UX

In Paul Waller's final, and posthumously published blog post, he takes you through a creative walk-through of the Titanic Power BI Report he created with Barry Smart.

This is follow guide to designing a mobile navigation in Power BI, covering form, icons, states, actions, with a view to enhancing report design & UI.

Explore integrating icons, pictograms and images into Power BI in the optimal way to enhance the user experience and minimise effort required to build and maintain reports.

Explore a step-by-step guide on designing a side nav in Power BI, covering form, icons, states, actions, with a view to enhancing report design & UI.

Discover Paul's guide on expanding brand collateral for organizations through effective website development and design strategies.

Discover a concise guide on improving Model Driven Power Apps styles with step-by-step instructions for a polished user experience.

Explore how we developed an accessible color palette for Power BI reports, considering color vision deficiency and data visualization.

In this post we will talk through how to expand on a data team's creative skillset, without access to specialist photo editing software such as Photoshop or Illustrator.

In this blog post explore using Field Parameters to dynamically switch between measures in visuals, enhancing report analysis capabilities.

Explore a step-by-step guide on designing custom buttons in Power BI, covering shape, form, icons, states, actions, and enhancing report design & UI.

In this post we will be talking about our graphic process from conception to finalisation. We will look at Icons, Pictograms, Ideogram, and how we utilise this form of design to illustrate abstract technical concepts within our blog header graphics.

Explore translating a company's brand into Power BI reports and extending their visual identity to include the Power BI platform.

Boost Power BI report readability with dynamic font colors for diverse backgrounds, ensuring clear text display and enhanced accessibility.

A few years ago, I attended a Guardian 1-day Masterclass - Introduction to Data Visualisation. What I did not know then was that it would have a profound effect on how I view design. This blog is a recap of that day and reference points to consider when designing and creating graphics for data visualisation.

It is possibly that I have only recently discovered one of my favourite pieces of UX whilst on lockdown - Mobile cheques deposits via digital imaging in my banking app. In this short post I share my experience of discovering a simple but practical piece of UX that made me happy.

In 2016, endjin redesigned the Benchpeg website, migrating it from a 10-year-old platform over to our own CMS system - Vellum – so the Benchpeg team could have greater control over their content management and halve the day-to-day workload for generating content. This is a creative post about the practical experiences gained from 1-day silversmithing workshop at the invitation of Benchpeg.

The 3-day "Reasons To" conference was held in Brighton in September 2016. The conference is a fusion of disciplines: design, development, illustration, 3D modelling and data visualisation to name a few. In this post Paul Waller provides an overview of the sessions he attended and the ideas that really sparked his imagination.

Throughout endjin's history we have been invited to work on a host of projects. In late 2013 we were asked if we could produce a series of graphics props for the Great British Menu 2014. In this post we talk about the research and production methods behind developing graphics for television.

In this post we look at the history and motivations behind the Bootstrap CSS library, and the goals of the project.

See how to use Bootstrap 3 to create a full-page bleed.

This post discusses the importance of collaboration between designers and developers, including communication tips and a step-by-step guide.

See how to create a responsive website layout using Bootstrap.

We ran a retrospective of our first few Bootstrap-based HTML5/Javascript projects a few weeks back, and distilled some of the output into these top tips

Laying the foundations to build a brand doesn't happen overnight. At endjin it taken many years to develop our brand look and tone of voice. In this post we talk about developing our visual language so that we can maintain a consistent look and feel across all our collateral.

7 years ago, feels like a lifetime - for you eldest it is - but this was when endjin took the first steps in refreshing our website promoting our cloud expertise and mobile first responsive design. In this post we talk about our strategic, creative, prototyping and production processes to deliver our website and enforce our brand.