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As fans of the station, Clearleft are delighted to have won the contract to refine the Radio 4 website. Starting in February, Clearleft will be working with the BBC to help implement usability improvement across the site. We will also be looking to refresh the design of the site, while incorporating the excellent branding work done by Fallon. Can’t wait!

Early Bird registration gives you a £200 discount on the standard price of a ticket. You can book tickets either by using a credit card or by requesting an invoice. Any invoice requests received before the 31st Jan deadline will be covered by the Early Bird discount.

If you’re a member of the UPA or IA Institute you can receive a further discount of 10%, to book as a member you’ll need to quote UPADiscount in the discount box along with your UPA/IA Institute membership number or by quoting your UPA number when you request an invoice.

If you’re still unsure, check out our fantastic line-up, and here’s some advice on how to convince your boss to cover the cost.

For those of you who haven’t yet bagged your tickets for this year’s fantastic UX London, you may want to dash over and book them now before the early bird registration finishes on 31st January.

You can either book by credit card or if you complete the request, we’ll invoice you. Any invoice requests received before the deadline will be charged at the early bird rate.

So what are you waiting for? Come along and spend three days with the biggest names in the industry; Jesse James Garrett, Bill Moggridge, Liz Danzico, Scott McCloud and many more. You know you want to.

It’s cold and snowy down here in Brighton, so to celebrate the falling white stuff (and of course the various festivities at this time of year) Clearleft’s very own Natbat has made a snowy CSS3 animation surprise for all you Safari and Chrome users out there.

Drag the following link to your bookmarks bar and then click it on any website to make it snow on the interwebs.

Let it snow!

For exciting technical details on how this works read the write-up on Natalie’s site.

Natalie Downe will be running the CSS3 Wizardry workshop with Richard Rutter on 29th January 2010 in Brighton.

We’re looking for a spring intern to come and work at Clearleft in the new year.

We regularly run internships, each being ten weeks long. We’re looking for someone who’s enthusiastic and passionate about the web. If you think this is you or someone you know, drop Sophie a line with a CV and covering letter.

We’re really happy to announce that Lab 49 will be sponsoring UX London next year. Lab 49 is is a technology consulting firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry, helping clients effect positive change in their markets through technological innovation and a rich fabric of industry best practices and first-hand experience.

If you’re interested in sponsoring the event, details are available in the UX London sponsors section.

Clearleft has cemented its reputation at the forefront of the digital design industry by being named Design Agency of the Year at the prestigious .net Awards.

Amidst tough competition from web design companies across the globe, Clearleft was shortlisted following a public vote, and awarded top spot by a panel of 50 industry judges. The ceremony for the .net Awards was held at Altitude 360 in London’s Millbank Tower last night to celebrate the very best in web design and development.

We’re incredibly proud to have won this award. It’s a fantastic honour to be recognised by both the public and our peers. The award is a testament to the dedication of our hardworking team and the opportunities given to us by some wonderful clients.

Read .net magazine’s article about us (1.2MB JPG).

Washington D.C.-based Razoo.com encourages philanthropy and raises money through online donations for thousands of nonprofits across the U.S..

In September, Clearleft began a phased project resulting in new branding and a more engaging homepage with clearer messaging for their main site and Minnesota-based sister site, GiveMN.org. Their launch was celebrated with a Give To The Max fundraising drive for the nonprofits of Minnesota, which saw $14 million raised through the new site in just 24 hours!

Feedback for the homepage redesign has been overwhelmingly positive. We’ve now started work to improve the user experience of the rest of the site including the donation process, and look forward to seeing this further increase the effectiveness of the site over the coming months as this is rolled out.

A short while ago we launched a competition to win one of six books authored by some of next year’s UX London speakers. All you had to do was to be following either @uxlondon or @clearleft on 1st December, the day UX London tickets launched.

Well we haven’t hung about, we have the winners!

We have randomly selected followers from both @clearleft and @uxlondon and a book will be winging it’s way to them shortly. The winners are: @leeharding83, @uxabilityuk, @robjohnston, @mycatistheboss, @kjellmorten and @juliawerth. We’ll be contacting them directly to send on their books.

Entering is easy, you just need to be following @uxlondon or @clearleft on Twitter. We’ll draw random names from our Clearleft competition hat on Tuesday 1st December, the day tickets launch.

Interested in coming to UX London 2010? Well hurrah, the new site is now up!

We’ve got a fantastic line up for next year including Bill Moggridge, Peter Morville, Jeff Patton, Leah Buley and many more. Go have a look. The conference combines a day of inspirational talks with two days of in-depth workshops and runs from 19th - 21st May 2010.

We’ll be releasing tickets from 1st December 2009, and if you grab one quickly at the Early Bird price (£895), you’ll save yourself £300.

We’re pleased to announce a full day CSS3 Wizardry workshop with Clearleft’s expert client-side engineers Natalie Downe and Richard Rutter on 29 January 2010.

CSS3 may be considered by some as a collection of distant concepts: far in the future and irrelevant to their daily lives. However, in this day-long workshop, you will learn how these exciting new concepts can be applied today! This comprehensive and practical hands-on workshop will show you how to prepare your websites and coding methodology for the future, and what you can use right here, right now.

Natalie and Richard’s CSS3 workshop at this year’s dConstruct sold out extremely quickly, so make sure you grab your discounted early bird ticket as soon as you can! Book now.

We’re very pleased to be working with Universal Networks (formerly NBCUniversal) again, having redesigned the Sci-Fi site earlier this year. Our very own Paul Lloyd is currently working on the site designs for their five new channels.

We’ve also recently finished the design for this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Our new Creative Director, James Bates, is continuing to work with the BFI on a number of other projects, including the design of their main site which we hope to show you soon.

Finally, the chaps at Mozilla were so impressed with our Firefox Add-On’s site redesign that they’ve asked us to redesign the Camino site.

Want to listen to the talks from this year’s dConstruct? Well, the audio of Adam Greenfield’s fantastic “Elements of a Networked Urbanism” is now available and others will be released over the coming weeks. Transcripts will be made available by our lovely sponsors Opera Software. We’ll let you know when these are ready.

We’re very pleased to announce that Cole Henley has won the Time Capsule Competition with his map photo. We love maps, and we really liked Cole’s idea to put them in the time capsule.

We had over 200 entries and some really fantastic ideas, which made choosing the winner difficult. Thank you to everyone to entered, we hope you had fun!

We boiled it down to the final five before picking Cole’s entry. We also like new_folder’s Manbag entry, OxOX’s time capsule banana, Jim Purbrick’s Target Bot-E and Maykel Looman’s 2008 Parking Ticket.

Congratulations to Cole, and we’re looking forward to seeing you lovely ticket holders at dConstruct next week!

We’re really pleased to announce that Ben Cerveny will be joining Mike Migurski at this year’s dConstruct. Their talk “Let’s See What We Can See (Everybody Online And Looking Good)”, looks like it’s going to be fantastic insight into how we can make sense of the information emerging from the internet.

If you’d like to see Ben and Mike along with all our other fantastic speakers, you’ve still got time to grab a ticket.