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How a Bake Off led to .HEIC and .WEBP support

This week we had an 18a Bake Off! We can't have our usual Christmas Party so we're going to try to do a few Christmassy things via Zoom - and we started with everyone needing to bake something on the theme of a "Snowman". My son was our judge -…

You can’t please all of the people all of the time (Instagram doesn’t)

Don't fall into the trap of spending more than you need to on development.

New UCN security features for Bank Security Printing

Our long standing client Bank Security Printing came to us recently for assistance with implementing a UCN (Unique Coded Number) system for their cheque printing procedures. A UCN is an ISF (Image Survivable Feature) which adds a powerful layer of fraud prevention to cheques, which may not be used by as…

3 things you might not need in your MVP (although you’ll probably disagree)

When you're planning a start up and need to stick to a budget you need to be ruthless with what features you include.

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The other reason you need a MVP

There are lots of reasons you need to start with a MVP - but one is less well known

Why I don’t show a client a website half way through build

If you're managing an Agile build, you need to be careful of showing too much too soon.

Why getting hacked is expensive

Getting hacked can be expensive - for several reasons.

Google Analytics and cookies: can you use IP anonymisation?

How to put together a cookie policy strategy and is IP anon for you?

Who needs to pay for security upgrades?

There's always more and more you can do as there's always more and more people out there discovering ways to do things they shouldn't do.

Perfectionist or procrastinator? And the value of Coming Soon pages

Fail fast and don't procrastinate. How to launch a start up without spending your life savings.

5 ways we’ve used the web to combat the challenges of 2020

2020 has certainly been a very different sort of year. We've been thankful that for us - despite the team all working from home - it's been business as usual. But it hasn't been for our clients - so we've been helping them in various ways to navigate through the…

The importance of not making assumptions in your UX

Assume makes an ass of you and me. Don't expect your audience to know how you work until you tell them.