Living style guides with Stylio
Stylio allows designers to manage visual components in a standalone application that integrates with Ruby on Rails applications. This allows design changes to be developed, reviewed and released with...
View ArticleSeparate your nginx web & puma application servers
Generally speaking, if you don’t have the luxury of using a PaaS such as Heroku and you’re trying to deploy a Rails app, there’s a certain amount of manual configuration with nginx using reverse...
View ArticleCould you be our Head of Client Services?
£32 – £38k Based in Birmingham or London Monday to Friday, 9 – 5 We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to help us establish and deliver the company’s client services function. Over the...
View ArticleSubstrakt Health
We have always been interested in working with the Health sector, and have delivered several projects over the years which whet our appetite. Earlier this year came our big opportunity to give the...
View ArticleIn memory of Aaron Swartz
A short post about Aaron Swartz, boy genius, co-inventor of RSS, Reddit developer and data libertarian, who died on Friday.
View ArticleOKRs at Substrakt
Having run a digital agency for over 10 years, the one thing I do know about is the importance of a good team (especially when you can’t design or develop a website yourself!). It is essential that we...
View ArticleThe design process (is not a flow diagram)
Everyone likes diagrams, and everyone likes lists. Lists are easy. The process of designing websites at Substrakt, however, is not a neat production-line-style flow diagram; it doesn’t follow a linear...
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