If you work in the area of UX you will most likely use or have heard of a UI mock-up tool called Balsamiq Mockups. It’s something that we have been using at Redgate for the last few years to quickly put together our initial ideas to help communicate, provide a point of discussion and... read more
Every 3 months at Redgate we hold our Down Tools Week (DTW), in which everyone in development stops working on their regular projects and is allowed to work on their own min-project ideas. In the UX team we saw this as an ideal opportunity to also try out some new ways of working together.... read more
We’ve just released the first alpha of Page Trawler, our new content audit tool. At the moment it’s only a prototype, but we have grand plans for the product. We believe producing a sitemap of a website should be easy and not be the long, protracted, manual process it is today. We’re really interested... read more
We’re in the process of re-designing the UI for one of our products, SmartAssembly. It’s a great tool that allows you to modify an application in three different ways: Protect the application code in various ways to make it difficult to crack Enable your application to report errors that users encounter Add analytics to... read more
We’re excited to announce that we have just released our first iPhone app – Out of Office for Outlook. Forgetting to set your out of office before you go on holiday can be a real nuisance. Our app solves this problem by letting you turn your out of office on direct from your iPhone.... read more
So we’re all the familiar with Steve Krug’s first law of usability ‘Don’t make me think‘ and the book of that name. The sequel to that book, ‘Rocket surgery made easy’, gives more suggestions on how to conduct a usability test session. It’s another useful book with plenty of good advice, but one particular... read more
Trolls used to exist only in Norse mythology, but the loathsome creatures that once lurked under faraway bridges, now seem to be everywhere! The modern type aren’t as cool, but on the plus side they’re generally not blood thirsty ogres. An internet troll is instead; Someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in... read more
