In our work with the BBC and CBeebies in particular and the development of the successful Kizzu series of children’s apps, we’ve picked up a number of interesting insights into designing digital products for pre-school children. We’ve covered a few of them here. Children are people. It may s ... more
I want to discuss whether user experience (UX) should be baked into the brains of every hire you make or if it merits being totally separated out within the agency. It is really interesting looking through various blog posts that debate the subject and I realised there were so many views of what a ... more
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2011 was introduced into the UK last May as a response to wider European legislation on Internet Privacy, specifically around the use of cookies. What are cookies? Cookies are small text files stored on users comput ... more
GIVE YOUR WEBSITE A LIFT Your website is now live. It is targetted, user friendly, with a strong identity and you proudly declare, “it's doing its job brilliantly”. Until you find out that after a simple Google search, it is languishing somewhere at the bottom of the 7th p ... more
On the 22nd of September Facebook held its annual conference in San Francisco. Hundreds of developers on tenterhooks attended and Facebook fanatics around the world tuned in to hear Mark Zuckerberg’s big plans. So was the event as much of an anti-climax as the launch of the non-exis ... more
<p> <b>What the pioneers of computing can teach us about the future of education</b></p> <p>We live in a world full of technology, a world constantly changing, where information travels at the speed of light and knowledge is but a click away. I don't know ab ... more
Thanks to our guest writer for this month, Catherine Toole, CEO of the digital copywriting agency Sticky Content. “In 2011, content strategy will be bigger than social media”. So declared Kristina Halvorson in her keynote at last Spring’s Content Strategy Forum in Paris. ... more
Hi my name is Matt, and I am an addict. It’s been 34 days since my last tweet, check-in or status update. I am a social media addict who, in a single 24-hour period, is capable of posting upwards of 20 tweets, five check-ins, and three status updates – on a quiet day. I became ... more
The action packed second video instalment of codegent news for our monthly newsletter Third Thursday. Let us know what you think! The team do some Circus Skills training! Other links referenced... Our new HR referral scheme - Help us hire, get Cash! St ... more
We are really pleased to announce the re-launch of our popular Twitter application - Twilert - at the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin Texas as part of the UK Digital Mision. Twitter search alerts via email Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email upd ... more