INSIGHTS

our thoughts on digital craft, creativity and inspiration.

What we're learning, thinking about, and occasionally arguing about. Design strategy, development deep-dives, and the occasional hot take.

designMar 29, 2026

Requirements to Code

When should you start prototyping? If you're still asking that question, the answer is yesterday.

designDec 6, 2015

Designing for thumbs

Screens keep getting bigger but thumbs haven't evolved to match. With foldables, tablet hybrids, and phones pushing well past six inches, the way people physically hold and interact with your app has never mattered more. If your most important UI is still pinned to the top of the screen, we need to talk.

designMar 30, 2026

When Every Website Looks the Same, Nobody Wins

Somewhere along the way, the web stopped being interesting. Conversion rate optimization became the only metric that mattered and every site started looking like the same A/B tested template. We're not saying data doesn't matter. We're saying it shouldn't be the only thing driving design.

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buildMar 30, 2026

The Reports of Our Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Every few months a new headline declares that AI will replace developers entirely. It won't. But it will replace developers who refuse to evolve. The real extinction event isn't AI taking your job. It's you pretending AI doesn't change what your job looks like.

designMar 30, 2026

Your Brand Font Is Breaking Your Product

That gorgeous serif your branding agency picked looks stunning on a billboard. It's also nearly illegible at 14px on a phone screen. Typography decisions made for print are actively harming digital products, and it's time for brand designers to start thinking screens first.

designMar 30, 2026

Death by a Thousand Pop Ups

Cookie banners, newsletter modals, notification prompts, chat widgets, discount overlays, and age gates. Your users haven't even seen your content yet and they've already closed five things. The mobile web is drowning in interruptions and most of them are actively driving people away.

testMar 30, 2026

If They Can't Use It, It Doesn't Matter How Good It Looks

Accessibility isn't a compliance checkbox and usability isn't a nice to have. They're the foundation that every great user experience is built on. If your product doesn't work for everyone, it doesn't work. Full stop.

buildMar 30, 2026

The Stack That Actually Ships

Next.js paired with a headless CMS isn't trendy. It's the most practical architecture for teams that need to ship fast, scale confidently, and stop fighting their tools. Here's why we've made it our default and why your team probably should too.

buildMar 30, 2026

Your New Favourite Coworker Doesn't Need Coffee

AI isn't coming for your development workflow. It's already here, writing your boilerplate, catching your bugs, and generating your test cases while you focus on the work that actually requires a brain. The teams that figure out how to integrate these tools properly will build faster, ship cleaner, and wonder how they ever operated without them.

buildMar 30, 2026

Forget the Waterfall

Waterfall process was built for teams with time and headcount to burn. Modern agencies have neither. Agile isn't a buzzword anymore, it's how small teams ship better products faster, and with AI accelerating every phase of the cycle, the gap between agile shops and everyone else is only getting wider.

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