A rather personal message to design students of this year, musing on youth, AI, design careers, tribes, community and what makes us humans happy.
A letter to creative students – the class of 2024
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Design
What is cool, sexy and hot in the world of design for digital and web.
Digital for charities: Website Content Template for Charities
One of the big problems for small charities sites is knowing where to start with a new or upgraded website. Read on for top tips, a checklist & free to download templates for your content.
Cookie Consent Popups in 2024
You may have noticed that we have no cookie consent popups on our site. We, as designers and web practitioners, have some real problems with those annoying cookie popups. And we are not alone…
Web design in Cheltenham – An updated comparative list
There are a surprising amount of small to medium web design firms operating in this Cotswold town. This is not an exhaustive list but one created from our network and experience.
Why Small Agencies are Best: like busy garages
A recent visit to our local garage got us thinking about why clients should choose small, efficient agencies. And how a local MOT garage is just like a small web agency.
Start a new development project on the right foot
Multiple times in Web Development you will go through the process of creating a new repository for a new application or project that you are tasked to build. We think it is really important to get the order of tasks correct at the start of a new application…
Accessibility Web Design Rules – Our upgraded website for NHS
Things we learnt by creating highly accessible website designs for the NHS & university sectors. Recent pitches and web briefs have put accessibility high on their list of needs, which is a great sign. However accessibility, just like GDPR, needs to be taken in context…
WWW – A tool for any creative. What, Who & Why is your work good?
Or not of course. An evaluation tool for any marketing creative piece – a poster, a website, a flyer, a brand. Most of all a piece of SEO copywriting.
Divi alt tags done right (in functions.php)
DIVI for Wordpress. Load Alt tags in Divi directly from the Media Library, pull alt tags in automatically even when these are added or changed from the Wordpress Media Library.
Check out our work on the BBC
It doesn’t happen often that some of our work appears on mass media, so please excuse our blatant plugging.
“We are going to tell you your baby is ugly. And you are going to thank us for it.”
This rather rude quote came up in conversation & it got us thinking about how we approach UX, strategy, design and projects in general…
(Practically) artwork for our new website
See under the hood of how we created the artwork for our new website. Spoilers – it was really good fun.
The Design Diamond
Simply stated, it aims to convince design students of the process of design. That without one of the four corners of the diamond then a design presentation (a crit or critique) will be weak.