If it wasn’t for the Foundation Apprenticeship work placement with Border Crossing UX, I…
read more about Why UX Design deserves recognition and is valuable?Here at Border Crossing UX we’ve had a wonderful opportunity to run a foundation…
read more about Why User Experience is significant?Our application to continue as a named supplier across all four lots, (digital outcomes, digital specialists, user research studios and user research participant recruitment), of the Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 framework has been accepted.
read more about Digital Outcomes and Specialists 5 FrameworkAs 2020 comes to a close it seems an understatement to say this has been quite a year. For all of us this has been a year of upheaval, worry and fear. But it has also been a moment to come together and appreciate each other. So, we want to say a big thank you to all our Clients, Partners and friends that have inspired, supported and collaborated with us in extraordinary circumstances over the last 12 months.
read more about Merry Christmas and Festive opening hours 2020Transformation projects are conducted by mature or larger organisations and generally refer to a programme of projects, that when delivered will have a transformational impact. By their nature these are high risk/reward and always involve a substantial investment of financial and intellectual capital.
read more about Fostering alignment throughout a transformationInvesting in your competitors isn’t a common business decision. However, this is precisely what we decided to do at the start of lockdown.
read more about Sharing the accessibility improvements we’ve madeIf you’re reading this over the coming weeks we hope all is well with you, your family, friends and colleagues. Over the past few weeks we’ve been monitoring the impact of the Coronavirus. Responding to guidelines and maintaining safety is now our primary priority.
read more about Our response to Coronavirus (COVID-19)Border Crossing UX are delighted to announce that we’ve been added to Scottish Procurement’s DPS 2.0 for Digital Technology Services Lot 1 (Digital Projects) & Lot 2 (Digital Resources).
read more about Our services are now available via the DPS for Digital Technology ServicesWe’re delighted to announce that we’ve recently completed an important internal project. We’ve now passed the IASME Standard assessment which includes GDPR requirements as well as Cyber Essentials.
read more about We’re now IASME Standard, GDPR & Cyber Essentials Certified2019 has been quite a year. Despite everything that’s going on in the World, we’ve had one of our strongest financial year’s. So, we’d like thank all of our amazing clients, partners and friends – you’ve made it a truly spectacular year!
read more about Thank you for an awesome 2019 from Border Crossing UXWe are delighted to be named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists 4 framework. The aim of this framework is to facilitate the digital transformation of public sector services.
read more about Our Services are now available via the Digital MarketplaceIt’s been over 5 years since we left the city centre of Edinburgh and set up Research and Facilitation Studio at the Shore. So, we thought it is about time to share our top things to do in one of Edinburgh’s most creative quarters.
read more about Our top places to go and things to do at the ShoreOn September 20th 2019 User Testing will be hosting, Radical innovation through human insights. User Testing will share key insights from their UK financial services customer study and host a panel discussion with industry leaders in CX.
read more about User Testing: Radical innovation through human insightsAre you going to the Lloyds Banking Group: ConnecTech conference? Then we’ll see you there, as Border Crossing UX has been invited to deliver a talk on Why UX Matters and two workshops on how to use Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking.
read more about Are you heading to LBG’s ConnecTech 2019?For the 3rd year running, CGI has invited us to design and co-facilitate their design sprint at the Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) Innovation Festival. We’ll be exploring: ‘How Might We enhance rural communities and the environment using emerging technologies?’
read more about Innovation Festival 2019: Enabling the Rural RevolutionDigital Transformation is no longer the new kid on the block. But the need to deliver a transformation efficiently and effectively has never been more important. That’s why I was pleased to see the immense turnout for DIGIT.FYI’s 4th Annual Digital Transformation Conference.
read more about Why Digital Transformations fail (and how to stop them)2018 has been a great year and we’d like to say a massive thank you to all our wonderful Clients, Collaborators, Partners and Friends. We’ve worked on some great projects this year and with some great people across sectors and have solved some truly interesting business challenges.
read more about Festive opening hours at Border Crossing UX 20182018 has been an incredibly busy year for us. Which is why we’ve been looking forward to the Summer, as it’s normally a bit quieter. But not this year … we’ve been flat out with projects, talks and festivals! So, here’s our latest round-up.
read more about What we’ve been up to at Border Crossing UX in 2018Dynamic Earth once again provided a unique but intimate location for Fintech Scotland 2017. Fintech leaders from around the UK attended the conference exploring innovation and regulation within the financial services sector.
read more about DIGIT Fintech Scotland 2017: Conference ReviewFintech Scotland 2017 was another great event from the team at Digit.fyi bringing together talent from across the sector. After two days of debate and discussion here’s our infographic of how this multi-billion pound industry has grown.
read more about Infographic: The Growth of FinTech in ScotlandLast week Calum and I went to the EICC for Turing Fest 2017. With a pen and notebook in hand, we took advantage of what the Strategy and Product streams had to offer. Here is a round up of my top three talks and takeaways.
read more about Turing Fest 2017 – our top conference highlightsThe Turing Talks took place last month. A day packed with disruptive insight that challenged attendees to think differently. As proud sponsors of the conference and the Turing Trust, there was no chance we were going to miss this event!
read more about Turing Talks 2017 – using technology for goodStrathclyde University Chamber Choir is a Glasgow-based charity boasting European performances and live BBC Radio broadcasts. They wanted to reach a larger audience online. We worked with them to help their music reach more people.
read more about Supporting Strathclyde University Chamber ChoirThe Internet of Things (IoT) is the front line of innovation. Found all around us, its applications present challenges for both hardware and design. To overcome those challenges, designers need to adopt the right process: user-centred design.
read more about User Centred Design for the Internet of Things (IoT)UX Scotland 2017, now in it’s fifth year, is the conference for all with an interest in user experience (UX) and design. With less than three weeks to get your tickets now for the opportunity to connect and learn from industry leaders.
read more about Don’t miss out on UX Scotland: 7th to 9th of June 2017After years of excitement, promise and disappointment, the 3D era is over. Now, VR appears to have taken over the reins. As both are troubled by similar problems, I wanted to discover what lessons VR can take from the demise of 3DTV?
read more about What can VR learn from 3DTV?Experts and professionals often attempt to predict what the next big trends will be. But do they get them right? I’ve had a look back at articles and headlines. Here are 3 of the biggest predictions that caught my eye and how they really did.
read more about UX Design Predictions 2016 – Were They Right?Merry Christmas 2016! It has been a mixed year for us at Border Crossing UX, a year of change in business and environment. 2016 for us was a year of growth, development and a lot of hard work! We are focusing on our achievements during this festive time.
read more about Merry Christmas 2016 from Border Crossing UXResponsive and Adaptive design are two common approaches for website development. Both allow websites to be experienced on different sized devices. But, it’s important to be aware of the key differences before choosing.
read more about Responsive vs Adaptive Design for Website DevelopmentI was delighted to attend ScotChain 16, which brought together people from academia and industry. Here is my take on the afternoon and how Blockchain technology means the real digitisation of value, not just information.
read more about ScotChain 16: Blockchain The Digitisation of ValueWhether it’s a tin opener or a website, if people can’t use it, they won’t. Usability is integral to success. It directly influences the user experience. Poor usability impacts brand perception, employee productivity and your bottom line.
read more about Usability: The Core Principles of Web UsabilityDelivering an experience that truly meets end-user needs and goals is difficult. Often, compelling user experiences are the result of an iterative design process. But how do you validate your designs in user testing without wastage?
read more about What is a Prototype and How Do They Reduce Wastage?A user experience persona is a fictional character that represents the needs and constraints of a range of real users. It is essentially a design tool used to inform the design at the beginning of a process and validate decisions in the later stages.
read more about Why Do User Experience (UX) Personas Matter?A Diary Study is a longitudinal research method used for collecting qualitative user data. It is self-documented to promote honest feedback reflecting their experiences. It’s a perfect way to understand what people think and feel.
read more about What is a Diary Study and Why Should You Care?Its Summer 2016 and normally, we look forward to this quiet quarter, but this year seems to have been busier than ever. We were sorely disappointed with the result of Brexit – but we decided to make some bold and positive changes.
read more about Summer 2016 – What We’ve Been Up ToIt’s the game of the Summer: Pokémon Go. After a couple of weeks of heavy ‘testing’ (or more accurately desperately collecting Eevees) I’ve realised that I spend more time on Pokémon Stop than Go. So, why is everyone talking about it?
read more about Pokémon Go or more likely Stop? (When good games stall)Here’s our round-up of the useful UX Design links: July 2016. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. This month features Co. Design, UX Booth, Nielson Norman Group, UIE, Conversion XL and Mind the Product.
read more about UX Design Links & Resources: July 2016 Round-upHere’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: June 2016. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Lean Blogs, Astronomer, David Cummings, First Round and Medium. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Links & Resources: June 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the useful User Research links that we have come across in June 2016. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. Featuring Nielson Norman Group, Andrew Chen and Medium. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links & Resources: June 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the useful UX Design links from June 2016. Great advice from some of the best in the industry. This month features Apptimize, Disambiguity, Nielson Norman Group, Baymard Group and Medium. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Links & Resources: June 2016 Round-upHaving been on the panel since 2013, we’re proud to be sponsoring the infamous UX Scotland Hemma Bar party! Join us for the post-conference social event, on Thursday 9th June 2016. Your choice of the finest drinks, Smorgasbord and fab people.
read more about Join us for a drink at UX Scotland’s social eveningLast month I presented my thoughts on Mobile User Experience (UX) at Mobile Scotland 2016. I shared my 3 golden rules of how to deliver a great mobile user experience: 1. Keep it simple; 2. Be personal and; 3. Knowing when to stop.
read more about Mobile UX – User Adoption, Retention and GrowthIt’s that time again, UX Scotland 2016 is just around the corner. This year it has been extended to 4 awesome days of talks and workshops. As UX Scotland is a must-attend event for us. So we’re absolutely thrilled to sponsor this year.
read more about Our News: UX Scotland 2016 and Border Crossing MediaAs usual we have been hard at it with new staff, office moves, talks and presentations at Digital Transformation and EventIt, and plenty of client work for NHS 24, FutureScot, Edinburgh Designs and RBGE . Here is our round-up of news.
read more about What we’ve been up to (May 2016)Here’s our round-up of the useful Mobile UX Design links: May 2016. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. This month features articles from Google, UIE, Nielson Norman Group, and Apple. Happy reading!
read more about Mobile User Experience (UX) Design Links & Resources: May 2016The latest versions of Transport for Edinburgh’s (TfE) journey planning apps are available to download from the App Store and Google Play. Shameless plugs aside we wanted to share what it’s been like working with Lothian Buses’ team.
read more about Mobile User Experience (UX) for Journey Planning AppsHere’s our round-up of the usefulUser Research links from April 2016. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. This month features The Effective Engineer, UX Matters, and Mike Fishbein. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links & Resources: May 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the best UX strategy resources May 2016. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features insights from Peter Reinhardt, Steve Blank, First Round and Nielsen Norman Group. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Links & Resources: May 2016 Round-upWe were asked to present a Learning Zone session at EventIt 2016. Find out how applying user centred design techniques will improve the experience of your events attendees, exhibitors and sponsors – throughout the event lifecycle.
read more about User Centred Design Matters: User Experience for EventsHere’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from April 2016. This month’s articles and insights from UIE, Conversion XL, Nielson Norman Group, OnStartups and UX Matters. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Links & Resources: April 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the useful User Research links that we have come across in April 2016. Great actionable advice comes this month from User Focus, Nielson Norman Group, Andrew Chen and Baymard Institute. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links & Resources: April 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the best business and UX strategy links and resources April 2016. This month features insights and learning from McKinsey & Company, Sam Altman, Steve Blank and First Round Review. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Links & Resources: April 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the best business and UX strategy links and resources March 2016. This month features insight, articles and learning from Jerry Chen, Google Ventures, Sachin Rekhi and First Round . Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Links & Resources: March 2016 Round-upIn the age of the consumer, it is vital for companies who conduct business online to identify their user’s goals. By pinpointing the key tasks that people want to carry out on your website, you are establishing your ‘Red Routes’ or ‘Top Tasks’.
read more about UX Design Techniques: Red Routing and Top TasksHere’s our round-up of the interesting User Research links that we have come across in March 2016. Great actionable advice and insights from UserFocus, Nielson Norman Group, UX Matters and Baymard Institute. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links & Resources: March 2016 Round-upA persona is a representation of a user. A good persona should be based on interviews with real customers. A persona then has the ability to help design teams empathise with the user and appreciate their frustrations and difficulties.
read more about Using Personas for your Digital TransformationDigital Transformation 2016 was one of those awesome events when a bunch talented people get together and talk. In our breakout session I shared how to understand a problem fully before starting to design the right solution.
read more about Digital Transformation 2016: Transform or Evolve?A storyboard is a method in which to illustrate the interaction between a person and a product. They allow a team to visually map out and specify how a user interacts and reacts to a product whilst considering additional external factors.
read more about UX Design Techniques: Introduction to StoryboardingHere’s our round-up of the best business and UX strategy links and resources January 2016. This month features insights and learning from Folding Burritos, UIE, UX Matters, ShakeUP and Nielson Norman Group. Happy reading!
read more about Business and UX Strategy Links: January 2016 Round-upLiving in the digital age, a restaurant’s website has become the customers first point of contact. So, it is vital that it is user friendly and easy to navigate. The online booking system should be fool proof. But how often are they?
read more about Is your booking process helping or hindering your business?Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from January 2016. This month’s insights from UX Booth, Conversion XL, Nielson Norman Group and the Baymard Institute. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Links & Resources: January 2016 Round-upHere’s our round-up of the interesting User Research links that we have come across in January 2016. Great actionable advice and insights from 3 articles from the Nielson Norman Group, UX Matters and UIE. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links & Resources: January 2016 Round-upMerry Christmas and thank you for an amazing 2015! It has been a busy year for us at Border Crossing Media with some really exciting work, great clients and some really fun events. We wanted to take a moment to thank all of you.
read more about Merry Christmas and Thanks for an Awesome 2015!With only 2 days until the big event we had to share the big man’s persona from our Service Design workshop. With more names than most, and nearly a millennium of spreading goodwill at Christmas, Santa Claus needs to stay on top of his game.
read more about Service Design for SANTA Inc pt. 4 – The Big ManYou may not have heard of our third persona from SANTA Inc. But believe me, without this guy, noone would get their presents on time – if ever! Bernard has a tricky job, keeping his team of over 1,000 elves productive and focused.
read more about Service Design for SANTA Inc pt.3 – Production CrewEnsuring success as the number 1 Christmas provider for nice children year on year requires strength in leadership and a strong head for numbers. Our second interview was with our project sponsor Mrs Claus.
read more about Service Design for SANTA Inc. pt. 2 – COO Mrs ClausHere’s our round-up of the best business and UX strategy links and resources December 2015. This month features insights and learning from Andrew Chen, UserFocus, Percolate Industries, Digital Telepathy and UIE. Happy reading!
read more about Business and UX Strategy Links: December 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from December 2015. This month’s articles and insights from A List Apart, Nielson Norman Group, Google Ventures and UX Booth. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Links & Resources: December 2015This autumn we were commissioned by a family company run out of the North Pole. Whilst they have been delivering Christmas cheer for centuries they were concerned by the wave of internet disruption to their traditional business model.
read more about Service design for SANTA Inc. – Rudolf from LogisticsThe Business Gateway wanted to identify how they could deliver the most relevant products, services and support to micro-businesses in Edinburgh. We helped them map and design better services for these key Clients.
read more about Service Design for the Business Gateway EdinburghIts been really hectic here at Border Crossing Media. From exciting new projects to last-minute presentations, we’ve been up to a strange mix of things over the past few months. So, here’s an overview of what we’ve been working on.
read more about Our work: What we’ve been up to November 2015Here’s our round-up of the interesting User Research links that we have come across in November 2015. Great actionable advice and insights from the best including UX Matters, UserFocus, Uber, 24 ways and Wharton. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links and Resources: November 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from August 2015. This month’s articles and insights from Thought works, Nielson Norman Group, Google Ventures and UX Matters. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Links and Resources: August 2015Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: August 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features OnStartups, FirstRound, Smart Bear, UX Matters and Andrew Chen. Happy reading!
read more about UX Strategy Links and Resources: August 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful User Research links that we have come across in August 2015. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. Featuring Nielson Norman Group, Google Ventures and UIE. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links and Resources: August 2015Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: July 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features OnStartups, Steve Blank, Medium, UX Matters and Andrew Chen. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Links and Resources: July 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from July 2015. This month’s articles and insights from Thought works, Nielson Norman Group, Google Ventures, UIE and UX Matters. Happy reading!
read more about User Experience Design Links and Resources: July 2015The world of FinTech is exploding. Here in the UK we are right at the epicentre of a revolution in financial services. But what can SME’s learn from the successes and failures of Fintech companies? Should you disrupt your own sector?
read more about 3 Things SMEs can learn from FinTech CompaniesHere’s our round-up of the useful User Research links that we have come across in July 2015. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. Featuring UX Booth, Folding Burritos, UserFocus and Google Ventures. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links & Resources: July 2015 Round-upFrançois was at UX Scotland 2015 a few weeks ago with the great and good from UX across Scotland. With a full programme of brilliant key note speakers, tutorials and workshops here is his round-up of this year’s event.
read more about UX Scotland 2015: talks, tutorials and workshopsHere’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: May 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Steve Blank, A Smart Bear, Strategyzer and For Entrepreneurs. Happy reading!
read more about Business and UX Strategy Links and Resouces: May 2015Last week I was fortunate to be part of something new. Something I hope to be big, something I know will change our world: The long term care revolution. And now I’m going to challenge you to become part of that too.
read more about Long term care revolution – ready for the challenge?In an ideal world we’d all like to launch a beautiful, complete and bug-free product, on-time to a captive audience of prospective customers. But the truth is you’re more likely to launch a buggy product or service late to your pals.
read more about A beginner’s guide to pre-launch landing pagesHere’s our round-up of the useful User Research links that we have come across in May 2015. Great actionable advice from some of the best in the industry. Featuring UX Booth, Baymard Institute and Medium. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Links and Resources: May 2015Over the years I’ve come across and contributed to a diverse range of start-up launch plans. A key ingredient of the successful start-up launches I’ve observed has been a willingness to invest time and thought into an objective-driven plan.
read more about How to develop a pre-launch plan for your start-upHere’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from May 2015. This month’s articles and insights from Thought works, Nielson Norman Group, UX Check, UX Matters and Learn by Shipping. Happy reading!
read more about User Experience Design Links and Resources: May 2015Building effective websites can be tricky. Getting an awesome website that does what you want, fulfils your user’s needs and looks great can be like tightrope walking. So how do you know how to balance on the rope? It’s all in the planning.
read more about Planning an effective website – where should you start?Why are so many start-ups not willing to pre-launch their businesses? When lean start-up or minimum viable product are becoming such well known terms. As UX consultants we collaborate start-ups to pre-launch their business, not their product.
read more about Why you should pre-launch your start-up (not your product)Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is a process used to increase the percentage of visitors that complete a specific task or action. Generally this relates to financial or data transactions but what that task or action is, doesn’t really matter.
read more about Conversion rate optimisation: process mattersA formal or informal expert usability review is a common starting point for most of our projects. Oddly enough it’s also one of the only methods in user centred design that doesn’t directly involve people who will use the product or service.
read more about Expert usability reviews: when (and when not) to use themOver the last 12 months we’ve noticed a substantial spike in the demand for our services. This indicates that there’s increasing buy-in from senior decision makers. Which isn’t surprising given the increasing prominence of user experience (or UX).
read more about The rise of user experience: is a little knowledge a dangerous thing?Apple have a track record of going against the grain. But what’s interesting is that they’ve always been willing to take business risks. Not just with their hardware and software but the customer experience they deliver.
read more about The Apple customer experience: a story of innovation and iterationDespite the changing ways in which we receive and consume content, one thing that has remained a constant in a professional context, is email. In fact email marketing is still one of the most effective methods for reaching, converting and establishing a long-term relationship with your customers.
read more about Email marketing: how to build your email databaseAre you heading along to UX Scotland 2015? Held in Edinburgh this conference is aimed at those with an interest in UX, service design and product development. This year’s conference is scheduled for the 11-12th of June with the pre-conference workshop happening on the 10th.
read more about UX Scotland 2015: Are you going along?Customer mapping or customer journey mapping is key to delivering an excellent customer experience, whether you operate online or not. It allows you to identify what your customers need, desire and feel when they interact with your company.
read more about Customer mapping: the basicsHere’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: April 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Steve Blank, Andrew Chen and MIT Technology Review. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Links & Resources: April 2015Want to know what people really want from new FinTech products and services? Well so did we so we went along to the first Techstars FinTech Speaker Series powered by Datamonitor Financial to discover: What Consumers want.
read more about FinTech insights: What Consumers WantHere’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from April 2015. This month’s articles and insights from Cone Tree, Nielson Norman Group, PDF, Yiibu and ReadyMag. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Resources & Links: April 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Research resources and links from April 2015. This month’s articles and insights from Thought works, Nielson Norman Group, GOV.UK and Google Ventures. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Resources & Links: April 2015Making the right impression first time whether online and offline is the best way to drive sales. The way that customers now interact with retail companies using both online and offline touch points mean it is vital to ensure you have a consistent experience.
read more about Is your online business helping or hindering your offline business?Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: April 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Wired Magazine, Intercom, Angel VC and Onstartups. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Resouces & Links: April 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from March 2015. This month’s articles and insights from Smashing Magazine, UIE, Crisp’s Blog, Nielson Norman Group and Accessibility Project. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Resources & Links: March 2015Here’s our round-up of the interesting User Research links that we have come across in March 2015. Great actionable advice and insights from the best including GOV.UK, Fortune and the Baymard Institute. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Resources & Links: March 2015Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: March 2015 #2. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Andrew Chen, A Smart Bear, Medium, Intercom and Steve Blank Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Resources & Links: March 2015 #2Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: March 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Dan McKinley, Inside Intercom, UIE, The Effective Engineer and Nielson Norman Group. Happy reading!
read more about Business & UX Strategy Resources & Links: March 2015Here’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from February 2015. This month’s articles and insights from UIE, Baymard Institute, Neilson Norman Group, UX Booth and Medium. Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Resources & Links: February 2015Here’s our round-up of the interesting User Research links that we have come across in February 2015. Great actionable advice and insights from the best including Mozilla UX, Laura Klein, GOV.UK and User Focus. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Resources & Links: February 2015Now in it’s third year, UX Scotland 2015 will be held at Dynamic Earth (Edinburgh) on the 11th-12th June. If you’ve been before, you know what you’re getting, so grab your early-bird ticket before the 27th of February. But why not answer their call for speakers too?
read more about UX Scotland 2015: Early-bird Tickets & Call for SpeakersLast week we delivered an introduction to user research and user experience for an incredibly talented and committed bunch of entrepreneurs from UP Techmedia Accelerator. Based at the Creative Exchange Leith, the remit was to make UX inspiring.
read more about User Experience Talk for Up Techmedia AcceleratorHere’s our round-up of the useful and interesting User Experience (UX) Design links from January 2015. This month’s articles and insights from UX Matters, Neilson Norman Group, UIE, Usability Net, UXmas and Peterme . Happy reading!
read more about UX Design Resources & Links: January 2015Here’s our round up of the best business and UX strategy links: January 2015. Get insights from other people’s successes and failures. This month features Google Ventures, Steve Blank, GOV.UK, SaaStr and Nielson Norman Group. Happy reading!
read more about Business and UX Strategy Resources: January 2015Here’s our round-up of the interesting User Research links that we have come across over the festive period. Great actionable advice and insights from the best including Biz Community, Baymard Institute and GOV.UK. Happy reading!
read more about User Research Resources & Links: January 2015What a year 2014 has been! We’d like to thank all of our clients, friends and family for helping us have such a momentous year.
read more about Merry Christmas And Happy 2015Here’s our round-up of the latest user experience design resources we’ve come across in December 2014.
read more about UX Design Roundup: Dec 2014Here’s our round-up of the best business and UX strategy we’ve come across in December 2014.
read more about Business & Strategy Links: Dec 2014Here’s our round-up of the user research and customer development resources we’ve come across in December 2014.
read more about User Research Roundup: Dec 2014Here’s our round-up of the UX design resources we’ve come across in November 2014.
read more about UX Design Roundup: Nov 2014Here’s our round-up of the best business and user experience strategy resources we’ve come across in November 2014.
read more about Business & Strategy Links: Nov 2014Here’s our round-up of the user research resources we’ve come across in November 2014.
read more about User Research Roundup: Nov 2014Our article, The importance of User Experience, for Business Comment Magazine has generated a lot of positive feedback.
read more about The Importance of User ExperienceA significant security issue has been found within the code of most Drupal 7 installations and a patch has now been issued for versions below 7.32.
read more about Are you running Drupal 7.32 or lower?Here’s a round-up of the valuable user research and user experience design resources we’ve bookmarked this week, October 27 – 31 (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: October 27 – 31, 2014Here’s a round-up of the valuable user research and user experience design resources we’ve bookmarked this week, October 20 – 24 (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: October 20 – 24, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – October 13th – 17th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: October 13 – 17, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 22nd – 26th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: September 22 – 26, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 15th – 19th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: September 15 – 19, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 8th – 12th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: September 8 – 12, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 1st – 5th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: September 1 – 5, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 18th – 22nd (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: August 18 – 22, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 11th – 15th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: August 11 – 15, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 4th – 8th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: August 4 – 8, 2014Remember the old adage: “Never work with animals or children”? Well here’s a high-level overview of how to successfully conduct user research and testing with children.
read more about User Research and Testing with ChildrenHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 21st – 25th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: July 21- 25, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 14th – 18th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: July 14 – 18, 2014This year at UX Scotland 2014 I had the pleasure of collaborating on UX for Gamer Acquisition, Retention & Conversion with Claudio Pires Franco.
read more about UX Gamer Acquisition, Retention and ConversionHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 7th – 11th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: July 7 – 11, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 30th – July 4th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: June 30 – July 4, 2014Here’s a round-up of the local events we’d love to attend over the coming month. We’ve also included UXPA London 2014 as if you can this really is a must-attend event.
read more about Events in JulyUX Scotland was back in Edinburgh and it was every bit as good as last year. It was great to run into familiar faces and make new friends – I’m always blown away by how warm and welcoming our small community is.
read more about Thanks to all for UX Scotland 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 23rd – 27th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: June 23 -27, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 15th – 20th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: June 15 – 20, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 9th – 13th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: June 9 – 13, 2014UX Scotland 2014 kicks off in a couple of weeks with a series of workshops which will be followed by the 2 day conference. Last year’s conference was a great experience; much was learnt and many friends were made.
read more about UX Scotland is just around the cornerThe Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce have confirmed that our next Plan to Succeed: Learn How to Improve Your Website training course, will be held on Monday 23rd of June.
read more about Learn How To Improve Your WebsiteHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 2nd – 6th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: June 2 – 6, 2014Following the final session of UX Scotland 2013 I was confronted with two hungry speakers, Andrew Zusman and Avi Itzkovich, who were searching for the best fish and chips they could find.
read more about It all started with fish and chipsJune is going to be a busy month as it’s rammed full of events we’d love to attend. We won’t be attending them all but we’ll certainly be at UX Scotland 2014 so if you’re heading to that do let us know!
read more about Events in JuneHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 26th – May 30th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 26 – 30, 2014UX Scotland 2014 announced their call for speakers a few months ago. Even though things have been incredibly hectic of late we knew we had to make the time to get something together for this year’s conference.
read more about UX Scotland Here We ComeHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 19th – 23rd (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 19 – 23, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 12th – 16th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 12 – 16, 2014Up until recently it was considered a search engine optimisation (SEO) best practice to optimise the anchor text (the specific text used to create a link) in use on your web pages and blog posts by including keywords you wish to rank for.
read more about SEO & Anchor Links: Updated AdviceHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 5th – 8th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 5 – 8, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – April 28th – May 2nd (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: 28 April – 2 May, 2014Here’s a couple of local events we’d like to attend over the coming weeks. Check out the descriptions to learn more and follow the links provided to reserve your tickets.
read more about Events in MayHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 21st – 25th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: March 21 – 25, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – April 7th – 11th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: April 7 – 11, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 31sr – April 4th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: 31 March – 4 April, 2014The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce delivers a broad range of training courses and services aimed at SME’s. They recently announced that they were looking to develop some new training and development courses.
read more about UX Training: Border Crossing Media teams up with Edinburgh Chamber of CommerceHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 24th – 28th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: March 24 – 28, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 17th – 21st (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: March 17 – 21, 2014Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 10th – 14th (2014).
read more about Our Bookmarks: March 10 -14, 2014Merry Christmas!!! After a busy year at Border Crossing Media we hope that you are looking forward to the break as much as we are. Our opening hours for the festive period are:
read more about Festive Opening HoursLast Monday we were lucky to have a delegation from China visit the Creative Exchange which included representatives from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce.
read more about Zhong Guan Cun DCIA visit to the Creative ExchangeWe’ve been busy bees here at Border Crossing Media moving to our new office, building a responsive design website for ourselves and much, much more….
read more about The Creative Exchange, Responsive Design & moreIt’s supposed to be the first week of spring and whilst the temperature is still dancing around zero degrees the conference and networking season is starting to warm-up.
read more about Our Spring Events Top Picks‘The Joy of UX’ is a Drum Magazine Special Report that was published last month. The guide features the UK’s leading practitioners, including our own François Roshdy.
read more about The Joy of UX – A Drum Magazine SpecialWe’ve just launched Party Bees new branding, packaging and ecommerce store. This full-service project has overhauled every touch point customer’s have with the company.
read more about Party Bees new brand and website launchedToday everyone takes for granted the saying ‘time is money’ but in business it is more true than ever. One of the biggest challenges for SMEs is to make sure that they run an efficient and cost-effective set-up.
read more about SMEs can save time and money by using mentoring servicesWith less than 24 hours until the grace period ends for websites to comply with the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications regulations, the ICO held a press briefing to communicate updates to the guidance.
read more about Update to the ICO’s guidance on the rules on use of cookiesWith only 5 days to go to the grace period ends for complying with the updated EU Privacy and Electronic Communication Directive, here is our latest blog post on how to comply.
read more about Assessing the invasiveness of your cookiesOn the 11th of May 2012 the Scottish Governments’ consultation on the proposed independence referendum closed. There has been a lot of debate over the proposed question. So we thought we’d look at what makes the perfect question.
read more about Writing the perfect Scottish referendum questionThere are 12 days to go until the grace period for the revision to the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communication Directive expires.
read more about 12 days to go to cookie complianceLast week was Scotland’s leading conference for the digital, creative and cultural sectors, organised by Interactive Scotland & AmbITion Scotland.
read more about Digital 2012Whilst undertaking a cookie audit of our website, a requirement of the new EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, I was reminded of one of my kids favourite stories.
read more about We’re going on a cookie huntOn January 24th Google revealed some major updates to their privacy policy. There has been a mixed response to the changes that were announced on Google’s Official Blog.
read more about Google announces new privacy policyThe Nielsen Norman Group are bringing their usability week back to Edinburgh. From the 19th – 23rd of March 2012, they will be running 18 full-day tutorials. Sadly this means you can’t attend all of them.
read more about The Nielsen Norman Group is coming to EdinburghYou have installed and configured your Symfony2 project, added the Entity classes, prepared everything for persisting them into a database and, bam, you end up with the following error message
read more about Resolve a path error in Symfony2 when using MAMP under OSX LionUser Interface 16, the User Experience and Design Conference developed by the amazing team at User Interface Engineering, was held in Boston, MA (USA) back in November 2011.
read more about Get the best of UI16 OnDemandA sitemap is a visual representation of a website or application’s structure. It should clearly communicate how all the information is organised.If you are commissioning a new website or a redesign then you should include one in your brief.
read more about Why create a sitemap when planning a new website?In the past month three different website administrators have asked us whether or not they should remove the ability to leave a comment on their blog posts.
read more about How to manage comments and reduce spamBusinesses often throw themselves into web design or web development projects. It may take a while for it to happen but once a project is green-lit there’s normally a mad scramble to compile requirements, source quotes and kick-off the project as quickly as possible.
read more about How to plan a successful website or redesignWe’ve all known for a long time that snappy page load times are key to a positive user experience. Google understands this more than most due to their extensive testing of how much “speed matters”.
read more about Do page load times matter and how to improve them?Tagging your marketing campaigns can help you measure their return on investment. Given how easy it is to do this for your online campaigns there’s no excuse not to apply these techniques to your offline campaigns too.
read more about Beginner’s guide to tracking a marketing campaignOn Saturday 15th of October direct messages were sent out from unsuspecting accounts due to a Twitter hacking virus. We took these steps to protect our accounts.
read more about Help for Twitter Direct Message Hacking VirusUser Interface 16 is a user experience and design conference. This year’s conference will run from November 7th – 9th 2011 in Boston (MA, USA). Check out this year’s agenda and list of speakers.
read more about 24 hours left to get free User Interface 15 resourcesBack in January some interesting data on the the technical purchasing decisions of YCombinator startups was released. The data shared was a showcase for a simple but incredibly useful tool called domain profiler.
read more about Gain insights by profiling your competitors domainsSince its release in September 2008 Google Chrome has been the browser of choice for the majority of our team. In fact I’m the only one who doesn’t use it as their default browser.
read more about Google Chrome: is it really the browser for me?The clever folks at Etre are putting on a series of workshops in London, October 3rd – 5th. Their aim is to help people “learn everything there is to know about user experience from the people who wrote the books on it”.
read more about Are you attending Etre 2011?We recently decided to rethink how we host this website. Since 2008 we’ve used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host our live and development websites as well as all of our other tools and software.
read more about Moving off of Amazon Web ServicesThe founder of Cuba Casa, knew how hard it was to book casa (hostel) accommodation in Cuba online. He wanted to change this and make booking a casa in Cuba a simple and painless experience.
read more about Our work for Cuba CasaWorried about your Google Analytics data being skewed by your staff’s usage of your own website? If so, set-up a custom filter to exclude those IP addresses.
read more about Exclude specific IP’s from Google Anlaytics reportsCommissioning and producing high-quality images that really sell a product online isn’t as simple as it sounds. Forget the subjective arguments over what makes a truly great product shot it’s the cost and logistics that’s a killer.
read more about Producing images for an ecommerce storeWhilst doing a website review I was pretty surprised to see that the old Google Analytics tracking code was still being used.
read more about Which Google Analytics tracking code are you using?Organisations that operate online should be well aware of the revision to the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communication Directive.
read more about EU directives, cookies & the issues of a grace periodWe recently received our notification that important changes were happening to Google Apps. This means our Google Apps accounts are being transitioned to Google Account infrastructure.
read more about Google Apps our transition experienceWhen we started out in 2006 we were focused on building cheap and cheerful products. We had a few in the works so we needed a core identity that could be spun out for a number of stand-alone products like Border Crossing TV.
read more about Why we decided it was time for a rebrandProducing the content required for our recent redesign has reaffirmed a simple rule – content will always take longer then you think to produce.
read more about Getting website content ready for a release dateOver the past couple of months we’ve been focusing on finalising our new identity. This has involved a rebrand, a redesign, and an upgrade of our content management system.
read more about Welcome to the new look Border Crossing Media!This is an accessible and engaging overview of user experience design and the benefits it provides. This video focuses on the importance of defining the value your work can deliver.
read more about Must watch: The ROI of user experience designUnderstanding the way in which your Customers or users interact with your website is vital. If a user has an average or negative experience when using your website it can have serious implications for your business.
read more about User experience matters: 3 tips that will improve yoursLast night I attended the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce event: ‘An Audience with Dr Vince Cable MP’ at the George Hotel.
read more about An audience with Dr Vince Cable MPOrganised by Mairi Robertson of Interactive Scotland, Digital 2011 was held at the SECC in Glasgow. Hopefully this will be the first of many.
read more about Watch the videos from Digital 2011Roots Design Workshop is a professional Architectural and Environmental design practice that provides services to isolated and remote communities.
read more about A new website for Roots Design Workshopufferfish Displays produce eye-catching spherical displays and content for clients such as Disney, Coldplay and Eurovision. When you see one of their products – you’re guaranteed to stop and stare.
read more about A new website for Pufferfish Displays Ltdhe Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (CMEP) is part of the prestigious Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE). A world leading authority on the Middle Eastern environment, they work with local partners to develop sustainable and pragmatic projects.
read more about A new website for the Centre of Middle Eastern PlantsIn a previous post, What is getting tacked on to your brief?, I outlined some of the problems we are increasingly coming across in the briefs we receive. This is a universal problem that doesn’t just affect us.
read more about Why we always ask questions at the start of a project?When I first joined Border Crossing Media I spent quite a lot of time familiarising myself with the way that Google and other search engines operate.
read more about How Google works, a fantastic infographicThis is a question we are often asked by prospective clients. Normally a quick conversation is enough to convey its importance and the fundamental role it plays in the design and technical projects we undertake.
read more about Do we really need the user research & usability testing?Judging by our website you wouldn’t know it but we’ve been flat out over the last couple of months. We’ve had babies, deployed several websites and undertaken more consultancy work than we’ve done since starting out in 2006.
read more about Kids, work & websitesIf you’re planning or developing an iPad or iPhone application then you need to check out the iOS Reference Library.
read more about Planning or developing an App?As this year draws to a close we’d like to wish all of our customers, collaborators and friends all the best for 2011. We’ll be taking the Monday and Tuesday off but come the 5th of January we’ll be back up and running.
read more about Happy 2011 from Border Crossing MediaWe’ve been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2007 and are very happy customers – even this website runs on a small reserved instance.
read more about Amazon Web Services you continue to delightGoogle have updated their SEO starter guide. We always recommend that clients familiarise themselves with this document as it provides a comprehensive and perhaps more importantly free overview of how best to approach search engine optimisation (SEO) from Google itself.
read more about Google releases updated SEO starter guideI’ve started to notice a recurring trend in the briefs and request for proposals we receive. Every one we’ve reviewed of late has one line in it that is totally out of sync with the rest of the document’s content.
read more about What’s getting tacked on to your web development brief?We do our best not to use jargon when communicating with clients. That said, we do use the terms alpha, beta and official release. These terms are useful because they help everyone understand where we are with a technical development project.
read more about Alpha, beta & official releases: What’s the difference?We recently decided to develop a fast, flexible and modern framework for building websites and applications that has a CMS module built-in to the core.
read more about Our content management framework has arrivedI recently currently signed up to the HubSpot Inbound Marketing University. Today’s lecture was given by Lee Odden from TopRank Online Marketing and was a SEO Crash Course to Get Found (GF102).
read more about Why SEO is a core component of a modern marketing planHere at Border Crossing Media we always try something before we recommend it. This month I have signed myself up for the HubSpot Inbound Marketing University.
read more about 3 best practices for bloggingWhen I joined Border Crossing Media last year Frank and I discussed setting up a personal website/blogging platform. There were several reasons for creating one such as building a nice portfolio piece for the company, creating additional link juice for our site, improving my online profile and giving me an additional channel to share my views on dolphins.
read more about Review: Online profile hubs – which do you prefer?I’ve recently completed testing more efficient ways to share our bookmarks. Previously we shared links internally and with clients by writing a weekly round-up post on our blog.
read more about Sharing Bookmarks: A better wayWordPress 3.0 has been released and is available to download. Tip: sign-up for the mailing list to receive notifications whenever a new stable release is made available.
read more about WordPress 3.0 has been releasedHere are 3 things that I’ve introduced since joining Border Crossing Media. You’d most likely see them in a large organisation but they’ve certainly helped us grow as a company:
read more about 3 things that made us betterWe always prefer to work with a design team throughout a project but when this isn’t possible we’ll provide as much help as we can. More often than not this entails providing guidelines and prototypes that showcase potential improvements.
read more about Our approach to collaborating on a designI am going to start this post with a simple assumption – you have a business plan.
As part of your plan you may have noted that you need to develop a presence online.
read more about Determine your online strategyNow first off I want to state that I have learnt this the hard way. There was no epiphany this is just something I’ve learnt by being burnt.
read more about Defining the scope of a projectVoC’ or ‘Voice of the Customer’ reports are becoming an increasingly popular topic. But what is a VoC report and do you really need one?
read more about What the VoC?Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – February 1st – 7th (2010).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Feb 1 – Feb 7, 2010This article has to be shared and promoted. Written by the always inspiring Eric Reiss of The FatDUX Group, this is a must read if you are commissioning or project managing the development of a website.
read more about Must Read: The 10 do’s & dont’s of web developmentHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – January 25th – 31st (2010).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jan 25 – Jan 31, 2010Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – January 18th – 24th (2010).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jan 18 – Jan 24, 2010Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – January 11th – 17th (2010).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jan 11 – Jan 17, 2010Johanna Basford’s latest Twitter Picture project has just gone live. Over a 24 hour period (9 AM Thursday 14th – 9AM Friday 15th) Johanna will be creating a hand-drawn interactive illustration inspired by Twitter.
read more about Twitter Picture goes liveHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – January 4th – 10th (2010).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jan 4 – Jan 10, 2010Google Labs recently released a new tool called Browser Size which provides a visualisation of what a user is likely to see given the screen size of their browser when they visit your website.
read more about Browser Size: A new tool from Google LabsHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – December 28th – January 3rd (2009/10).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Dec 28 – Jan 3, 2009/10As this year draws to a close I’d like to wish all of our customers, collaborators, friends and family all the best for 2010.
read more about Happy 2010 from Border Crossing MediaHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – December 21st – 27th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Dec 21 – Dec 27, 2009First off, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. Our office hours over the festive period are:
read more about Our opening hours over the festive periodHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – December 14 h- 20th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Dec 14 – Dec 20, 2009Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that CloudFront now supports Flash streaming (RTMP) in addition to progressive downloads (HTTP). Live streaming is also expected to be rolled out at some point in 2010.
read more about AWS CloudFront now does true video streamingHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – December 7th – 13th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Dec 7 – Dec 13, 2009The Amazon Web Services Economics Centre provides access to clear information and easy to use tools and resources that will help you to compare the cost of using Amazon Web Services (AWS) with alternative IT infrastructure.
read more about AWS Economics Centre releases new cost comparison calculatorHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – November 30th – December 6th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – November 23rd – 29th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 23 – Nov 29, 2009Amazon Web Service’s Flexible Payments Service (FPS) allows you to accept payments on your website. It supports the processing of payments using credit cards, bank accounts and Amazon Payments account balances.
read more about Will Amazon Flexible Payments ever reach Europe?Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – November 16th – 22nd (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 16 – Nov 22, 2009The truth is some hosting providers are great, and some are downright awful. We primarily use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our hosting.
read more about Are you getting value for money from your hosting provider?Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – November 7th – 15th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 7 – Nov 15, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – November 2nd – 6th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 2 – Nov 6, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – October 26th – November 1st (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2009Way back in 2008 we were battling away with a custom install of FFmpeg on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are really pedantic about video encoding so we had a long list of requirements.
read more about Review: Ankoder’s video transcoding serviceHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – October 19th – 25th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – October 12th – 18th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – October 5th – 11th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2009We are using Codepress for the administrator application within our custom CMS.
read more about How to fix Codepress not posting text entered into text areaHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 28th – October 4th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 21st – 27th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 14th – 20th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – September 7th – 13th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Sep 7 – Sep 13, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 31st – September 6th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 24th – 30th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 17th – 23rd (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 10th – 16th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – August 3rd – 9th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Aug 03 – Aug 09, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 27th – August 2nd (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jul 27 – Aug 02, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 20th – 26th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 13th – 19th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – July 6th – 12th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jul 06 – Jul 12, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 29th – July 5th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jun 29 – Jul 05, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 22nd – 28th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 15th – 21st (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 8th – 14th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jun 08 – Jun 14, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 1st – 7th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Jun 01 – Jun 07, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 25th – 31st (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 25 – May 31, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 18th – 24th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 18 – May 24, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 11th – 17th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 11 – May 17, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – May 4th – 10th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: May 04 – May 10, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – April 27th – March 3rd (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 27 – May 03, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – April 20th – 26th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2009After much research and testing we have settled on two approaches for delivering video content from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Each approach uses a different delivery protocol.
read more about Deliver online video using Amazon Web ServicesHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – April 13th – 19th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2009Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Reserved Instances for Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) are now available in Europe.
read more about Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Reserved Instances now available in EuropeHere’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – April 6th – 12th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 06 – Apr 12, 2009Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 30th – April 5th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Mar 30 – Apr 05, 2009For those of you who haven’t come across one of these yet, these posts are just links, there’s no explanatory or summary text. Although I sometimes think adding some would be beneficial I’ve stuck to simply calling out the sources we value.
read more about Why all the news round-up posts?Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – March 23rd – 29th (2009).
read more about Our Bookmarks: Mar 23 – Mar 29, 2009
