Design

5 books that shaped our design thinking

Sam Small   ·   5 April 2017

Business Strategy

Four GIFs that introduce our new proposition at Made by Many

Tim Malbon   ·   5 April 2017

Technology

How we built passwordless authentication with Auth0 and Elixir/Phoenix

Includes the Actual Code!

Sam Murray   ·   5 April 2017

Business Strategy

The Empathic Consultant

How we balance people, business and power in our work as product designers

Isaac Pinnock   ·   30 March 2017

Technology

Fun with AWS Lambda, illustrated by cats

Kat Lynch   ·   23 March 2017

Process

How to waste your customer’s time as well as your own

Quality customer research is the foundation to creating things people want to use — and potentially love to use. But it’s really easy to mess up this kind...

Adam Morris   ·   22 March 2017

People

Building a Human Company

On the cusp of our 10th year, Made by Many is more human than ever. A wonderful collection of misfits, eccentrics and oddballs is what makes us the compan...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   4 January 2017

Technology

10 things we changed in the technology team in 2016(ish)

We aim to encourage a culture of experimentation at MxM but also a culture of responsible decision making. Everyone needs to understand that technology de...

Andrew Walker   ·   4 January 2017

Business Strategy

Made by Many’s history of 2016 in 26 objects*

An end-of-year listicle in the form of an A-to-Z which, coincidentally, has 26 letters. Hence, 26 things done, said or made by Made by Many this most weir...

Kevin Braddock   ·   22 December 2016

Design

When a sketch isn’t a sketch

The evolution of the humble sketch

Adam Morris   ·   20 December 2016

Design

Principles for encouraging customers to buy more than an exhibition ticket

Lessons learned from designing for cross-sells with the Royal Academy of Arts

Sam Small   ·   15 December 2016

Process

3 ways to get the most out of kid-centered research

“You two look like Ant and Dec.” A small finger prods at me through the air. “You… are Ant.”Knocked off balance I look to my colleague for reassurance, on...

Adam Morris   ·   15 December 2016

Health

Announcing Bloop: a free iPhone app for people with diabetes

Bloop is a new, more positive way of maintaining healthy control of diabetes.

Peter Parkes   ·   5 December 2016

Business Strategy

Innovation labs: best practice

The second volume of our report on innovation labs presents a broader collection of contemporary best-practice knowledge, gathered from our discussions wi...

Kevin Braddock   ·   16 November 2016

People

Equal Pay and the levelling potential of digital

2016 has been a shocker of a year on the politico-econo-socio stage and it’s easy, especially in this unwelcome reality of Brexit-Trump-WTF-is-coming-next...

Charlotte Hillenbrand   ·   10 November 2016

IoT

Diabolical fun and chat about IOT

What’s not to love about pumpkins, cobwebs, tricks, molecular gastronomy and chat about the Internet of Things? This week we found out at our inaugural ma...

Isaac Pinnock   ·   8 November 2016

Technology

Notes on React Native QA

Here at Made by Many we’ve recently developed two apps using the React Native framework, which gave me my first chance to QA apps built in it. This is how...

Jamie Mayes   ·   27 October 2016

Business Strategy

A deeper layer of digital

The previous instalment of this story discussed the work Made by Many did on the Victoria & Albert Museum’s web presence, in particular on technology ...

Kevin Braddock   ·   25 October 2016