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Interpreting character for digital

Organisations often spend a lot of time and money on their brand identity so it’s important that website designers effectively interpret that brand for digital. But, very often they don’t. Read More

Don’t use text in images

It's often the simplest option, but don't use pictures of words on your website. Read More

Does Agile methodology lead to poor interface design?

There has been a lot of finger pointing at frameworks such as Bootstrap for an apparent depreciation in design standards lately. But, I think that Agile methodologies have something to answer for as well. Read More

Are carousels that bad really?

I want to challenge current web industry thinking concerning carousels/sliders/galleries (which is - in a nutshell - they’re bad) with what, seemingly, most of the world thinks of them. Read More

Lovely data

We’ve been working with lots of data recently in several projects and it’s been a lot of fun. Trying to figure out how best to present the data has made us think about user interfaces and user engagement in ways that we hadn’t really had to do much before. Read More

Creating useful pattern libraries

Pattern libraries are great, but designing them (well) is difficult. Read More

Does your site have charisma?

Over the last couple of years I’ve heard many people bemoan the fact that a lot of websites "are all starting to look the same". There’s a certain amount of truth in this. Read More