Insights

The nominations for awards keep flooding in: Cyber-Duck has now been shortlisted for the UXUK Awards and as a finalist in the Drum Agency Business Awards. This is a major achievement for Cyber-Duck this year – we’re so proud of all our staff who made this possible.

Following our new expansion into one of the UK’s hottest tech hubs, Leeds, we were invited by the University of Leeds to judge their second annual hackathon. With Yorkshire Building Society and PwC setting challenges, the hackathon had a distinct financial services angle. We sent New Business Manager Tom Millson, also our FinTech sector expert, to support and tutor the students.

As a champion of UX since 2005, it was a great honour to sponsor UX LIVE this year. One of our greatest passions here at Cyber-Duck is giving back to our community. To do that, we took over the Live Stage at UX LIVE and brought a selection of panels and a workshop on conversational design to the conference. Here are our highlights from the two-day event!

The future of your business depends upon using Digital Transformation to become more relevant to customers and drive growth. But what is digital transformation strategy? Where do you start? Who needs to ‘own’ and drive it?

In October 2018, Cyber-Duck was named in Econsultancy’s Ones to Watch list. Our inclusion recognises Cyber-Duck’s great achievements over the past 13 years. We’re proud to be included among the industry’s best.

In late September 2018, Cyber-Duck finally became a teenager. We celebrated our 13th birthday at the central London venue, the Happenstance. Here’s our summary of why the last year in particular was worth celebrating with a night on the town!

Current projections suggest that 50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020, and that by the same year screens won’t be used in 30% of searches. This is the new reality following the unstoppable rise of the voice assistant. Are you prepared for voice search? With a voice app available for UX Companion and much more besides, Cyber-Duck is well on the way to harnessing this exciting new technology.

With Apple now also jumping on the bandwagon of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), the next generation of web experiences is fast approaching. But what are progressive web apps? To get to grips with this transformative new technology, we looked at progressive web app development ourselves and transformed UX Companion into a PWA.