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  • Opinion

Weighing up UX

A focus on user experience is good… “but if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.”

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

8 June 2021

  • News

Partnering with Google on web.dev

How Clearleft worked with the Chrome team to create a fifteen-part course on modern responsive design.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

13 January 2022

  • Opinion

The impoverished language of business

Designers often talk of the importance of speaking the language of business. So what is it and is it really so important for the success of design?

Andy Thornton

Andy Thornton

26 October 2021

  • Opinion

Designing with tokens for a flexible multi-brand design system

There’s an ever growing battle between efficiency and flexibility. How do you deliver an efficient white label product experience while allowing the flexibility for true brand expression between each roll out?

Jason Bird

Jason Bird

6 October 2021

  • Opinion

Faster horses, innovation and customer research

Given where we’ve ended up with fossil fuels, might we have been better off with faster horses after all?

Andy Thornton

Andy Thornton

29 September 2021

  • Advice
  • Opinion

5 themes from Leading Design Festival

In March 2021 we hosted the month-long Leading Design Festival. Themes started to emerge throughout the month. We have pulled out 5 of these themes to explore in more detail.

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Rebecca Groves

21 May 2021

  • Podcast

Halfway through season three of the Clearleft podcast

Three episodes down and three to go.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

28 September 2021

  • Tiny Lesson

Tiny lesson: Google search operators and syntax for UX desk research

In this video tiny lesson, I'll share the search shortcuts I use most often for time-efficient discovery.

Chris How

Chris How

21 September 2021

  • Advice

Accessibility testing

It’s not just about finding the issue—it’s about finding the issues at the right time.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

14 September 2021

  • Opinion

Engineering a better design test

How can we adapt our tools for better testing?

Benjamin Parry

Benjamin Parry

14 September 2021

  • Opinion

Design engineering and development at Clearleft

There's a growing gap between design and development. Is there a discipline that can smooth it over?

Trys Mudford

Trys Mudford

17 February 2021

  • Podcast

Season three of the Clearleft podcast

Rev your podcasting engines!

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

6 September 2021

  • Opinion

What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?

What exactly is the difference between coaching and mentoring and when should you choose one over the other?

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Rebecca Groves

23 August 2021

  • Opinion

What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?

What exactly is the difference between coaching and mentoring and when should you choose one over the other?

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Rebecca Groves

23 August 2021

  • Advice

It’s okay: Advice for research newcomers

Benjamin recently responded to a community post asking for advice for settling nerves during a first-time customer research activity.

Benjamin Parry

Benjamin Parry

18 August 2021

  • Announcement
  • News

Saying what we do, and doing what we say

We realised that although our core mission and vision hasn’t changed in 15 years, our core proposition has. In some ways, Clearleft are still seen as a web development agency or a website design studio. Neither of these things are bad; they just don’t reflect what we actually do today.

Jon Aizelwood

Jon Aizlewood

15 December 2020

  • Advice

Designing for innovation

Can design make a bigger difference to the bottom line? How do you find the time and space for design to foster innovation? What is ‘innovation’ anyway?

Alex Higgs

Alex Higgs

4 August 2021

  • Advice
  • Opinion

Integrating content with your design system

We share the answers to a few big unanswered questions on integrating content with your design system.

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Sashoy Beckford

16 July 2021

  • Opinion

The Benefits of Group Executive Coaching

We know the value in bringing together design leaders to enable them to share, collaborate and support each other.

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Rebecca Groves

16 July 2021

  • Advice

Remote research: Around the world in a day

It’s 7pm in the UK. I started my day talking to someone in Tokyo, before moving to Manchester, and I’ve just finished up in San Francisco. Eighteen timezones. 14,645km (give or take). And no jetlag.

Chris How

Chris How

1 June 2021

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