Insights

We are delighted that Danny has been selected as one of BIMA’s Hot 100 digital personalities of 2014; being listed alongside the best in UK digital for 2 years in a row is a fantastic accolade, which reflects the great work of the team, both in and out of the office.

Yesterday, I was selected to present a case study for ‘Rackspace Unlocked: The Hybrid Cloud’ in London; this event is part of the Rackspace Academy, where experts are invited to help educate businesses and developers on how to make the most of cloud hosting solutions. My practical expertise on how to build the most effective payment portals in the Cloud became a crucial element of the eCommerce track; I’ve recapped the highlights of the conference here. 

I’ve been wanting to break some of the negative myths surrounding CSS pre-processors for quite a while, so when I got the opportunity to speak at SXSWi 2014 in Austin, Texas, I knew this would be the perfect forum to do so. I also wanted to provide useful tips and techniques to get started, and reveal how this technology can help developers to vastly improve their efficiency when coding CSS.

Cyber-Duck were excited to get involved in Startup Weekend London, based at Google Campus. Danny revealed the importance of prioritising basic user experience (UX) principles in startup business models before the 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation began; he also returned to judge the final pitches at the climax of the weekend.

Digital agencies, organisations, and their customers have all been affected by the Heartbleed vulnerability, which was discovered earlier this week. We take internet security seriously here at Cyber-Duck; here, we explain what the issue is, our response and provide top tips to help you deal with it.

Last week, Danny shared key insights about the basic principles of user experience (UX) at the CoFounders Bootcamp, organised by Founders Nation at the Wayra Academy in London. The entrepreneurs attended a full day of keynotes and workshops, designed as an end-to-end guide to influence their minimal viable product (MVP).

Production Director, Matt Gibson, entertained a full house at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TFM&A) exhibition last week. Matt spoke about responsive web design and imparted his experiences from leading responsive design projects, giving useful pointers that the audience could take away and apply to their own projects. The Cyber-Duck team were also on site to answer questions at their exhibition stand.

Despite the tube strikes and horrendous February weather, the first Digital Pond meetup of the year was a roaring success; we attracted a full house of London’s top user experience (UX) designers, software engineers and entrepreneurs to soak up the knowledge and expertise of Andy Budd, Matt Gibson and Anna Dahlstrӧm.

Danny returned to the University of Hertfordshire to give a keynote on the importance of project management. He shared his expertise with the National Centre for Project Management on how to deliver the highest standard of work and achieve happy clients through applying the user-centred design (UCD), lean, agile and ISO-9001 systems.