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Imperial College London website redesign
Clearleft worked with Imperial College London to transform the university’s website, aligning an ambitious new strategy with a bold new brand.
- Case study
Imperial College London
This is the story of how we worked with Imperial to transform its website, aligning an ambitious new strategy with its bold new brand.
- Case study
Ingenia
This is the story of how we helped the Royal Academy of Engineering redesign the website for their magazine, [Ingenia](https://www.ingenia.org.uk/).
- Viewpoint
Making the Patterns Day website
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Jeremy Keith
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Strutt & Parker
This is the story of how we helped one of the UK’s leading estate agents tackle their design debt.
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
This is the story of how we designed and built a beautiful, maintainable website for discerning readers of non-fiction.
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Designing a Utopian layout grid: working with fluid responsive values in a static design tool.
A layout grid is a useful aid for a designer organising information in a given space. Although these grids have their roots in print design, where dimensions are fixed, fluid layout grids still have some utility in responsive design.
James Gilyead
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Malvern Panalytical
This is the story of how we laid the foundations for an ambitious digital transformation by streamlining a fragmented assortment of elements and patterns across a range of digital properties.
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Neon
This is the story of how we helped EngineeringUK take an idea for a new platform and design, build and release it in a matter of months.
- Tiny Lesson
Tiny Lesson: How to run an ERT test
A tiny lesson on how to run a BERT test to measure how people perceive your brand.
Benjamin Parry
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Tiny Lesson: Sketching, the timeless design tool
Katie shares a tiny lesson on a foolproof, simple, design tool.
Katie Wishlade
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How to measure content
Five different ways to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of content.
Rachel McConnell
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What is UX writing and why does it matter
Good content is one of the most fundamental elements of good design. Here’s why everyone’s talking about UX writing
Rachel McConnell
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Theirworld.org
This is the story of how we worked with Theirworld to create an entirely new web presence, one that helped their rich flow of news, resources and campaigns improve children’s education and human rights across the world.
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Travelling light
Whenever I head off into the Great Outdoors I do like to be prepared, which is really just the Scouts way of saying ‘planning for the worst’.
Ben White
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Introducing 'Voice Guidelines': for all your voice UI design needs
When you're designing for a new medium such as voice interface, it's helpful to have all the concise guidance in one place. To to solve this problem, we created voiceguidelines.clearleft.com.
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A light touch
In recent years, technological advances have enabled easier and more open connections between the digital and physical worlds. As a result we've seen a host of amazing products that have capitalised on the ability to be 'connected'.
Ben White
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Wellcome Library
Clearleft helped the global medical charity Wellcome Trust bring its extensive collection to a digital audience.
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Wellcome Trust Digital Stories
This is the story of how we created a storytelling platform for exploring The Wellcome Trust’s eclectic collection of medical and historical artefacts.
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It’s not a straight story. Designing with narrative for non-linear experiences.
It’s the end of the day and the orange street lights are coming on. Tucked between the skyscrapers of London’s Liverpool Street station there’s a terraced house, no more than 4 storeys high, a rich smell of wood smoke, and baked bread. Candles flickering in the window.
Ellen de Vries
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On web typography
Typography - it’s at the heart of the web experience but with so many different options available it’s sometimes hard to know where to start when designing. Font stacking, embedding or web fonts? And what’s more important, brand or user experience? And what does this all mean for the designer who just wants to try and make type look great across as many devices as possible without losing their mind?
Ben White
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Tate Modern’s multimedia guide – a review
Ben visits the Tate Modern and reviews their multimedia guide. He finds some usability issues, and some great opportunities in the near future.
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On Responsive Design
A final year student studying Interactive Design at Nottingham Trent University recently asked us some questions about Responsive Web Design. This is our response.