Archive for July, 2011

Beyond Usability: Increasing conversion with persuasive design

Posted by Admin | Category: General, User Experience | 22/07/2011 4:49 pm

We are very proud to have been one of four official sponsors of the first FutureCommerce conference, delivered in partnership between MEN Media and How-Do, earlier last week. Held at the Bridgewater Hall, the event looked to find solutions and identify opportunities within new digital marketing channels. The day covered identification, acquisition, conversion and retention [...]

Adobe vs Apple – Round 3 – Ding Ding, Tick Tock

Posted by Code | Category: General | 12:31 pm

I, like a fair few others, was very excited about downloading and installing OSX 10.7 Lion this week. Which got over 1 million downloads in 24 hours. It boasts some cool new features; Full Screen mode for apps, multi touch gesturing, Launchpad, etc. But as an Adobe creative suite user, I was also concerned about [...]

Mobile yet? Your customers are

Posted by Code | Category: General | 19/07/2011 2:26 pm

Eric Schmidt (from Apple and Google fame) has been quoted as saying ‘If you don’t have a mobile strategy you don’t have a future strategy’. With access to the internet via a mobile device set to take over desktop internet access in 2012 – it’s a simple argument. We were fortunate to have a thought-piece published [...]

Code On The Panel For Mobile Monday Manchester

Posted by Code | Category: General | 15/07/2011 10:29 am

With mobile being tightly woven into the fabric of Code, it was with great honour that Mobile Monday Manchester’s organisers approached Code to join the panel and lead a discussion on Mobile Web Vs Native Apps. The panelists included our very own Ste Brennan, Brendan Dawes from magneticNorth, Rich Millington from 2Ergo, Tim Haysom from [...]

NodeJS Socket Lights

Posted by Code | Category: General | 12/07/2011 1:46 pm

This is a demonstration of how we used a NodeJS socket server to display a sequence of content across multiple screens and devices using javascript. We connected 28 devices including iPads, laptops, desktops and the Code jukebox to our socket server. All of the client devices were connected to the server using web sockets (SocketIO) [...]