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In 2011 we started a bit of a tradition at Clearleft: disappearing into the countryside for a week, leaving client work behind, to hack on a brand new project from scratch. We call it Hack Farm. That first Hack Farm resulted in Map Tales, a little service for creating and sharing map-based stories. We had our second annual Hack Farm a couple of months ago.
Performance considerations in responsive design should be a holistic part of the shaping of a site, right from the initial UX work. Using the concept of a 'size budget' can help avoid making it just a development issue that gets tacked on at the end.
A final year student studying Interactive Design at Nottingham Trent University recently asked us some questions about Responsive Web Design. This is our response.
Brasília gives us a lesson about what happens when you design at the wrong level of zoom.
A lot of the discussions I have about our profession end with somebody saying Well it’s all just design really, or it’s just good design and bad design. This is a great way of ending a conversation when you're bored and have a bus to catch. It’s the designer's equivalent of Godwin's law.
We're thrilled to say that this year's Ampersand conference has now sold out! We're looking forward to welcoming everyone to Brighton next month for our second year of type-enthused festivities.
Thank you to everyone who came along to UX London last week. We had a splendid time and we hope you did too.
We've very excited to announce that tickets for Ampersand 2012 will be available from 10am (UK time) on Tuesday, March 6th.
In the last 7 years, dConstruct has presented 2175 minutes of insightful thinking from the brightest minds in the digital industry... inspirational talks which you can now delve into any time.
We're always keen to know whose wisdom is exciting folk in the UX community, so we've joined forces with our friends at Rosenfeld Media for a competition where we're looking for your suggestions.
Goodness, we've more super sponsors for UX London! Welcome aboard, Premier sponsors, Red Gate Software, and Associate sponsors, Super User Studio and UX Jobs Board.
After another fantastic and inspiring dConstruct, we're now looking forward to our next event, UX London. This year's site is up, and rather lovely it is too.
We couldn’t be more thrilled to announce our final UX London speaker: Bill Buxton. A true pioneer, Bill is Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research and author of Sketching User Experiences. Not only is Bill a trailblazing UX authority, he’s also one of the best speakers we’ve ever seen, which makes us even more excited that he’ll be joining our stellar line up.
Be sure to nab your place as swiftly as you can - our Super Early Bird places may have sold out in a few hours, but Early Bird tickets are still available. You can register through the UX London site, where you’ll find our full list of fantastic speakers.
We’re very excited to announce that Ampersand, our web typography conference, will return next year - back by public demand! We had a splendid time at this year’s inaugural event, which featured some fantastic speakers and a great crowd of font fans. We’ll be making further announcements, including details of our speakers, soon, but in the meantime mark Friday, June 15th in your diary!
Also, don’t forget to snap up your place at UX London 2012. Early Bird tickets are still available, so grab ‘em while you can!
We’re thrilled to have some fantastic sponsors on board for next year’s UX London: Executive sponsors Balsamiq, and Associate sponsors Axure and Optimal Workshop. The folk at Balsamiq are the creators of Mockups and myBalsamiq, the brilliant, rapid wireframing tools that reproduce the experience of sketching. Axure RP is one of the best known prototyping tools, used by UX professionals all over the world. The recently released Mac version of Axure RP has some big fans in the Clearleft office. And Optimal Workshop have taken their years of experience in usability and consulting to create a suite of usability study tools that we love - we regularly run Tree Tests and Card Sorts on our client projects.
Also, UX London tickets are still selling fast - there are only a handful of Early Bird places left, so be sure to nab yours quickly!
We’ve had to make space on the bookshelf this week as, very excitingly, we’ve won Net Magazine’s Agency of the Year Award - for the second time! We were entirely thrilled to win again, so thank you very much to the gang at .Net, and everyone who voted for us.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to attend the awards ceremony (though some of our former colleagues kindly accepted on our behalf), as we were all squirreled away in the Herefordshire countryside on what we’ve taken to referring to as Hack Farm. Here we spent a week developing a spontaneous, one-off project. We had a brilliant time, and came away with a new site which we’re pretty proud of: Map Tales, where you can easily create and share map-based stories. Take a look - and add your own tale, why don’t you?