Blog Category: Innovation

At a recent Type Tasting workshop, our designers got an insight into typography and how it can evoke emotions in your consumers.

Vanesa Iglesias, from Facebook, film journalist and writer Alex Godfrey, creative director Dan Andrews and TotallyMoney.com CEO Alastair Douglas all sat down to watch and rate the 15 films shortlisted in the Thumb-Stopping Moments competition, finally deciding on the top three.

Three designers from TotallyMoney.com recently attended the Generate London 2016 conference. This is the first in a three-part series of blog posts focusing on the conference. Is web design a secure career? Should designers code? These questions often cross my mind and make me question my career and skill set as a designer. They were …

Read moreGenerate London 2016 Part 1: The future of web design

Mastercard recently launched a new logo, and for any brand as ubiquitous as theirs it’s an event that will always carry an element of risk. Despite the rigour of the design process and the nous of the people involved, you never really know how well it’s going to go until it’s out there — how …

Read moreA Tale of Two Circles: Mastercard re-designs for the best of times.

One in six Londoners risks not having a voice in the upcoming mayoral elections. With just five days until the 18 April deadline for voter registration, nearly one million people living in the capital who are old enough to vote are not on the electoral roll. Voiceless: The percentage of unregistered eligible voters in each London borough …

Read moreGet on the electoral roll and make your voice heard

So, guerrilla user testing. Sure, we’ve all heard people say: “Just go to Starbucks and offer people coffee in exchange for testing your app”, but to me that raises a whole bunch of questions: What kind of testing can you get out of bothering people? How can you know they are the right type of …

Read moreCoffee shop UX – a cup of feedback to go

With the winners and losers at the Oscars and BAFTAs dominating discussions on the Creative desk this week, the conversation quickly turned to the ever-controversial subject of book vs film. Which are the best film adaptations of novels or short stories? Which brilliant books were lost in translation when they ended up on the big …

Read moreAnd the award goes to…

Picture the scene. It’s 11pm on an idle Tuesday and I decide to post a spontaneous piece on Medium. “I’ll probably delete it in the morning,” I say to myself. Just 24 hours later and my first ever post is trending in Medium’s global top five. I had no followers on the platform and virtually …

Read moreHow to Get Your Writing Read, Shared and Appreciated

I want to listen to more new music, break out of old patterns, discover new bands and get excited about them. So, as I did last year, I’m only streaming music that has been released this year. And not much that I want to listen to has been put out yet – I’m really waiting …

Read moreTurn On, Tune In and Listen on Demand