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Futures, features and fixes – Setting your product team up for success

Successful and sustainable digital products come from a blend of innovation and iteration. Yet most design teams and their digital product roadmaps are out of balance.

Chris How

Chris How

26 July 2021

  • Viewpoint

Some of the best free fonts

As a product designer I generally do my best to help people find and think about content, not fonts. My preference is for clear, practical typography that supports a product's visual identity and adds no friction between a person and their goal.

James Gilyead

James Gilyead

10 April 2024

  • News

UX London early-bird pricing ends soon

Get your ticket by March 14th, if you haven’t already.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

8 March 2024

  • Tiny Lesson

Designing a workshop for UX London

At Clearleft, we talk about researching in the open. We believe in being transparent about our work and processes. We love what we do and talking about how we work.

Luke Hay

Luke Hay

29 February 2024

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The schedule for Patterns Day

Eight talks on design systems in one fun day.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

1 February 2024

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.”

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

8 June 2021

  • News

Improve your design leadership confidence with our new On Demand platform

Introducing our new On Demand platform offering exclusive access to a library of Leading Design talks

Rebecca smiles looking off camera

Rebecca Groves

1 February 2024

  • News

Patterns Day and more

The Patterns Day conference, the workshop the day after, and an Indie Web Camp on the weekend.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

25 January 2024

  • Viewpoint

Designing for Gen Z

Exploring the key principles and trends that define effective design for the most tech-savvy generation.

Michelle Winchester

Michelle Winchester

28 November 2023

  • Viewpoint

So that was Leading Design London 2023

Leading Design curator and host Rebecca Groves reflects on the learnings and highlights from Leading Design 2023.

Rebecca smiles looking off camera

Rebecca Groves

13 November 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 smiles looking off camera

Rebecca Groves

21 May 2021

  • Viewpoint

Making the Patterns Day website

The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

10 October 2023

  • Tiny Lesson

When planning a workshop start with the stops

Get more out of your workshops by giving the attendees a break.

Chris How

Chris How

5 October 2023

  • News

Patterns Day is back!

The one-day event focused on design systems returns on Thursday, March 7th 2024.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

4 October 2023

  • News

Service design breakfast club

The Service Design Breakfast Club is back! For the first time since the before-times, join us on October 5th 2023 in Brighton.

Richard Rutter

Richard Rutter

11 September 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

Trys Mudford

17 February 2021

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How UX has changed my approach to desk research

During a recent client project at Clearleft, I returned to my previous career specialisms: desk-based research and report writing. This is the story of how my UX experience changed my approach.

Sophie Count

Sophie Count

17 August 2023

  • Viewpoint

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

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

Richard Rutter

16 August 2023

  • Viewpoint

Coding prototypes

Write what you need to test a hypothesis. Then throw that code away.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith

9 August 2023

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