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Grown up WordPress, part 2: brand consistency meets creative freedom

Picture this: Your marketing team creates stunning, on-brand content. Then another department publishes something that looks like it belongs to a completely different organisation. Sound familiar? Read More

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

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

Humans like alphabetically ordered lists

Well, humans that use a latin-based alphabet do. But this can present challenges for the presentation of certain types of content. Read More

Be careful with animation

Due to our work in the legal sector, we tend to keep an eye out for new site launches when they happen. One recent example caught our attention possibly for the wrong reasons. Read More

Can’t get any user input?

We all - rightly - point at user research as the foundation of any good web project. Thorough user research equals focused and usable products, right? But what should we do if we can't get to those users? Read More

Design for user empowerment: helping people with health conditions

You know you have a health condition, but do you need to see a doctor? You are being treated for a medical condition, but should you be getting additional investigations or treatment? 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

Readability apps and why they annoy me

Readability apps like Hemingway have bugged me for a while and I haven’t been able to put my finger on why. So, I thought I’d lay out my ideas here to see if I can get to the bottom of it. Read More

Six factors for digital prototyping success

In a previous article I looked at making the case for prototyping in digital projects. Read More

Eight good reasons for digital prototyping

Prototyping is a great approach for getting started with any new digital development and for making rapid progress. We all know it makes sense. But if you need to make the case for prototyping, have you thought of all the possible reasons? Read More

Are companies sharing your personal email address?

As a follow up to a recent post from Marcus about good and bad user experiences, I thought I’d share a handy tip I use (and you can) to keep track of where your email address ends up after you've given it to a company. Read More