Insights

Last night, Thursday 26th September, the Digital Pond reconvened for an evening of learning and networking at the Old Sessions House, Farringdon. The night focused on user experience (UX) strategies, with great talks from Sandi Wassmer and Barry Briggs and an inspiring presentation from award-winning young coders, Team Elstree.

Two of the team's awesome programmers, Benjamin Maugain and Alex Miller, have been invited to speak at the Mozilla Festival in October. In their session they plan on covering using web based applications to trigger events in the real world, using Arduino and Node.js.

The Ducks were proud winners of the “Best Tech” category at last night’s Wirehive 100 Awards. The team joined other leading digital agencies in the South-East of England in Guildford, where they received the sought-after award for the production of Symble’s Broker CRM.

Cyber-Duck are proud to have been nominated as one of six finalists for the category of Best Self Promotion at last night’s highly acclaimed BIMA Awards.

Yesterday, budding programmer Luke Ashford (13) from Team Elstree and Cyber-Duck Managing Director, Danny Bluestone, were invited onto BBC Three Counties Radio’s drive time to share their thoughts on using technology to help reinvigorate the UK’s stagnating high streets.

Cyber-Duck’s team came together to create six fantastic products in one weekend in the 2013 internal R&D weekend (Hackathon). The 18 Ducks devoted a weekend of hard-work to achieve some ambitious projects and display their areas of expertise.

‘Three Men and a Marketing Lady’ modified an antique cuckoo clock into a new notification system for our Cyber-Duck office. The uniquely designed structure signals twitter, email and error message alerts and is an impressive new feature on the office walls.

'Breaking Code' used their coding and design skills to create a new system to collate and measure client retainers. This innovative app manages time, budget and tasks all in one single location; a perfect new tool for Cyber-Duck.

The 'Grange Hill Gang' created a new app to replace school homework diaries, increasing the transparency for teachers and parents and ensuring clear instructions for pupils about their homework tasks.