Recent posts and selected tweets.
One of the initial and most important tasks on a digital project of any size is to create a usable and intuitive navigation structure and, while most organisations already value audience analysis, user journeys and user-centred design, many struggle to break away from mirroring their internal structures when devising an Information Architecture (IA).
Last year we decided to make some resolutions to help us go further in our mission to be a responsible business, for our team, society and the environment.
We watched with interest last week as the Arts Council England announced their National Portfolio for 2018‑2022.
2016 was a good year for Kind. We completed some great work for our clients, won some exciting new ones and took on our first employees. So what does 2017 hold for us?
Worst performance since… 2014 #ENGISL
What if we could make this data work for our users by creating a more relevant, engaging and personalised experience?
Recently, we’ve seen a lot of articles and tweets from digital agencies proclaiming “Mobilegeddon” is coming on 21st April (argh, that’s tomorrow!). Is it time to panic?
RT @madebykind Vision first. Planning second. Why strategy is important. madebykind.com/blog/…
When working in teams, especially those that are based in different locations (or even different businesses) it’s important for the sharing or handover of production code to be as in-depth as possible.
Every project, and every client, is different. Different constraints, different objectives and different personalities mean that we can’t always fit a project into a process we decided on months or even years ago.
When organising a digital project, it’s often difficult to communicate what it is you’re looking for to a prospective agency, especially if you haven’t run a digital project before, or if you have and it didn’t go to plan.
Kind was born 3 months ago, but wasn’t christened for a good few weeks as we searched for a name that was ‘just right’
Something new… madebykind.com
Being seated next to new people at weddings, birthdays etc. the go-to conversation starters pop up early on: ‘So, how do you know x?’, ‘What do you do for a living?’
Gave my website a bit of a ‘performance polish’. It’s pretty damn fast now! mathayward.com #geektweet
Without a database there’s nothing to query when wanting a search function, so I went about building a work around.
I wrote a feature for Net magazine’s December issue about creating a living modular framework.
This is a real discussion within the Erskine front-end team about CSS naming conventions for a button.
If you’ve got a copy of @netmag this month, check out my lovely face (and read my article) on page 84… instagram.com/p/hfxsDCS19w/
RT @erskinedesign Just launched — a mobile first redesign of http://endsleigh.co.uk
Being approached by a couple of enthusiastic students and asked “how do we get a job in the industry?” was a surprisingly awkward experience.
Music is an important part of advertising. It can evoke feelings which influence a consumers mood.
This week one of my colleagues was amazed to hear that Twitter is written using pure CSS and not a preprocessor.
The definition of spam is an unsolicited electronic message. (That and canned meat of dubious origins).
A while back I started working on a pretty nice, but simple, interactive HTML5 video.
As a web developer of some 10 years, there are two things I’m regularly asked by friends and acquaintances: “Can you build me a website?” and “Can you teach me web design?”
SEO shouldn’t exist. In a perfect world, there would be no place for Brian the Search Engine Optimisation Consultant or any of his cronies.
Tribe Latest - Time to get your shades on and start selling createsend.com/t/r-036A7F4F19…
Last month Craig and I gave a talk at Second Wednesday, a monthly Nottingham-based event for creative and digital people, entitled The Responsive Web.
Been working on a pretty nifty HTML5 interactive video today. Keep ‘em peeled. #flashisdead
I recently wrote a feature about responsive email design for Creative Bloq, an online magazine covering 3D, graphic design, illustration, web design.
Rob Antill recently launched his website showcasing his talent for Stereographic photography. By the end of the first day it had received over 6,000 hits and the logo masking was the hottest web design topic on Reddit.
