Open Source, chatbots, DesignOps and the World Cup (again)
In between football matches and substitutions, we’ve managed to read up on open source, chatbots, and the new wonder of ‘DesignOps’.
Making things better with Pride in London
Over the last 7 months, we’ve worked closely with Pride in London to design and develop their brand new app for this year’s Pride in London Festival. Since last Thursday the app is live and available for download on iOS and Android.
Red Badger in the News: UX and Design Edition
Our UXD team are constantly hitting headlines, sharing their knowledge on all things design.
Designers coding, self service and the World Cup
Brexit, the World Cup, data breaches and Trump. It’s been a busy news week and so we’ve cut through the headlines and rounded up some interesting articles outside of the daily grind.
Red Badger in the News: Delivery Edition
Our delivery team work hard to tackle problems and work through issues with practical solutions, and sometimes they share their successes and learnings with the press.
Better decisions, better products: Roadmap product conference summary
Roadmap product conference rolled in to London 5th June. Here’s my take on what I heard.
The power of words - name the thing and it becomes less scary
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.
Artificial Intelligence, the Tech Industry, and GitHub Grief
Here’s our weekly round-up of news to distract you from the fact that we haven’t had a bank holiday this week and won’t for another 79 days. Not that we’re counting.
Red Badger in the News: Women in Tech Edition
At Red Badger we pride ourselves on championing women in tech and women in business. With a 50-50 gender split on the Red Badger leadership team, we believe in the power of women in the workplace, and aren’t afraid to shout about it too.
Red Badger’s new Insights team: better decisions, better products
Red Badger has set up a new Insights team. I’ll be working with new and existing clients to bring data to the heart of decision making. From strategy to optimisation and personalisation, understanding the data allows our clients to make better decisions and build better products
The Weekly Sett: Silver Surfers, Media Innovation, Robot Suitcases, Retail Tech and Pet Fit Club
With the bank holiday behind us and the wet weather upon us, kick back and see what we’ve been reading this past week.
A briefing on the tech landscape by Red Badger
Each year we get together as a team of developers and testers to take a look at what’s happening in tech and how it’s implemented. We examine what we’ve been using, what others are using, and what’s on the horizon.
Find out what tech we’ve chosen for this year’s Tech Round Table.
The Weekly Sett: The future IT department, GDPR, banking, and Dr. AI
This week we’ve been reading about the future of tech jobs, GDPR (sorry, sorry), and sharing some hilarious tweets. Enjoy.
Why Red Badger is promoting web accessibility and why we need your help.
Accessibility is a subject close to our hearts and we think we can’t shout enough about this so often ignored topic. So last Thursday, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we concentrated all our forces on raising awareness for this important subject.
Find out why we believe it’s important, what we did and why we think businesses are missing out on a huge opportunity.
Red Badger - eight years and maturing nicely
It is crazy that three years have already passed since I was writing a similar blog post to this, celebrating Red Badger turning 5. In that previous post I started by mentioning how time goes so quickly and that still rings true. I cannot believe it has been 8 years since Stu, Dave and I started this company.
Have you stretched your mind this week?
Everyone knows how good you feel after a workout. The positive effect movement has on mental health is well proven. Yoga specifically is being offered as a complementary treatment to psychotherapy. To me, yoga has had great impact on both my mental and physical health.
The Weekly Sett: Mental Health, Accessibility, Netflix, Royal Coding and Sunburns
This week has been a busy week one for the news agenda. It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Thursday marked Global Accessibility Awareness Day and on Saturday it’s the Royal Wedding. We’ve been sifting through the news to pick out some of the stories which caught our eye this week.
Let’s talk about mental health
Mental health is a topic close to many badger’s hearts and last year we collectively nominated Mind as our company charity. Since then, we’ve been working to become a mentally healthy workforce; reducing the stigma associated with mental health and normalising discussions about mental health and wellbeing.
The Weekly Sett: Google, tech diversity and DevOps
Despite the glorious weather, we somehow managed to read some great articles this week, check them out below.