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Perhaps the most unique feature of GOV.UK is the single-mindedness with which it puts content first. And when you’re making a new service – as we have been with the new Queen’s Awards for Enterprise application – it’s important that your content will sit…
There’s a whole host of software that we use in order to keep Bit Zesty running smoothly. Below is a list of the most important tools we use as a company, and why we think they’re so great. Slack Slack is a private chat service…
The rebuild of the web app for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise has seen a number of iterations, and across those iterations the application has changed in its design, layout and content. Our research team for the QAE project remained consistently active from the initial…
We’ve spent four months working to rebuild the web app behind the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The prestigious business awards moved their application process online couple of years ago, so we had a natural starting point – the old system. But although you can learn…
Regardless of the ever-increasing ubiquity of User Experience Design, many businesses still are often unsure as to whether it will actually benefit them. In this blog post, I hope to provide an overview of what UX can mean for a digital business, whether it’s a…
In an interview for the New York Times in 2003, Steve Jobs presented his interviewer with one of the most quotable lines of the Apple main man’s career: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works too.”….
Scrum clearly provides many benefits for developers, but what about its advantages for the client and other stakeholders? This is a question I faced recently in a client meeting. To answer it, I first need to define Scrum itself. WHAT IS SCRUM? In layman’s terms,…
Since its release in 2004, Ruby on Rails has earned the devotion of some of the tech industry’s most talented programmers, becoming the go-to framework for advocates of clean and rapid web development thanks to its numerous technical strengths. However how will choosing Ruby on…
User Experience is a term that has been modelled and defined a thousand times, and many arguments have been started over its various nuances. UX, on some level, can be defined as the usefulness of a service, combined with its usability, combined with its aesthetic…