Recce.at is a critically acclaimed and massively popular 3D maps app, co-founded by ex-Google Engineering Director Rian Liebenberg and Ian Hetherington, the man behind the original Playstation. Weaver developed Recce’s UX and brand strategy, conducted user research and worked on the UI.

Recce launched in London in July 2012 and is to expand globally, one city at a time. The focus is on live data, including events, traffic, social media, reviews and even weather.

Key landmarks are lovingly hand-drawn — and you can fly to them at the tap of a menu option!

The whole thing has a fun, Sims-y feel, but powerful search and discovery options are present and correct.

Language City makes learning English into a Cityville-style game experience. Weaver conducted user interviews, contributed to the UI design and advised on UX strategy.

The game entails exploring London as a 3D virtual world, visiting famous landmarks, and even hanging out in a pub. Education as entertainment!

Weaver researched and designed Noddle, an innovative consumer-facing credit report service that has grown to over 100,000 registered users in its first half year. Noddle has also been praised by users for both its power and ease of use — just take a look at the many glowing Recommendations on the Noddle Facebook page.

The interactive credit report itself sits at the heart of the service. Its surface simplicity belies a surprising depth of information and options.

Noddle also includes a vouchers and offers service that incorporates sophisticated and intuitive personalisation features.

Weaver created a fresh new logo for Europe’s largest annual mobile hackathon event, Over The Air. Part mobile phone signal, part rainbow (“over the rainbow”), part angel (the non-profit aspect of OTA) , the symbol we came up with is nevertheless simple and strong enough to communicate the brand essence of OTA clearly across a variety of media.

Columba Systems‘ financial events calendaring business had run way ahead of its website and brand identity when they called Weaver in. We created a clean yet atmospheric new look for Columba that their corporate clients can relate too and trust while still feeling Columba’s disruptively innovative edge.

The larger part of Weaver’s work with Columba was a root and branch redesign of their flagship product, Catalyst Calendar. With thousands of daily financial events happening across the world and a massively complex set of data filtering requirements, it was a great UI design challenge!

Weaver consulted to Vodafone Group R&D, leading the UX strategy, research and design for their R&D project, Betavine Social Exchange. BSX was a wide-ranging and massively ambitious community site for mobile app developers that, for strategic reasons, since became the somewhat more conventional developer.vodafone.net.

Weaver carried out the packaging design for a beauty supplement from Japanese cosmetics company N.A.Gene. The supplement’s ingredients include Proteoglycan — a substance deriving from salmon! Instead of trying to explain the detailed science behind the supplement on the space-limited packaging, we came up with a visual, infographic-style approach that communicated the products key attributes and benefits.

The striking, Art Deco inspired look both delighted the client and helped to drive sales well beyond their expectations.

A packaging design project for a soap made from, amongst other things, seaweed. The “gooey foam” safety sticker strongly differentiates the product from its competitors on the shelves of major department stores.

A packaging design project with Ritsumeikan University, Japan. The idea was to dispense disaster survival kits in tins from vending machines! The product was completed just a month before the major Japanese earthquake of 2011, and 10,000 kits with a modified design were distributed to the affected area in 3 months.

Weaver also designed this eye-catching stand for iBOUSAI’s presence at a major exhibition in Kyoto in 2011.

The four tins are respectively themed on beauty, care, night time and getting home. Of these themes, however, beauty was key: research has shown the great psychological importance for female victims of disaster to be able to maintain their appearance, and it was the project’s differentiated focus on cosmetics that enabled it to attract both government sponsorship and donations on a massive scale from the beauty industry.

The iBOUSAI product design needed to attract donations from cosmetic, fashion, medical industries, and of course get media attention. For this reason, the design is cool and fashionable, rather than reflecting the serious nature of the product’s usage.

Illustration for a Mother’s Day promotion by one of the biggest department stores in Japan.