Thinking

Objectives and Key Results—or OKRs for short—are all the rage in Silicon Valley at the moment. So we've decided to start a 6-month experiment to see if they'd work for Clearleft.

Andy’s been playing Devil’s Advocate again, defending the much-maligned hamburger button. Weirdly though, I think I’ve seen more blog posts, tweets, and presentations defending this supposed underdog than I’ve seen knocking it.

It's tempting to think of testing with screen-readers as being like testing with browsers. With browser testing, you're checking to see how a particular piece of software deals with the code you're throwing at it. A screen reader is a piece of software too, so it makes sense to approach it the same way, right?

don’t get up to London all that often—maybe once every few weeks; just long enough for the city’s skyline to have changed again. Yesterday was one of those days out in the big smoke.

The hamburger menu has gone from handy UI element to social pariah. In this article Andy Budd discusses why some of the criticism may be premature and ill-informed.

Happy New Year

Here at the Clearleft towers we use DigitalOcean and our servers run Ubuntu 14.04 and Nginx 1.8.0.

Don't be afraid of emotion in the workplace, it's not weakness in fact it can be an infectious attribute which can benefit you and an entire team.

Following our very jolly Christmas dinner, I thought it would be merry to gather intel on the Clearlefties' 1) favourite Christmas song, and 2) what they received from their Secret Santa. And here's what they said...

The 20 Second Gut Test is a workshop which can help you discover an initial visual design direction. It helps you identify general design aesthetics and is a good technique to help you get started.

When I found out that I was building the new UX London website, I was really excited. My first attendance was when I was at University, and it was my first ever conference experience. I remember discovering a whole world of user experience that I didn't get to see from the classroom. I left with a notebook full of scribbles and I met lots of friendly and inspiring people. It's amazing that a few years on, I am writing about building the new UX London website.

Some thoughts on 'When Agile's not creative'.

Agile as a methodology tends to focus so quickly on the details of a product that it's hard to get a sense of the bigger picture.

We’re getting festive here at Clearleft Towers. Today marks the first day we’ve had Christmas music on (very exciting, especially as I’ve been trying to sneak The Waitresses’ Christmas Wrapping onto the playlist since the end of November…). Mark has been baking some delicious Stollen. A very tall tree arrived, courtesy of Anna C. And there’s been some festive jumper action…

A lot of the talks at this year’s Chrome Dev Summit were about progressive web apps. This makes me happy. But I think the focus is perhaps a bit too much on the “app” part on not enough on “progressive”.