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  • Ed Davey starts the year at dxw

    I am delighted to have recently joined dxw as a developer. Since the mid-’90s I’ve been part of numerous web projects, many of them of an educational, cultural or civic nature. Running back from the circus Long-term projects have included the Royal Opera House, a carpet and textile dot-com, an online tutoring system, the food-sharing service…

  • Meltdown and Spectre

    At the beginning of 2018, two classes of attacks on computer processors (CPUs) were announced, Meltdown and Spectre, which will require updates to be applied both to desktop and server systems. These vulnerabilities affect almost all computers worldwide. dxw would like to reassure all our clients and the organisations that we work with, that we…

  • Introvert or extrovert – which are you?

    Take the quiz and complete our very quick survey. Differences between introversion and extroversion are based on people’s preference for environments that are either calm or exciting and also on whether they have a preference for deliberation vs. action.   Given the choice, introverts devote their social energy to a small group of people they…

  • Results: the DOS Armchair Audit

    The results are now in, and make for sobering reading…

  • A year in review by Poss Apostolou 🙂

    I woke up today, my last day in the office in 2017, and felt compelled to reminisce about the past year. You see, from a personal point of view, 2017 has been fun. After 11 years in the Civil Service, I joined dxw in April. New faces and a different culture, but the same mission…

  • Mapping User Research Data

    In User Research we deal with a lot of data – it’s the lifeblood of our trade. We work hard to gather rich data about users, capturing it in many forms, and using a wide range of data collection techniques. But getting our hands on the data is only half the story. In order to…