This is not a new year’s resolution

OK, it is a new year’s resolution. I just don’t want to label it such. Denial is a useful survival tactic; a lens through which all behaviour is as we’d l...

Andy Whitlock   ·   2 January 2014

Let's kill the idea of navigating news by the company org chart

Do you look for ‘politics’, ‘business’ or ‘technology’ when browsing a news site? I don’t: I look for stories that matter to me and I know that many other...

William Owen   ·   16 December 2013

The delights (and despairs) of killing time at airports

These days we're spoilt for devices that keep us busy in our free time. We crave that immersion into digital space. I want to tell you about a recent expe...

Ana Cecilia Santos   ·   6 December 2013

Part 3: Mystery Skype: from meme to platform in three weeks

This is the third part of our blog series about how we built a new teaching community around an existing user behaviour on Skype in the classroom. Read pa...

Zofia Ciechowska   ·   4 December 2013

Night of the Digital Dead for Internet Week Europe

To celebrate Internet Week Europe this year Made by Many created an alternative kind of event; we invited guests to join us on a walking tour of East Lond...

Charlotte Moore   ·   3 December 2013

Part 2: Mystery Skype: from meme to platform in three weeks

The second part of our blog series about how we built a new teaching community around an existing user behaviour on Skype in the classroom. Read parts 1 a...

Zofia Ciechowska   ·   3 December 2013

Part 1: Mystery Skype: from meme to platform in three weeks

This is the first part of a three part blog series about how we built a new teaching community around an existing user behaviour on Skype in the classroom...

Zofia Ciechowska   ·   2 December 2013

"I want the world!" - inside user insight

Here are some words on our approach to user insight - paper, pairs and precious things, singing, riffing, attacking and organisms, experience, market stal...

Rory Hamilton   ·   21 November 2013

The Time Travelling Designer and other stories of Agile Design

I was recently having breakfast with a UX practitioner talking about the integration of interaction design into Agile and specifically a Scrum process. I ...

Stuart Eccles   ·   30 October 2013

Continuous Integration for iOS Development

When developing iOS apps a number of things are required for producing a quality product. These include the ability to run unit tests on the code and to t...

Julian James   ·   29 October 2013

The plain-english guide to making the right product

We pride ourselves here at Made by Many towers on making great products without the fluff.

Sound bite laden innovation theory isn't what we're selling - ...

Andrew Sprinz   ·   22 October 2013

A week in New York; what I've learnt so far

I've been here in New York for a week now, working out of our New York office that we announced last month. I'm very new to this city, so I thought I'd sh...

Chris Bell   ·   16 October 2013

London Betaball toy testers wanted!

Here at Made by Many we have been working on a project called BetaBall. We're really excited about how it has been coming together and we are at a stage w...

Ben King   ·   15 October 2013

A sneak peak into #mxmsupperclub

One of my favourite things about working at Made by Many is the wonderful culture that is nurtured between us. One of our regular company gatherings' is t...

Ana Cecilia Santos   ·   10 October 2013

Validating validation

Making digital products is a process that demands a customer centric approach. It would be stupid to assume that you don't need to ask the people what the...

Paul Sims   ·   9 October 2013

Dispelling some myths about BIG thinking

Pats’ recent post ‘Why Big Is Still Beautiful’ resonated with me. I’ve spent the last year wrestling with the relationship between vision and validation a...

Andy Whitlock   ·   9 October 2013

Are you constantly seeking mindless stimulation?

I used to think people who complained about digital overload and distraction were simply weaklings. There was a time when I looked forward to swapping my ...

Tim Malbon   ·   4 October 2013

R.I.P. Picle

It's been a while since we last wrote a blog post about Picle, in fact it's been over a year. The last post promised a re-worked version with group piclin...

Alex Harding   ·   17 September 2013