Insights

Team 'DRADIS' created a bus tracking app that plots the progress of bus routes along maps in order to determine its arrival time at the bus stop.

At this year's Quack Hack, 'The Ponderos' created a new online portal that collates all the Cyber-Duck brand guidelines and document templates in one easily accessible location. The team designed a new website that will be a handy tool for the Ducks to access both internally and remotely.

On Monday 29th July, I spoke at the “Untangle the Web” event at Google Campus London.  I spoke about responsive web design, why it matters and imparted some real-world experiences from responsive design projects including the challenges we faced and the design decisions we made along the way.

Last week Cyber-Duck took part in hosting the Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code as a YRS Regional Centre. We mentored and facilitated for six aspirational coders aged 13-17 at our Elstree offices as they took part in the biggest youth coding event in the UK.

On Thursday 1st August, on one of the hottest days of this summer, the Digital Pond community came together for an evening of learning and networking, specifically to listen to the stories of two young, successful entrepreneurs about starting a business in the tech industry, Ted Nash and Nadav Poraz.

Matt Gibson was once again asked to share his knowledge and experience, writing for the August 2013 edition of the Web Designer Magazine. The article made the front cover of the industry leading publication. The piece introduces the key concepts of user experience (UX) design, and how to implement the theory into the production of a web based project.