Insights

Ideas and perspectives from the work we do and the things we care about.

Product vs Craft

In the software development industry over the last few years, there’s been a movement towards ‘craft’. Sadly, though, it’s become a bit of a…

By Juan Delgado

7 Lessons From Setting Up a New Studio

Lessons the Sydney studio learned while setting up their new studio

By ustwo Sydney

How to easily mock up new backend systems

Testing is hard. Mocking up a service to test against is even more difficult. Doing all this when the service is under development and constantly in flux is downright maddening.

By ustwo London

ustwoThinks NYC - State of the City

We invited some of New York’s finest industry folk to our studio for the evening, to listen to four of the city’s truly influential and experienced operators talk about their experiences of building technology companies and teams in New York.

By Carl Martin

A week of work experience at ustwo

Five students spent a week at our London Studio learning about what we do at ustwo. We took them through a series of design thinking and team building exercises.

By ustwo London

New banking regulations – Fintech's Big Bang?

ustwo has been working in the fintech space since before fintech was a thing.

By Lawrence Kitson

Face Maker: A Personalization Love Story

Today we’re proud to launch Face Maker: A new approach to personalizing the aesthetics of Android Wear watch faces.

The Future Of TV, Episode III: A New Purpose

Initially developed as a way to transmit farming and stock market information late at night when programming wasn’t being broadcast, the technology was later used to as the global standard for transmitting textual information to TV sets.

By Lee Simpson

Open feedback culture helps our organisation learn

At ustwo, regular feedback plays a large role in our day-to-day work – we approach product design and innovation with a mindset focused on learning.

By Marit Kile Hartshorn

Why Business Mobility? Designing for tomorrow

Meet Jasmin – she’s a 28-year-old sales rep from Munich. She spends most days driving her company car, visiting customers and selling her company’s products including medicines, prescription drugs and medical equipment.

By Masafumi Hamada

Sky Kids: Designing for children

Having increased their on-demand catalogue from 700 to 4,000 episodes of the most popular kids' shows, they had more of what kids wanted. The next step was reaching kids where they actually watch – not in front of a TV but on their devices.

By Ayesha Moarif

Designing for Movement

One of the major challenges the fitness domain brings with it is designing for movement.

The Future of TV, Episode II: Old Tech, New Tricks

The rise of mobile video consumption, ‘cord cutting’ and streaming services have led many to claim that TV as a device in the home, is dead.

By Lee Simpson

Helping Young Women into the Tech Industry

A couple of weeks ago, we went to the University of Nottingham’s Women in Tech conference. We were there to run a workshop on ‘Innovating in Tech’ to share some of the tools we use to help ideate.

By ustwo London

Designing outside of the box: Building hardware driven interfaces

We recently had the opportunity to design a software interface for a physical product for one of our clients. We approached this project like any other – applying a lean methodology, grounded in a build, measure, learn process.

By ustwo Sydney

The Future of TV, Episode I: The State of Television

In this three part series we look at the current state of TV, attempt to analyze some of the challenges it faces as it attempts to stay relevant with evolving audiences, and present some concepts for our future vision of TV.

By Lee Simpson

(More) Universal Apps

Apple has had the notion of universal apps since the iPad was first introduced. While the iPad and iPhone may need (and often do need) user experiences that are unique to the device

By Aaron McTavish

Design Ping Pong

Every designer has at some point found themselves nudging elements around on screen for an hour, only to find themselves right back where they started.

By Ben Marsh

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