Digital Design blog

Written by Jim Rawson, Senior Designer Whether you are delivering government information or selling shoes, how your website looks and works is of vital importance, but it also pays to make sure you ‘dot your Is’ and ‘cross your Ts’ by making sure it meets current legal requirements...

Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News Commentary here. ‘In my mind there is still one big unanswered question to be settled - just how many people are eager and willing to tell the world where they are? The privacy concerns are obvious, though Facebook has done a reasonable job of...

Facebook has been holding internal ‘hackathons’ every couple of months since 2007, giving their developers the opportunity to progress loose ideas into the beginnings of something tangible during the course of one overnight ‘hacking’ session. As Facebook say on their blog, ‘...

Now as much as at any other time, we are aware of the cycles of boom and bust upon which our economy rides high and crashes low. The pattern of events which precedes a crash is often the same: investors are caught up in a frenzy of hype and buzzwords, and often without researching how realistic companies’...

Written by Joanne Pontée Whilst reading the paper this weekend two stories caught my eye, they were both about the same subject but from completely opposing angles - social media and its impact on the nation’s love lives. The first story was about the re-launch of a location based “flirting”...

By Jonny Irwin, Lead Developer, PDMS Digital Design Team Over the last number of months I have dedicated many hours of my life to creating websites in “Umbraco”. Rarely as a developer do I get so enthusiastic about developing against a product such as this. So, what makes Umbraco different...

As Britain thaws out from last week’s heavy snowfall, trains, planes and automobiles are once again on the move, and only the most severely hit areas of Britain are still cut off. Among the numerous stories of roadside recoveries, of how the emergency services pulled together and community spirit...

We’ve all been there: your flight is boarding, but you’re stuck at the back of a queue to get through security which snakes through at least half a kilometre of airport coffee shops and buckets into which we can handily deposit bread knives, or a machete we may happen to have upon our person...

In the early days of social networking, and before Facebook implemented its sophisticated (but much criticised) privacy settings, users of social networking sites were fairly relaxed with the knowledge that everything they posted online could be seen by… everyone . Early adopters of social networking...

The majority of people in the UK do not suffer from a physical or mental impairment and it’s easy to forget that hundreds of thousands of people in the UK do suffer from disability. With each disability comes a different set of challenges to how people use websites. Due to the great range of disabilities...