Comic Sans Criminal is a personal project spawned from my annoyance at society's inability to use the font Comic Sans appropriately. The website was designed to be educational and convince a select few to reconsider their use of the font.

However, within 48 hours of the site launching over a quarter of a million people had visited. Comic Sans became a 36 hour Twitter trending topic, and it was 'liked' on Facebook over 25 thousand times. Amongst numerous articles and blog posts it was most notably featured on The Huffington Post, Daring Fireball, and was Yahoo's website of the day.

Vet Text is a unique web application helping ensure pet owners never forget to give their pets their medication. Remembering to give medication sounds trivial but with some antibiotic courses requiring 10 doses a day at regular intervals, it quickly becomes a nightmare to remember.

I took VetText's product concept and developed it and made it realistic, I wireframed and designed all the interfaces, wrote most of the copy and oversaw the development of the application and marketing site.

Techi is a technology blog collating the most exciting news from a diverse range of industries and presenting them in a fun, 'never boring' format. Techi wanted a design that was simple and took a back seat, the concept was to highlight the content, not the site design, hence the large images and neutral colour scheme.

This relatively new community has enjoyed a rapid rise to fame with stories regularly appearing on the front page of Digg, a true measure of success within the tech world.

“Matt is an amazing designer. He brings creative ideas to the table and is not afraid to experiment with new concepts. He's a true professional that goes beyond the scope of the project and creates pixel perfect designs.”

Walter Apai, Techi.com, Webdesignerdepot.com

H2 Desk is a fantastic piece of customer support software aimed at businesses trying to effectively support their customers online. I was responsible for designing the marketing website for H2 Desk, and that design was applied to OnClick Solutions' entire suite of products.

“Matt is a pro. We've worked together on several projects and I'm always more than satisfied. Other than excellent design work, Matt thoroughly studies your target audience, competitors and industry as a whole and offers useful suggestions to improve your product and business, so in some ways you end up with a project manager as well. On top of that he has great communication skills and patience, but best of all, he's a genuinely nice person.”

Neran Ashkenazi, H2Desk.com, OnClickLtd.com

Sensational Jobs is a relatively new but already highly successful Design and Tech job board website. Sensational Jobs asked me to redesign their existing offering to better appeal to their design conscious target audience. The vast increase in job postings and candidate interest made this redesign a great success.

BrushLand was a Photoshop brush sharing site that sadly never saw the light of day. I was however particularly proud of the design and ended up using several of the core elements as a basis for this current portfolio design.

King Group are a London based billboard management agency with an impressive client base full of global brands including McDonalds, Apple and Peroni. King needed a website to fully showcase their offering but unfortunately their redesign is not yet live.

dbTwang is an innovative social network for guitar enthusiasts, enabling them to exhibit their collection, buy and sell guitars from fellow owners, as well as learn from and socialise with like minded people. The application was conceptualized with help from contrast.ie, whose rough wireframes I developed and adapted, creating a design concept and feel which flows throughout the whole service.

“Matt was responsible for the design of the first iteration of dbTwang. His end design across a range of pages and functionality was superbly executed. If you have a project which is challenging in terms of its look and feel and need a designer to help you deliver a complex requirement cleanly and simply then definitely consider Matt.”

Keith Bohanna, dbTwang.com

Knowledge So Bright attempted to create an online community sharing expert knowledge on a vast variety of topics. Unfortunately with the advent of Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers and a lack of investment, KSBright didn't have a very long life, but it's design is one I'm proud of regardless.

AutoCatch is one of Canada's most popular used vehicle selling websites, attracting several hundred thousand users a month. Due to the complexity of the service and all their features, I was required to design an overall identity and produce over 40 individual interfaces for implementation across their service.

“I've worked with many designers in the past and without any doubt Matt has definately been one of the best and easiest to work with. He easily grasped what was necessary from concept to design and has always put 110% into everything we've worked on. Matt's design style is awesome, he is reliable, and I'll certainly be working with him again in the future.”

Dmitry Vodiansky, AutoCatch.com

I was honoured to have the previous version of my portfolio site featured in countless blog articles and design galleries for what at the time was quite a unique style. Those galleries and blog posts still send hundreds of unique visits a day, even though the design is over 2 years old. Since it's launch in January 2008 it had over 200,000 visitors, but 2 years later it definitely needed an update.

Social Gamer was an online gaming magazine with reviews, articles, tips and cheats for a huge variety of consoles and gaming genres.

UKHost4U has been at the forefront of web hosting innovation for over a decade and continues to be one of the UK's most popular web hosting providers. UKHost4U required a redesign of their entire online presence. Sadly their implementation of my designs left a little to be desired.