple but helpful advice on image compression.

27 October 2017

User Experience
Web Design & Development
ballot box

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Which Political Party’s Website Wins the Design Vote? 2017 Edition

A snap election calls for another snap poll of the UK’s main political party websites, a review we last carried out in March 2010. This time we’ll include social media,…

11 May 2017

Web Design & Development

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Say goodbye to IE6, everyone

As a company, Coast Digital will no longer be supporting IE6 by default. We are of course being pragmatic about how we enforce this new rule: if we update an…

15 February 2012

Web Design & Development

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Frieze Art Fair 2010

On Sunday I went with a couple of friends on our annual day out to the Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park. And just like the previous two years…

20 October 2010

General

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Which political party’s website wins the design vote?

Once again, it’s time to vote for a new leader (or an old one, depending on your political persuasion). Over the next few weeks we’re going to hear lots of…

26 March 2010

Web Design & Development

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