The user experience design (UXD) industry is an emerging field; it’s up for debate exactly when user experience (UX) started, but Don Norman coined the term ‘User Experience’ in the 1990s. This means not many…
It is International Women's Day today, and whilst it feels crude to only celebrate women's efforts globally on one day of the year, it is equally only right that companies partake and make noise about it. This year’s theme is #choosetochallenge:…
Picture this. You’ve spent months toiling away, building a fantastic new product. You’ve identified your users, you have your value proposition nailed, you’ve conducted extensive research into user needs and feature ideas, have built a scalable…
It’s been over two years since I first wrote about how the Women at Silicon Roundabout conference inspired me to finally take action, so I thought it would be a good time to update how I’m getting on.
Know thy customer - how well do you know your customer? Are there new ways you could be engaging with them? Workshops, hackathons, product demos, anything that gives you the opportunity to have a two-way conversation with them. What are their pain…
As a user experience designer user testing is a key component of the UXD process, offering the opportunity to test if your designs will work for your users and give you a greater overall understanding about the product you are building.
Launched in June 2020 as Red Badger’s social impact initiative, Mission…
How can we diversify the tech workforce? Where do we even begin? I’m sure you’ve heard all the questions before. While I know they are all important, I recently took part in a campaign focused instead on; how can we stop having conversations and…
Cain Ullah, CEO of Red Badger, in an interview with Barry Matthews and Barry Murphy, Co-founders of Employer’s Social Mobility Alliance (ESMA).
Following the Mission Beyond launch event in June, we had some brilliant questions posed by the audience that we didn't get a chance to discuss. Luckily, Matthew Syed, the author of 'Rebel Ideas' was so kind to take the time out to respond to…
An article by Cain Ullah and Mara Zalite
How businesses can step up to improve social mobilityAuthors: Holly Hensler and Sam Taylor
The UK has a big social mobility problem. People from lower socio-economic backgrounds face challenges in building the kind of lives others take for granted.
Boel’s passion lies in building and developing teams to deliver sustainable business growth. Her experience ranges from delivering…
A few weeks ago we launched Mission Beyond - a social initiative to bring together business leaders and other actors with brilliant minds and a sense of purpose to contribute to society and the planet.
The last 18 months have drastically changed the way I think about developing digital products. My background is in technology. I started as a software engineer working with a cross-functional team at Red Badger. At that time my thinking about a…
Uncertainty has had an ever-increasing presence in our complex economic and social systems – and it's reached a new height with the Covid-19 pandemic. As we endure through these uncharted times, Dr. Mariana Mazucatto's work on mission-oriented…