Thinking

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”.

It’s been another busy week at Clearleft towers, as evidenced by the fact that we’re writing last weeks weeknotes on a Tuesday. The eagle eyed amongst you may also have noticed that our weeknotes suddenly jumped from the beginning of November to the beginning of December. Basically we’ve been so busy helping new clients get projects kicked off before Christmas that we accidentally skipped a whole month without noticing! Fortunately we’re back on the ball now, and looking forward to sharing what the studio has been up to.

We're recruiting for users to participate in a user research project in December and January. We're looking for prospective undergraduates at A level/BTEC college/6th form who are either going through the UCAS process, or will be going through the UCAS process. Participants will be paid for their time.

An anniversary occurred last week that I don’t want to let pass by unremarked. On November 24th of last year, I made this note...

This year’s Clearleft conferences may be over, but does that mean we’re resting on our laurels (eating mince pies)? No, it certainly does not. We’re already beavering away, preparing for next year’s UX London, and are very excited to say that tickets are now on sale.

Moving towards consent based decision making builds an environment of trust, saves time and empowers teams.

We’ve started to use a very simple system of 'Checking in' for each of our meetings. By taking the plunge and doing it, we’ve discovered quite a few unexpected benefits.

With web technologies improving year on year, we are no longer bound by it's constraints rather they are unlocking the possibilities for true web design.

The latest Clearleft internship project has just come to an end. It’s been truly inspiring.

I launched a new event as part of UX Brighton this month, a series of Lightning talks with the purpose of encouraging more people to share what their learning in a public space.

People of Brighton (and environs), I have a reminder for you. Did you know that there is an open device lab in the Clearleft office?

In the space of one week, Brighton played host to three excellent conferences...

This week, we learnt, shared, and learned some more.

This is second and final of the Hero's Journey UX Workshop. This part of the workshop is about identifying opportunities to help each hero along their journey and designing value proposition that embody those opportunities.