Welcome to the 1minus1 lab. Here you will find articles covering what we are talking and thinking about, and a little bit about what we are working on.

Creating design for sales pitches

Things we are talking about Posted by Darragh on 19 October 2011

There are so many reasons that creating designs as part of a pitch is a bad idea; and it isn't just a bad idea for us as the potential supplier (we prefer 'partner'). It's also a bad idea for potential clients, a bad idea for other companies in our industry, and a bad idea for companies in any industry where design might be required as part of a pitch. Here are just a few of the reasons why.Read more.

Decorating the 1minus1 office

Things we are talking about Posted by Sarah on 13 June 2011

We've been decorating at our Farnham, Surrey HQ. Since we have been here a good few months now, we felt it was about time to get stuck in and get creative. Especially since we have all this illustration and graphics skills ... why not show it off? Read more.

Feedbackize

Feedbackize is the newest of our labs projects in development. Created in Ruby, it is a super simple way to provide either open or closed (private) feedback to anyone and everyone. Like Updayte.me (our other Ruby product in development), we are going to release Feedbackize as a free product, and we are using it to showcase our skills, and release something that we hope people might use and enjoy. Read more.

Introducing Razorback

Razorback is our CMS and eCommerce platform. Although at first glance this does not sound very interesting, Razorback is currently our most important piece of software. Since its first deployment on a live website in May of 2010, we have launched a further two dozen websites using Razorback as the Content Management System. It is proved itself to be an absolutely key asset for the company, because we built it to address as many of the problems we faced with other CMS's as we could. Read more.