Elly

Developing skills in Human Computer Interaction

17 Jun

At the beginning of 2013 I was looking for a way to develop my skills and learn more in the area on User Experience. Finding a solution that would fit in with work and wasn’t too pricey seemed impossible until I came across an online course in Human Computer Interaction run by Stanford University. The 9 [...]

Neil

Hot tub cinema

13 Jun

An interesting and different way to watch films with your friends in London this summer – the pop-up rooftop Hot Tub Cinema! There’s a bit of a divide about this concept in the Strawberrysoup studio – some who quite fancy the idea of stripping down and jumping in an inflatable hot tub while enjoying a [...]

Hayley

New site for new streetwear brand Brakeburn

4 Jun

We recently launched a new e-commerce website, designed and developed by Strawberrysoup, for new innovative streetwear brand Brakeburn! Brakeburn is Jackson Distribution’s own brand of clothing, who we have worked with before, designing and building the UK Iron Fist website. The clothing, accessory and footwear designs are inspired by the team’s passions for street culture, cycling and board [...]

Hayley

Flickr’s redesign heroes photography (but what about the photographer?)

31 May

Flickr has been in need of a redesign for a long time, and the newly launched site is definitely a huge improvement. The new layout really heroes the great photography shared on the site, with large images stretching across the screen and infinite scrolling allowing users to get sucked into admiring endless inspiring shots.  They’re [...]

Elly

Innovative designs for social good

22 May

My Favourites from the Designs of the Year 2013 I was overwhelmed by the great designs showcased at the Design Museum’s exhibition this year. It’s great to see so many designs nominated that combat social issues including clever solutions for 3rd world problems and products that assist people with a disability. Here are some of my [...]

Hayley

One Memento

15 May

If you’re anything like me, you’ll occasionally look through the photo album on your smartphone and realise that you take and keep a lot of really pointless, rubbish or ‘samey’ photos. Digital cameras have kind of taken away a lot of the thought that used to go behind which photos you want to use up [...]

Elly

Using the 10 heuristics to review the usability of your website or UI

2 May

Heuristic evaluation is a method to quickly and cheaply evaluate a user interface (UI). In the early 1990s Jakob Nielsen devised a set of 10 heuristics. These are usually used by experts to test a design at the early stages before, or instead of, user testing. We have explained these 10 points below with examples so that you can use [...]

Neil

Strawberrysoup joins Sideshow

25 Apr

Strawberrysoup x Sideshow

We’re really excited to announce that Strawberrysoup, our award winning full service digital agency has joined forces with ideas-led creative agency Sideshow.

Neil

We’re hiring! Talented web developer wanted!

17 Apr

With a number of great new web development projects coming through our doors, we’re looking for a talented & experienced LAMP web developer to join our team. As a Strawberrysoup LAMP web developer, you would be building some exciting client website development projects using a combination of well-structured, reusable, modular, annotated code written yourself as [...]

Elly

Website dos and don’ts for accessibility

9 Apr

When designing and building websites, it’s important to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 set out by W3C. This long document covers points that are relevant to designers, developers and content generators. We have created a list of key points that all designers should be considering when creating an accessible website design. Must DOs [...]