Article archive for 2020

Nowadays, most websites integrate with a handful of APIs, but not all of them are well designed. What to do when a marketing afterthought built to “tick a box” starts wrecking havoc on your website? We've compiled a list of approaches we have taken while working with dozens of broken APIs.

It all began with a Tweet: Your website design is impossible to read! White words on a white background don’t work!... clearly something is wrong here, but what exactly?

As part of AGSA’s digital transformation we automated an integration between their CRM and eCommerce platforms to help provide a better service for their members.

Since about 2012, we’ve been talking about building a CMS for museum websites. And while every museum is different it’s become obvious that they all tend to need the same set of tools. So like a phoenix, rising from the ashes…

Testing is good. But how do you test a dynamic, single-page application? Cypress is one answer.

Single-page applications are prone to bugs. How can we prevent them? Testing. The answer is testing.

We talk to Deb Verhoeven - speaker, researcher, film-lover, data wonk and gender equality commando - about finding a world without domination and how she is using data to take on gender offenders in Australia’s Film industry.

We speak to new media researcher and practitioner Dr Josh Harle about getting visual artists more critically engaged in a medium that is typically dominated by computer scientists.

"Interaction" was an occasional podcast about collaboration that crosses boundaries between disciplines, technologies or cultures.

As part of the site rebuild for the Australian Museum, we integrated the website with Centaman, a system used for ticketing, memberships and as a general CRM. In this post, we outline our technical approach, and flag interesting features of the Django + Wagtail + PostgreSQL stack we use to build custom websites

I was recently told by a client that I have a weird brain, which naturally set me thinking about many areas of my life, particularly how I manage projects.

Clayton Christensen died this week. We've been using his concepts of disruptive innovation and his Jobs-To-Be-Done theory for years. This is a brief farewell to someone who was, by all accounts, a generous and thoughtful soul.