Clearleft is twenty

From a personal perspective it’s great to look at Clearleft and see how true we still are to our original values and ambitions. We wanted to make the world a better place, one website at a time. We wanted to continuously hone our craft and have a positive and lasting impact everywhere we worked. These still hold true, and we’ve recently refined the way we describe ourselves to reflect that latter point. As strategic design partners we take great pleasure in bringing our craft of user-centred design to clients, shaping the way their in-house teams do design, and helping the organisation use design to its strategic advantage.

Our programme of events has always been fundamental to our efforts at raising the bar across the design industry. We ran our first conference within 3 months of starting Clearleft. Our next events will see us exploring the impact of AI on design in New York, and the future of design research here in Brighton.

The aspect that makes me most proud about Clearleft is its people. I’m continually surrounded by a brilliant team of colleagues who are passionate about what they do, absolute experts in their fields, ambitious and determined, curious about others, and downright nice to be with.

It’s testament to the fantastic people who have worked at Clearleft over the years that we’re still going strong while others have fallen by the wayside or been absorbed and diminished in buyouts. We’re fiercely independent, employee-owned, and I love that.