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How to align stakeholders without another bloody meeting
Meetings, the Modern Scourge You’ve just had 3 back to back meetings and while it’s nice to hear how the weather is in another part of the world you are nowhere nearer

How to write design brief (so you don’t waste 3 weeks)
The cost of a bad design brief It’s been three weeks since you enthusiastically spoke to your design team. That joyous first moment of anticipation and potential has been snuffed out by

The Future of Fintech UX & Design
Evolve or get left behind with your fintech UX. Fintech is on fire, from mobile banking apps to AI-powered investment platforms, financial technology has never been more advanced, or more competitive. But

What EV Car Companies Can Learn from Fintech UX
The EV industry is buzzing with innovation—longer ranges, fast(er) charging, and semi-autonomous driving are all the rage. But here’s the real question: is anyone really thinking about the user? While the competition

Designing for Scalability: How UX Evolves with Product Growth
So, your tech product’s taking off like a rocket, and you’re riding that sweet wave of success. But hold up—before you get too comfy, let’s chat about scaling your UX design. Because

5 Fintech trends to watch out for in 2024
Step into the realm of fintech in 2024, where we sift through the buzzwords and jargon to decode what the upcoming year might bring. This article delves into the prevailing fintech trends

What makes a great UX designer?
What sets apart a good UX designer from a truly exceptional one? Beyond pixels and wireframes, great UX designers harness an uncanny power – the ability to connect with a business’ audience,

Improving UX Design in Banking: Strategies for Catching Up with the Competition
Improving UX Design in Banking is no mean feat. Fintech companies are increasingly setting the bar high for intuitive and frictionless design. In contrast, traditional banks are struggling to keep pace. In

Why Touch Screens Aren’t Always the Best Choice: A Closer Look at the UX of Touch Screens vs. Real Buttons
Are touch screens really the answer for all modern electronic devices? As a UX agency, we’ve seen a growing trend of touch screens being used in all sorts of devices, from ovens

The Horror Show That is Your Website: Time for a UX Heuristic Evaluation!
Ah, the age-old question that has plagued businesses for centuries: how do I make my website actually usable for humans and some of my more demanding clients? Fear not, my friends, for

7 Feng Shui-Proof Steps to Choose The Right UX Design Agency
What do Feng Shui and UX have in common? Surprisingly, they are multi-generational long lost distant cousins. While many think UX is a fairly recent field, it has existed for over 3,000

Avoid these fintech UX mistakes
I thought it would be a good idea to start the year off on a negative note. There have been a ton of negative things that have happened over the past few

Fintech apps: how to resolve the most common problems
Fintech apps have become an increasingly popular way for people to manage their finances, pay bills, make investments, and more. These apps offer convenience and accessibility, making it easier for people to

What are super apps and will they take over?
Just when you think you’ve got things figured out, like how apps should be super specific and do one job very well, something comes along and does a giant poo on that

6 fintech UX design tips to keep ahead of the game
Gone are the days when UX/UI designers ran for the door when their firms announced projects with financial institutions. While the financial sector was known to be a dinosaur when it came

How to spot & hire amazing fintech developers
Hiring a bad fintech developer is like dating someone who appears amazing and then the moment you decide to commit they become an abusive alcoholic, put on 20kg and start treating you

Building a Brand? Read This Before Contracting a Branding Agency
How to avoid the boasters, the ‘yes-men’, the fake case studies, and the click-baiters…and instead find the deeper thinkers, the probers, and those who execute on ideas… Okay, this title may be

How Savvy Fintech Brands Make KYC Onboarding Feel Like A Perfect First Date
It’s old news, the traditional banking sector is outdated and getting crushed by a surge of fintechs providing customers with a wider and personalised product offering. The current pandemic fuelled bank digitalisation

What’s Wrong with the Atomic Design System?
Atomic Design is a way of organising a design system from small components to large components. These components are referred to as atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, and pages. They all work together

How to Grow a Renewable Energy Company’s Audience
…without spamming LinkedIn or ‘networking’ to the point where it becomes creepy… Growing an audience is the most important, yet most difficult, part of growing a brand – especially when it comes

The Beauties and the Beasts of Financial Branding
The financial services industry has been undergoing a slow and painful transformation in the last 20 years. A new generation of fintech brands have lit a fire under traditional banks’ arses not

Six Branding Mistakes That Could Send Your Company to the Grave
Branding mistakes are deadly sins. Yet, they are often avoidable. Here’s how to avoid a grisly branding fate this Halloween. When it comes to the corporate world, bad branding can be a

How to improve design client relationships
Want to avoid soul crushing endless changes to your work? This post will tell you how to improve design client relationships and decrease the amount of rounds of amends and changes. Understand

Brand Workshops for Good: Bridge Studio in Kenya
Bridge Studio Creative Director James Eccleston’s trip to Kenya over the summer preluded the launch of an exciting new collaboration with Viajes Tumaini… Bridge Studio’s brand workshops provide businesses with the opportunity

A word paints a thousand pictures: Why messaging is vital in branding
‘Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic’. The often-forgotten importance of effective business communication. ‘Why are you quoting the Harry Potter books?’. ‘Have these people

What You Can Learn about Brand Personality from Boris Johnson’s Hair
In the summer of 2019, the BBC released a YouTube video entitled ‘Boris Johnson: The Boy Who Wanted to be World King’. Reaching the pinnacle of British politics has taken him as

Workshop: How we resolved an NGOs biggest problems
A couple of months ago we were contacted by the Spanish NGO, Tumaini, asking us for help in resolving some of the problems they had. Tumaini is an NGO that helps projects

Genuine brand messaging in an uncertain time
Today while deleting a deluge of impersonal copy and paste marketing e-mails asking me to ‘stay safe’, (like they give a hoot) the doorbell suddenly rang. A young man on the intercom

What rugby taught me about business and design
Apart from fighting obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental wellbeing and lowering cholesterol, what exactly is playing rugby good for? The lessons at school that have best served me have come not

How walking can unlock your creativity
Is your creative brain stuck? Have you ever sat down at your desk to resolve a creative problem and then your brain decides it has no interest in doing what you tell

How to improve your focus
Do you remember that guy who got caught doing that thing to that wolf and the best thing was… oh wait a moment I just got a message… oh yeah, the

Logo design process
Usually when designing a logo it will be in the wider context of the brand. The logo is just one part of how the brand communicates. Having said that, depending on the