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7 things you can do to improve your signup form

Maximize your lead conversions with effective sign-up form strategies! Discover 7 essential tips to enhance your form's usability and boost submission rates.

  • User Experience
  • Conversion
  • Accessibility
  • Data Privacy
  • Content Strategy
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    What is a Hyperlink?

    Hyperlinks power the internet as we know and use it. Learn about all the features of a link and how it shapes user experience, marketing and page performance.

    You Can Conduct Usability Testing on Your Product at an Early Stage – Here's How

    Discover how to conduct usability testing at the early stages of product development. Learn the benefits of early user feedback and get a step-by-step guide to integrating usability testing into your design and development process to ensure your product aligns with user needs and expectations.

    • User Research
    • Qualitative Research
    • User Testing
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    Live-Coding a Fullstack Prototype – Episode 1

    Explore quick prototyping techniques using React and SuperBase to create a virtual bookshelf. Learn how to set up a CRUD interface and integrate user feedback.

    • Web Development
    • Prototyping
    • User Experience
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    Good Design is Accessible

    Learn how prioritising inclusivity enhances user experience, fosters diversity, and creates digital products that cater to all users' needs effectively.

    • Business
    • Accessibility
    • User Research
    • Qualitative Research
    • Human Connections
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    Guide to launching a website in 2024

    In this hands-on comparison of different ways to build website in 2024, you'll get a comprehensive overview to be able to take an informed decision on how to tackle your next website project. We're comparing traditional systems like Wordpress and Typo3, no-code solutions, static site generators and the new and famous "headless" approach enabling flexibility and extensibility.

    • Web Development
    • Strategy
    • Business
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    EAA – The next disruptive Europe wide directive

    Learn why the European Accessibility Act will be important for your business and how you can prepare your websites compliance before the laws of each member state are taking effect on June 28th 2024.

    • Accessibility
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    Privacy-aware, GDPR compliant Website Analytics with Plausible.io

    Discover how Plausible.io offers a privacy-first, GDPR-compliant analytics alternative to Google Analytics. Learn about its ease of use, accuracy, and how it ensures user privacy without sacrificing insight quality on your website.

    • Web Development
    • User Experience
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    IN/OUT 2024 UX edition

    The official in and out list of 2024 at Dinghy, here's what we'd like to see more and less of in the upcoming year

    • User Research
    • Design & Feedback
    • User Experience
    • Strategy
    • Business
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    New Dinghy Website Part 9 – Mobile Menu Interactions

    Welcome back to series on how we're building our new agency's website out in the open! 🤗 In today's episode we work on the mobile menu of the site and show how to setup gestures that make the site feel more like a native app – in surprisingly few lines of code 🧐.

    • User Experience
    • Web Development
    • Video
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    New Dinghy Website part 8 – Circular Floating Images

    In this episode we put together a nice, circular layout using Sanity's structured content approach and CSS's new trigonometric functions 🙌. The whole experience turned to be very nice because it's still very easy to update images in that content element without having to touch the mechanics of the animation 👍.

    • CSS
    • Design & Feedback
    • Web Development
    • Video
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    New Dinghy Website part 7 – Fancy Links in Headlines

    In today’s episode of how we’re building the new Dinghy Website we'll be looking into how to leverage Sanity CMS's block content to let content authors work on the main headline of our website, while still being able to make it visually appealing and pack it with a bunch of nice effects.

    • Video
    • CSS
    • Design & Feedback
    • Web Development
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    New Dinghy site part 6 – Get in touch!

    In this video we're working on our contact page. In this process we'll look a tiny bit more into structured content with Sanity, a lot more into CSS layout techniques and mostly into how we can create contacts right in our Hubspot account via their official API. We're doing that because we'd like to be in control of every design aspect of the form and Hubspot only let's people with very deep pockets do that the regular way :D

    • Web Development
    • Design & Feedback
    • Video
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    New Dinghy site part 5 – creating bookmarks

    Today we're creating a shortcut to post new content on our Sanity powered blog! The idea is to be able to post interesting links on the go without having to be logged into the Sanity studio and all that.

    • Web Development
    • Video
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    New Dinghy site part 4 – subgrid in a carousel

    In this video we explore CSS subgrid by looking at the example of our project page which features a carousel that has some special requirements thrown at us by the layout.

    • Web Development
    • CSS
    • Video
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    New Dinghy Website Part 2: More structured content

    In this second video in the series on how we're rebuilding our Dinghy website, we talk more about structured content and how it helps to keep content consistent and easy to update.

    • Information Architecture
    • Web Development
    • Video
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    Start with the hardest part

    Compiling the actual content of marketing websites early on rapidly accelerates the design process. It also unlocks supreme stakeholder alignment, among plenty of other surprising benefits. Here’s to wireframing with real content and five hands-on takeaways to use for your next website project.

    • Prototyping
    • Business
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    Switching Frameworks Yet Again

    Our leap to SvelteKit found more than the obvious benefits of superb DX and built-in animations. It led to unforeseen successes in swift adoption and innovation in our development team.

    • Web Development