A couple of weeks ago we had Mental Health Awareness week at Red Badger, which concluded with a great talk by Christian Ferragamo from feelgoodco.

At Red Badger, we work in cross-functional teams - tech, design, delivery and business all working together whatever we are working on. Innovation, delivery, you name it. 

This title is a bit of an oxymoron. You can’t really call it a cross-functional team if there isn’t UX and Design in it to deliver your product. But we see so many times we have to dig deep to keep these disciplines in our delivery teams.

But, but... accessibility makes design less creative…?

Well, no. Good design is inherently accessible. Saying it stops you being creative is a bad excuse for NOT doing a good design. I’m going to take you through why it is so, purely from a visual…

We've been designing a number of sites using responsive web design (RWD) techniques and have developed a design process that works well for us. Following David's in-depth article about RWD, I wanted to introduce a few practical points concerning the…

I confess, I haven't been in touch with the latest and greatest of typography for quite a while. So it was great to get reacquainted at Ampersand Conference at Brighton last month. A little late, but I thought I will give a round up of my take aways.

I have recently read a book (Responsive Design Workflow) and a blog (Stop doing upfront design, it’s a waste of time) talking about how designers can work in agile and the benefit of doing so. I agree with pretty much all they suggest and highly…

I have attended the Thinking Digital conference 2013 in Gateshead for the first time this year, having read a review comparing it to TED. And all in all, I think it lived up to my expectations. One participant I met even told me that he preferred it…

How can we attract talented graduate designers? Can we be a serious contender in the design industry?

The traditional (or conventional) wisdom says the best place for graduates to learn their trades is at successful creative agencies or…

Are you a designer about to work in agile teams? Or are you a scrum master and don’t know how to handle your ever so grumpy creatives?

Red Badger works with agile methodology and I really like the way we work here. Surprised to hear a designer…

We are now well into the second phase of BBC Connected Studio's pilot project 'BBC Now!', developing away. (If you haven't heard about Connected Studio, check out this blog post "Connected Studio: the first pilots" by Adrian Woolard.) The first…

We recently launched a competition 'Windows Azure Media Challenge' with Fluxx. The prize is to win an event called RapidStart. In the 11th hour* before the competition was introduced, I was asked to make a flyer to support it. 

Following the BBC Connected Studio’s first Creative Studio for Homepage, Navigation and Search – attended by Cain and Alex, we were one of nine ideas invited back to work on two days of rapid prototyping to prove our concept at the Build Studio. On…

I always had a problem with the term 'User Experience (UX)' being used to describe a particular discipline - not that I don't agree with the fact that's what they are predominantly concerned with. I just don't like that it seems to imply that other…