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.”
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Supporting your customer support staff with internal service design
Are your frontline staff wrestling with poorly designed digital tools held together with fragile processes?
Chris How
16 August 2023
- Viewpoint
Using service design to prevent bad decisions
A little bit of service design can go a long way. The trick is to be focussed, purposeful and design your communication with a specific outcome in mind.
Richard Rutter
16 August 2023
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Coding prototypes
Write what you need to test a hypothesis. Then throw that code away.
Jeremy Keith
9 August 2023
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What to expect at a Leading Design retreat
Our Leading Design retreats are specifically created to provide design leaders with the space they need to develop strategies for success.
Rebecca Groves
1 August 2023
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.
Rebecca Groves
21 May 2021
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Recruiting for UX research
Finding the right participants for UX research is vital for ensuring valid results and insights. In this blog post, we’ll cover how to find the right people to run research with.
Luke Hay
1 August 2023
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UX London 2023 – The Clearleft best bits
As the dust settles on UX London 2023, we've had some time to reflect on our trip to the city and the thought-provoking discussions, themes, and key takeaways from the event. In the days that followed, members of the team shared their favourite moments from the event, which we've highlighted below.
Frances Ulph
28 June 2023
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My journey to UX design
It is never too late to change your career. This is my journey to becoming a Junior UX Designer at Clearleft.
Sophie Count
13 June 2023
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Take time to recharge and realign
In addition to the Leading Design conference, we know that some leaders also want space for more inward reflection. So, we developed our Leading Design retreats to allow time to recharge and realign.
Rebecca Groves
8 June 2023
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
17 February 2021
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A look back at our 2022 retreat
In March 2022 we had the pleasure of taking a curated group of design leaders on a life changing retreat where they had the opportunity to reflect, recharge and reconnect with themselves.
Rebecca Groves
1 June 2023
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Accessibility audits for all
Catching some accessibility issues doesn’t need to be left to the experts.
Jeremy Keith
1 June 2023
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Introducing the UX London jobs board
Digital design & UX jobs in London and far far beyond...
Louise Ash
30 May 2023
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The intersectionality of web performance
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Jeremy Keith
3 May 2023
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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 Aizlewood
15 December 2020
- Tiny Lesson
Delivering your first workshop within the UX community
Steps to making sure it is a roaring success
Sophie Count
24 March 2023
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Story before screens
Reflections from our storytelling workshop with Ben Sauer on communicating with confidence to become proficient presenters.
Carly Farrer
21 March 2023
- Tiny Lesson
Eliminating dead ends for a better user journey
Smooth journeys begin by ensuring there is a journey to take.
Alex Edwards
20 March 2023
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Calculating the value of user research
Can you put a price on the insights gained from evaluative or generative research?