Creating great software is a design process from start to finish. It involves an endless stream decisions about everything, from constructing individual lines of code to the radius of rounded corners on buttons. If the people making those design decisions are more like the people using the software a better outcome is likely and a roughly equal split of males and females working on product development is a good target to aim for.
The IT industry has a diversity problem and fixing it will be a long road that starts with a better understanding of the problem. Psychology postgraduate Jessica Drackett approached us for help finding cohorts from the Agile Yorkshire community for her PhD research. It was a pleasure to help with this and an education to listen to some of her findings when she came to present as part of the Agile Yorkshire Ada Day event.
We’re hosting a Code Club community training evening to allow anyone who is thinking of becoming a Code Club volunteer an opportunity to find out more about Code Club and get an insight into what to expect and how to…
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This year saw the launch of a new service from Leeds-based start-up RaceBest Ltd. NewRedo were responsible for building their online system and we continue to host and support it. In building the system we utilised some of the latest…
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We’ve just published an early working version of an on-line service created by NewRedo, however, although written in ASP.NET MVC 2, it’s not running on a Microsoft server. Instead we’re running on Ubuntu 11.10 using the NGINX web server. First,…
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