We are on the hunt for Front End Developers again!
We Love is a fresh take on what a creative design agency can be. Small but focused, driven and creative we design and produce unique digital solutions for a diverse range of international clients. We feel that the people that work for We Love are its most important assets. In fact, they are the DNA of the company.
Skill sets and Personality: You should ooze talent, have vision and can code the ass off Kylie. You know your way around flash and can animate better than the Warner Brothers, ActionScript better than Cyborg, as well as being willing to prove yourself in a growing, fast paced industry.
We won’t tie you down to PureMVC or any other framework – good OO design principles and high code standards are all that’s required. AS3, PHP/Python and a good knowledge of HTML/CSS a must – anything else will be a bonus and knowledge of the Gaia flash framework is favourable.
You use BZR/SVN/GIT regularly and have experience with issue tracking apps like Trac. You are someone who is mature enough to understand a brief, and can take direction as well as contribute and show initiative.
You must have a couple of years experience behind you and be Mac happy and PC proud.
Benefits: We Love offer an excellent benefits package which includes performance based bonuses and personal development budgets as well as the opportunity to grow and learn whilst working on leading edge and exciting creative projects.
Salary: Competitive Salary
Location: A beautiful Manor House in Maidstone, Kent, near mainline train stations.
Creo Productions’ official video of event planner Rob Bliss’ 2009 ArtPrize entry, “100,000 Paper Airplanes and Melodies Over Monroe.” On September 27, 2009, brought over 20,000 people together in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan to play the main melody of Sigur Ros “Olsen Olsen.” The paper airplanes were 100 percent post-consumer and were picked up by children, participants and a professional cleaning crew. The event seems a little pointless, however magically brings the people of Monroe together and I guess its something you don’t see everyday!
Congrats to all – We have just completed our first project for L’Oreal – Vichy Consult.
We have commenced a phased and gradual re-design of the site, introducing a more uniformed visual style as well as improving the overall layout, usability and site structure of the site. We have and will be employing more technical advancements to the site to aid a more user focused experience and create value to the brand.
We look forward to applying the new standards across more areas of the site from here on in.
Early last year we embarked on a number of projects for Michael Sultan - one of Harley Street’s finest – in the form of brand development and the design of all offline collateral for EndoCare. Nearly 18 months later, after the addition of 2 more practices (Richmond and Watford) we’ve launched the new EndoCare website.Â
Through a structured layout and vibrant colour palette, the final solution was clean, elegant and distinctive, adding value to their brand and bringing life to an industry that is traditionally seen as ‘dry’.
Focussing on 2 key end user types – patients and dentists – the site’s user flow is tailored to 2 very distinct patterns of behaviour: you’re either in pain and need certain information succinctly and quickly, or you’re investigating the validity of EndoCare in terms of patient referrals. With this in mind, we established how best to satisfy these needs through a combination of UX and user centric design.Â
Utilising tools such as Crazy Egg will help establish a history of user journeys and behaviours throughout the site, leading to an iterative review of the site’s highly scalable design and build.
Future expansions of EndoCare within the digital arena include Facebook and an exciting new online product free to dentists and other practitioners within the industry… More news available soon (launch is due in around 3 weeks).
We’ll keep you posted on any further movement, until then feast your eyes on the clean, friendly and open experience that is www.endocare.co.uk
And thanks again to everyone at EndoCare – a great client and team to work with
The big chill is upon us. The weather has turned and as we all know, its better to wear lots of layers rather than one big chunky knit! So to make things sweet this xmas the busy little elves at Dripping in Fat have decided to run a January Sales beating offer. Yep, if you buy 2 tees you get 1 free. So, if you want you can save on your xmas shopping (if you can bring yourself to give that freebie to a friend this festive season) then go buy now… or you could be real selfish and keep it…
Now you can afford to beat the big freeze. Buy more, pay less, be happy!
So, I have been officially working at We Love for 2 months as of this week and I have been a bit slack on the blog front lately so I figure it’s time to fill you in on what I have been up to!
It has been an extremely busy 2 months, working on some pretty big and exciting projects, lots of late nights, lots of early mornings, lots of stress, lots of “anti-australian” sentiments, and a few “nightmares” but I have loved every minute of it!
Still no arguments with the developers yet, but I have been late to work once. I guess it’s fair to say everything is going pretty well.
I’m busy working on the new We Love website at the moment so better get back to it, in the meantime here is a sneak peek of a small part of the new website to get you wondering about what we have in store…
A few months back you may remember reading on our blog that Mark, our CD, had been invited to the Design Off in .NET magazine. Well now you can witness his works, thoughts and direction in response to the fictitious brief of a redesign of a theatre site in November’s issue. We believe it to be the best of the bunch… but why don’t you judge for yourself and see if Mark has still got his mojo…
And if you rush out and buy a .Net November issue you can also see his piccy… which he most adamantly claims has had no retouching what so ever… well, we will leave you to make up your own mind on that one…
The Brief:
Mock up the homepage of a theatre site. Visitors should get excited about attending a production and have no trouble finding out what’s on and how to buy tickets. The page should also reflect the atmosphere and personality of the theatre. Consider including social networking features and video.
Sugagloss, a top end retailer of exclusive adult accessories, underwear and gifts, tasked us with the development of their brand, online strategy and a ground up redesign and build for their eCommerce solution.
Our response was to push the boundaries of what’s possible within an eComm environment, applying offline shopping behaviours within an online environment and developing a fluid, intuitive shopping experience that is truly a digital masterpiece. Built completely in Flash around a massively enhanced Magento backend, it behaves like a designer shoppers dream – and yet with it’s HTML progressive build methodology it ticks all SEO best practice requirements – whilst never for a moment compromising it’s user centric, highly engaging environment.
Speaking of best practice (see our visit from Patrick Collister) – best practice dictates many things from eCommerce – an area where many are too scared to deviate from the norm because it provides a mean level of results and predictable responses. In today’s climate, high street retail is a running battle, with every trick and every stop being pulled to increase footfall and maximise ticket value, so why do we see such banality in online? Because so many are so frightened of trying something new, of opening the doors to disproportional results and leaving behind the well worn ruts of mediocrity. Not so SugaGloss, a client with both vision and confidence in equal measure.
Let us know what you think – good or bad – we’re always open to new thoughts and alternate views.
Sorry for the late update… been mega busy here at We Love… hence the reason why we are looking for another Dev guy/girl Check out the job spec if your interested >
Thanks to all the guys at Stack Overflow (presented by Carsonified) for a great and highly inspirational day. We particularly enjoyed; Remy Sharps talk on jQuery, Christian Heilmann’s Yahoo Developer tips, iPhone tips by Phil Nash and Jon Skeet’s hand Pony!! Love this pic below- This is sooooo NOT true!!
We in England (and perhaps some of the old Colonial counties) are extremely lucky to celebrate a man who in 1605 tried to blow up the House of Parliament in London. I am not 100% sure of why we celebrate this fact, my secondary school learnings were such a long time ago… hold on I will just google it… Oh. It turns out we celebrate the fact that he was caught… oh well… brilliant, or not so brilliant if you were in Guys’ gang.
I went along to the Museum of Kent this year with the family to see the fireworks and have a generally great night out. And I wasn’t disappointed, nor was my partner, Jen, or my 2 year son. It was a great night of eating junk food, fairground rides, crazy gyms, a (what can only be described as) HUGE AND BLOODY HOT fire, fire jugglers and a firework display to round off the night that put Sydney’s Millenium celebrations to shame.
