Retreat! (No, not that kind, come back….come baaaacccckkk!) As part of our Sisyphean task to continue to improve everything dxw, we headed off on our annual retreat at The Olde Bell in Hurley, Berks. Whilst the surroundings were familiar to those who attended the previous year, the format of the retreat was organised this year […]

Hey. I’m Gaz, and I’ve recently joined dxw as a designer and front-end developer. I’m here because I believe technology can bring about real change. I’m enthusiastic about rapid prototyping, simplicity, learning, and collaboration. In previous roles, I worked on fully-fledged production applications, prototypes to demonstrate and validate ideas, and internal tools to improve the […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a while, you might have picked up on many companies and people talking about ‘Pride Month’, talking about LGBTQIA issues or seen many a Pride flag (in all its glorious rainbow colours).

Today I learned – TIL We have a Slack channel, which I’m sure most of you have, which is dedicated to sharing cool hints and tips that we have found out during our working day.  This is the TIL channel and it sometimes throws up some pretty useful things as well as some pretty obvious […]

Without wanting to sound like I’m attending an AA meeting – Hi I’m Jane and this is my first week at dxw as Marketing and Communities Manager 🙂 The last time I was working within the public sector sphere was way back in 1999 for The Home Office’s Communication Directorate, and it’s safe to say […]

Why dxw? Being generally annoyed with inefficiencies made me a user researcher Having worked in hospitality for a number of years, I started my professional tech journey just over five years ago at a startup providing reservation systems. Not exactly a ‘saving the world’ sort of industry, but it did expose me to to the […]