Thinking

Creating the utopian dream. A site created purely out of your component library.

Somewhere in between our big brand revamp and our new site going live, we've given ourselves a new palette of language to work with. This post looks at the reasons why considering your tone of voice is important when designing for components and patterns.

Today is International Women’s Day. Looking at their website, it’s clear to me that there is much to be inspired about, but also that there is much work still to be done.

The aesthetics of everyday objects can be a tricky one to get right, particularly when those objects have technical specifications that impact their overall design.

Making marginal gains in front-end performance.

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'.

For the last few months, we’ve been hard at work on the next version of Fractal.

If you’ve read Interaction 17: Bites from the Big Apple pt.1, you’ll know that some of the Clearleft team decamped to New York City in early February for Interaction 17. And hopefully you’ll have a idea of how the conference played out. If you haven’t already read it, take a quick look, then read on for part 2…

For anyone with an eye on current activity in the technology world, it will come as no surprise that the legendary Nokia 3310 'feature' phone has been relaunched by Finnish tech company HMD.

Recently at the Clearleft studio there has been somewhat of a push to readjust the balance between bustling working space and distraction-free productivity.

We have a tradition here at Clearleft of having the occasional lunchtime braindump. They’re somewhat sporadic, but it’s always a good day when there’s a “brown bag” gathering.

At the beginning of February, a bunch of us Clearleft folk set off for a week in New York City to attend Interaction 17, 6 - 8 February 2017. This was my first Interaction conference, so I thought I’d scribble down some takeaways from a newbie’s perspective.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Interaction 17 conference in New York with some colleagues from Clearleft.

With all this talk about shoes, I can't help but draw a comparison with our current (or former, depending on when you read this) site. While it's been a comfortable pair of shoes for us for some time, things around here have changed...

It’s all go, go, go at Clearleft while we’re working on a new version of our website …accompanied by a brand new identity. It’s an exciting time in the studio, tinged with the slight stress that comes with any kind of unveiling like this.

The day I started at Clearleft was the first time I met Richard Rutter. I only recognised him because I studied the team photographs prior to joining the company.