Supporting AUA Members to Continue Developing Professionally
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the term used to describe the learning activities professionals engage in to develop and enhance their abilities.
Elliott Barnicle
Lead Designer
Experience Your Future, with Coventry University
Coventry University has been running online events throughout the 2020 pandemic. But with digital fatigue setting in, they wanted to take a different approach to applicant visit days. To stand out from their peers, they turned to SMILE.
Online Events by SMILE, at WPCampus 2020
Join us as we take a look back on SMILE at WPCampus 2020. Watch our talk about online events and how Hijack helped our clients through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webinar Follow-up: Resources from our Accessibility Webinar
A follow up on our webinar about website accessibility and how it applies to your organisation with SiteImprove and the University of Gloucestershire.
Changing the way we design with evolving software
Over the years, the design team at SMILE have used multiple design programmes in a bid to deliver the highest quality output for our clients. When I began at SMILE in 2017, we briefly used Figma for design work but…
Join our Upcoming Webinar on Website Accessibility
Join our webinar to learn more about website accessibility and how it applies to your organisation with SiteImprove and the University of Gloucestershire.
Working with UEA on their flagship website
We re-designed the University of East Anglia (UEA) website. This was our biggest design project to date including UI/UX design, and the creation of a design system.
Embracing Google Web Stories for Morley College London
SMILE looks into ways that Morley College can promote their expanding offer using a new technology - web stories, by Google.
Helping the University of Sunderland calculate scholarships
As a long time supplier for the University of Sunderland, they approached us with an idea to reinvent the way that prospective students are able to calculator available scholarships.
The difference between the needs of the user and stakeholder opinions and how feedback can affect a project
When it comes to redesigning a flagship website, a prospectus, or virtually anything that requires design input, there is a 99% chance that the client will have an opinion and thoughts to feedback (rightly so, they are paying for it).…