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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Supporting the women among us
Taking a minute to reflect on the resources and events that support the women among us to further our skills in digital and tech
Sophie Count
8 March 2023
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Reflections from San Francisco
With San Francisco being our third Leading Design conference in twelve months, I decided to take a moment and reflect on the patterns which emerged.
Rebecca Groves
2 March 2023
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Redesigning UX London
Tweaking the format of the event.
Jeremy Keith
21 February 2023
- Tiny Lesson
Three attributes for better web forms
Better UX through better HTML: inputmode, enterkeyhint, and autocomplete.
Jeremy Keith
23 January 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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Surveys – a useful, but dangerous research method
Large-scale surveys are commonly used for opinion polls or customer satisfaction. While they can be a vital tool for design research, they should be used with caution.
Luke Hay
20 January 2023
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What is internal service design?
Internal service design is a term Clearleft uses with clients to emphasise how important the employee experience is in shaping the customers’ experience.
Richard Rutter
17 January 2023
Clearleft's best bits of 2022
As we return from the recent festive break bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and ready to face what 2023 throws at us, we remind ourselves of the joys that 2022 brought with it.
Frances Ulph
4 January 2023
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?
Rebecca Groves
12 December 2022
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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
Designing a Utopian layout grid: working with fluid responsive values in a static design tool.
A layout grid is a useful aid for a designer organising information in a given space. Although these grids have their roots in print design, where dimensions are fixed, fluid layout grids still have some utility in responsive design.
James Gilyead
7 December 2022
Leading Design is headed Stateside again
We’re delighted to be able to bring Leading Design to San Francisco on 7 & 8 February 2023.
Rebecca Groves
5 December 2022
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Avoiding groupthink: fine-tuning CSS specifications
Every now and then Clearlefties are asked to help out the CSS Working Group. Invariably it’s also a chance to learn, not just about upcoming CSS, but also new methods of collaboration and group decision making.
Richard Rutter
21 November 2022
Lessons from Leading Design London 2022
Key take-aways from two days of learning, inspiration and connection with the Leading Design community
Rebecca Groves
8 November 2022
- Viewpoint
Service Designers don’t design services, we all do
We all contribute to designing a service that works from end to end and from front to back.
Katie Wishlade
11 November 2020
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That was dConstruct 2022
The last ever dConstruct.
Jeremy Keith
11 October 2022
Reasons to join us at Leading Design London 2022
Don't miss this opportunity to meet your peers from across the industry in an atmosphere where long lasting relationships are formed.
Rebecca Groves
10 October 2022
Reimagination at work
Adopting meaningful change and inclusivity in the workplace
Frances Ulph
30 September 2022
Designing Leading Design London
The curation process of a Leading Design event