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Originally posted on the Government as a Platform blog. The GOV.UK Trade Tariff is a service people can use to find licences, duty and VAT rates for goods they want to import or export. In July, the Trade Tariff became the first service to migrate to the UK Government…
Prototyping websites and apps is one of the key skills of a UX practitioner. We rely on our prototypes to save valuable time and avoid building real features that are not user-centred. There is still a risk, however, that a lot of time is spent…
Back in 2012 we built the Trade Tariff digital service for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The service allows people to look up key information on importing and exporting different types of goods. HMRC recently asked us to run a “rediscovery” for the service. We…
At Bit Zesty, we take an agile approach to running projects. Agile projects start with a “discovery” phase. This is when you find out who your users are and what they need from your service. But over time these things can, and do, change. At…
SXT Health is a social enterprise whose mission is to improve access to sexual health information and services across the UK. At the beginning of 2015, they made the decision to further expand their digital offering and after the initial Discovery phase, it was decided…
Without knowing it, millions of people around the world rely on Ruby, and Rails, our technologies of choice – from streaming video games, to finding holiday accommodation and listening to their favourite music. In this blog post, we will mention some of the most famous…
SXT Health is a social enterprise whose mission is to improve access to sexual health information and services across the UK. Having worked with us for around five years (in which time we’ve designed and built two applications) Bit Zesty was the SXT team’s first…
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are some of the most prestigious business awards in the country. They’re highly competitive, with a large number of applicants and a rigorous application process. So when we were selected to rebuild their software, we were very excited. However, every…
In the 90s, a Japanese developer called Yukihiro Matsumoto – after struggling to find a programming language that was both powerful and easy to use – decided instead to create his own. Ruby was born. It was first released publicly in 1995, however didn’t gather…