Understanding Discovery Research: What It Is and Why It Matters

Join Nils as he transforms a complex static design into a responsive web layout, detailing each step from HTML planning to advanced CSS styling.

• CSS
• Web Dev

Explore the creative process behind enhancing a website's homepage animations using React, CSS keyframes, and clip-path for optimal performance and design.

• Web Dev
• Animation

Our web developer Nils Borgböhmer shows data privacy lawyer Steffi Besselink a customer's website and get all his questions answered: For which parts do I need user's consent?

• User Experience
• Web Dev
• Data Privacy

Learn how to use component sets in Figma to be able to update your designs while maintaining the integrity of your clickable prototypes. It unlocks super quick iterations after Usability Testing

• User Research
• User Testing
• User Experience
• Design system

Explore the transformative role of AI in SEO, as Nils and Jan delve into how user experience and AI tools like ChatGPT enhance understanding of user intent and content quality, shaping the future of digital optimization.

• Comms & PM
• Business
• Strategy

Learn how to retain potential customers and boost conversions by optimizing your website's user experience. Explore the impact of bad UX on business metrics

• Business
• User Research
• Strategy

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

If you have doubts why UX research is crucial for your products success, this post will make you consider its true value.

• User Research
• Business
• Strategy

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 Dev
• Strategy
• Business

In this article we'll show you how to improve your "Cumulative Layout Shift" (CLS) score to help your website's Google ranking.

• Web Dev
• User Experience

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

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 Dev
• User Experience

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

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 Dev
• Video

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 Dev
• Video

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 Dev

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 Dev
• Design & Feedback
• Video

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 Dev
• Video

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 Dev
• CSS
• Video

In the third part of this series we explore hands-on what it means to setup a document type in Sanity and how that helps us to create re-useable content for our website – and other channels!

• Information Architecture
• Web Dev
• Video

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 Dev
• Video

We're currently in the process of building our new Dinghy website. We're using Sanity as our content management solution and in this video we're sharing how we're using Sanity's structured content approach to make our content as re-useable and versatile as possible.

• Web Dev
• Information Architecture
• Video

The value of UX Research is often underestimated. We are certain it increases revenue by uncovering insights about users and their pain points.

• User Experience
• Business
• Research

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

Creating really good websites is a tough nut to crack! The key is to understand what the client really needs and wants. This article gives a little insight into how you get exactly that information.

• Business
• Strategy
• Human Connections

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 Dev

Have you ever asked yourself: When is the right moment to test whether a design solution will be appreciated and understood by your users? Spoiler alert: It is much earlier than you might think.

• Research
• Prototyping