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…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…