We’ve blogged previously about digital opportunities and ways to engage the market to make sure your procurement gets the best pitches from the most appropriate suppliers. We’ve developed our thinking on this through lots of conversations with other suppliers and with buyers. We’ve also drawn on our extensive experience of going through the procurement process […]

Another week, another hackathon, this time in Waltham Forest which will be the first London Borough of Culture in 2019. The hackathon is the last event in Waltham Forest Council’s Digital Month. dxw joined a group of local developers and designers to work on the first Map of Culture, mapping the borough’s cultural hotspots. Open […]

Last Friday I spent a day in Leeds, attending Product People North. It was a nice excuse to go and see dxw’s new second home city, and also gave me the opportunity to catch up with some people I haven’t seen in a while and meet some new ones too. I like events like this […]

We’re looking forward to attending SMR, a tech-specific recruitment held at The Old Truman Brewery on 24-25 November. The event is spread over the course of the weekend; Saturday being dedicated to product, design and marketing, while Sunday is aimed at data science and developers. As we’re hiring for multiple roles, we’ll be there all weekend. On Saturday […]

Last month, dxw had the pleasure of sponsoring the first #CauseAScene conference. It is a part of our Diversity & Inclusion initiative to create awareness of job opportunities for marginalized people and to gain a better insight into obstacles they have faced and what they’ve done to try and make a difference. Kim Crayton, the main organiser […]

Earlier this month, a few of us from the user research team went on a seaside field trip for UX Brighton. The conference theme was ‘Advancing Research’, a topic very relevant to our work at dxw, so here are a few thoughts from the conference. 1. We need to go beyond user needs  Whilst the […]