This week is a big one for Made by Many.

In three days we move from BBH to our new home at Diespeker Wharf, where we'll have five times as much space as we do now, and a real 'maker-space'. BBH London has been an amazing base for us for three years and we will miss the many good friends we've made there. As a place to start a business, I don't think it could have been better. The agency is full of awesome, clever people. But being three years old is like being a teenager in internet years and we needed to get our own space. More on all that in another post.

Timed to coincide with the move, we have been working on an exciting new website (err, yes, it's this one if you're looking at the dot com site). 

In our short life so far we've had a series of websites starting with a single pager, and then a couple of gradually more sophisticated blogs. The new site takes a great leap forward. The blog remains central, but as we've finally worked out how to talk about 'what we do' and 'why we think you should hire us' we thought we'd better share that. We've moved off WordPress, which has served us well to date but we've built the new site from the ground up. Even the admin system is beautiful. 

But there's more: 

  • We're now on madebymany.COM - we've decided to switch now, and that kind of reflects our ambitions and the fact that we're now working globally. (Don't worry everything will redirect...)
  • There's a new carousel section at the top of our home page that works like a mini creds deck. And yes, we've noticed that we've kind of left 'visual thinking and design' out of this... doh! (next release...)
  • An entirely new area called 'Signals' where can sort of bundle up some of our obsessions and recurring themes from our blog, and turn them into something more valuable. We're hoping this will be useful and become somewhere we can invite collaboration with experts from our wider network.
  • We've added another new area called 'Footnotes' where we can share the talks we've been doing or hosting (there will be a lot more of these in our new offices btw), the wikis we've been creating, the London events calendar we've been curating and all sorts of other bits and pieces
  • We've updated the clients page and case studies
  • We've integrated our Posterous site, which seems to be where all the fun stuff is happening
  • And we've created a big old people page that links to new profiles that bring our personal Twitter feeds into the pages. This is another area we're going to expand in later versions

The whole thing is dripping with javascript goodness and the typography is super-beautiful. We've tried to design very clean pages that give the content as much room as possible. And in general we've started to weave a much richer social layer through the site. I shall let Conor write more about the design process and what we've tried to achieve with the experience.

I say, "We've finally worked it out", as if it's all done and dusted. Well obviously, that's not actually the case but we feel we're some way closer. A lot of people were kind enough to take the time to comment on a blog post I wrote in March this year in which I wrote about how difficult we'd found to describe what we do. We found that feedback really useful and we'd love your thoughts. Let us know what you think. We want to do this in the open and we need to learn fast so we can make changes in the coming weeks and releases. As ever, it's a work in progress.

So, there's more to come with follow-up posts about the technology and design, and of course the new office. We'd love you to drop by and say hello - but wait until Monday because that's when we get in.

Onwards!

Tim Malbon

Tim Malbon Founding Partner

Tim founded influential digital product design company Made by Many in 2007. He’s a leading voice in the emerging practice area of product design and innovation, customer experience and business strategy. He’s the Webby Awards UK Ambassador and a member of the IADAS, and was recently named by Creative Review as one of the 50 Creative Leaders "driving change, not just within their organisation but in the world at large."

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