Insights

Here at Cyber-Duck, we’re celebrating the global ‘Internet of Things’ Day; there’s no better time to think about the huge potential of being able to transform an everyday object in the real world by connecting, and making it react, to online activity. We’ve been exploring the idea through the ‘Cuckoo Quack’ project, where the team modified an old cuckoo clock, to become an online notification system.

After pulling together the highlights of 2013 for Cyber-Duck’s board, we thought you would also like to take a look at our story! So, pretend you still have that January hangover and enjoy a nostalgic trip across our best year so far; then, you can even be pleasantly surprised with just how close the Easter holidays are.

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.

At the annual Spring Hackathon with Google Campus, our team was challenged to create a digital product to benefit local communities over just 30 hours. The result was CrimeTimeline, an interactive map for users to search, filter and visualise local crime.

We are excited to exhibit at Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TFM&A) exposition next week; the UK’s leading multi-channel marketing event showcases the latest innovative technological solutions for business media campaigns. Matt Gibson will be sharing his expertise on the importance of responsive web design (RWD) for creating fantastic experiences for users, on any web-enabled device.

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.

Marketing Intern, Jennifer Babayode, sheds light on her time working in our Marketing Department for six months as part of her university work placement.