Insights

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.

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.