Northern User Experience (NUX) is an informal community for people interested in usability. Based in Manchester and Leeds, NUX holds free monthly meet-ups in both cities, with guest speakers from the User Experience community. Code Computerlove host the Manchester meet-ups, donating the use of our office space and facilities (and our refreshments budget) for the [...]

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 [...]

Foursquare, the most popular location based app, hit the 1million user mark this week, in half the time it took Twitter. Other location apps are also rapidly gaining in popularity, particularly Gowalla and Brightkite. Why do people use these apps? An initial glance would glean no obvious benefit from telling people where you are. In [...]

Part 3 – The Liberal Democrats – www.libdems.org.uk Capitalising on their recent TV debate success, the homepage banner rotates fairly quickly through images of Clegg speaking in various locations– there are no real messages here, only signposts to read the manifesto or watch the first debate.  The aim of this seems to be to build [...]

Part 2: The Labour Party – www.labour.org.uk I originally reviewed the Labour site 3 weeks ago – since the election date was announced they have launched a new site, a complete overhaul of the previous. If you didn’t see the old site, you’ll have to take my word for it – it was poorly organised [...]