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Why The Heritage Sector Should Get Pintrested
Over the last few months you won’t have been able to read a blog, have a nosey at Facebook or nip to the local takeaway without somebody mentioning Pinterest. So what is this phenomenon that’s...
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Mobile UX part 3: It’s all in the memes
For the last part of my series on Mobile UX I’m going to talk about memes and memetic design. I will explain what they are and why I believe they are important to mobile UX – more important in fact,...
View ArticleA Watch, Wearable Computing, Robots and the Internet of Things
If the latest reports from the tech grapevine are to be believed, the wizards at Apple have battened down the hatches of their minimalist bunker and are working on the Next Big Thing: a watch. This...
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London 2 – Things we like
Throughout our time at Reading Room we talk, we laugh and we share things with each other while we work. Sometimes they’re really cool websites we’ve come across, funny links or just stuff that happens...
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A day in the life of a Technical Architect
They say that only two things in life are certain: death and taxes! Unfortunately this leaves a hell of a lot for me to do in a day as certainty is something I crave! My search for certainty drives...
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London 1 – Things we like
As well as creating brilliant digital solutions for clients, at Reading Room we love to stay up to date with industry, and continuously explore the web – we send each other snippets of cool stuff we’ve...
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We are London 4
Its been a several weeks, we are settling into our new space, now sporting a new ident proudly mounted on the wall so you can’t miss us. Colour schemes Whilst many people would jump at the chance...
View ArticleAn Evening Session on the Future of Digital
We’ve finally got around to launching our Digital Conversations meetup and we’re pleased to announce the first Evening Session on Wednesday 5th June. These evening sessions are intended to explore...
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London 3 – Things we like
I’ve been a member of London 3 (and Reading Room) for the past two months and I’m here today to share with you what makes L3 tick. It’s a great adventure! We love creating sites we are proud of and it...
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How can designers represent personal identity graphically?
This is the follow up to the brief talk I gave with Emma Kalkhoven at the inaugural Digital Conversations ‘Evening Sessions’. If you want to know more you can take a look at the demo we’ve built at...
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CSS Hexagons and a hybrid solution
How I made CSS hexagons and eventually settled on a hybrid CSS and image based solution I was recently asked if we could base a webpage interface on hexagons, which at first seemed straight forward,...
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Join the Reading Room crew!
It’s an incredibly exciting time to be joining the team; we’re busy working with a diverse range of clients to produce award-winning work both in the UK and globally. As a result of some exciting new...
View ArticleMobile first – Structuring the document and optimising the loading profile
Mobile First This is the first in a series of four semi technical blog posts outlining the approach and techniques used to create a high performance mobile first website. Structure the document and...
View ArticleMobile first – Lazy load images, tabs, panels and custom lazy loading
Lazy load images, tabs, panels and custom lazy loading The first blog in this series looked at how altering the DOM structure for mobile and desktop differentiation and dynamically loading plugins for...
View ArticleGraduate Open Evening – Wednesday 30th October 2013
Open Evening – Graduates – Software Engineering/IT/Computer Sciences/Design/Technical Development – Wednesday 30th October 2013 Reading Room are delighted to host an Open Evening for recent graduates...
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Four steps to avoid the common pitfalls of crowdsourcing
The concept of crowdsourcing has been put to thousands of unique uses since it was originally conceived of by Jeff Howe in his June 2006 Wired article ‘The Rise of Crowdsourcing’. Examining the various...
View ArticleGetting to grips with Twitter’s Custom Timeline
Last week Twitter introduced the Custom Timeline to give users “more control over how Tweets are organized and delivered on the Twitter platform.” At first I questioned the need for such a tool when...
View Article2014: the year Hackathons got serious
‘Hackathons’ and ‘retail banking’ are not phrases that most people would think would go together. Last week I attended an event run by Lloyds Banking Group that certainly changed my mind about that....
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