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AB testing the checkout – less is more
We tried to be more transparent at the start of our checkout flow but it turned out extra information was turning users off. So were we asking for too much or showing too much?A few months ago we...
View ArticleUntangling iframes: Jobvite
Integrating with any third party through iframes can be tricky. We weren’t willing to sacrifice our style and were committed to maintaining a consistent experience for candidates coming through our job...
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AB testing the checkout: continuing as normal
Before payment on our checkout we started by asking users to ‘confirm and pay’ before swapping it to just ‘continue’. How much does a call to action at this point affect conversion? Doing this AB...
View ArticleDon't trust your bug reports, aka how to crash IE9
For a while now we’ve had intermittent reports of people not being able to “view the pdf you emailed to me” after filling in our host questionnaire, and worse were the ones that came in saying “viewing...
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Introducing the Yellow Pages for the Unhotel
As you can imagine building the technology behind the ‘unhotel’ needs to be robust, scalable and very accurate. To enable us to provide our guests with a world class service; one of the essential...
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How we overhauled our search results page
We’ve just redesigned the oldest page on our site: the rather important search results page. For something that hadn’t been touched in over three years we had a lot of updating to do. Here are our key...
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Tech team hack day part 1: image tagging
We recently took ourselves off site (to one of our lovely homes of course) for a hack day where we split into three groups to build some quick prototypes. Here’s some detail on the first one, a nifty...
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Prodcraft version 1
Yesterday saw the launch of our new event Prodcraft. Where through a series of interviews and lightning talks we explore what it actually means to be a product manager.On center stage for the interview...
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Tech team hack day part 2: data visualisation
Continuing from our previous post about the tech team offsite, we’ll look at another project we worked on – data visualisation.Our company generates a lot of data, from many different sources – our...
View ArticleTech team hack day part 3: gonzo
To continue our series of write-ups from the tech team offsite, here’s a glimpse into the work we did refactoring and open-sourcing our release and cloud management tool, gonzo.We probably use gonzo...
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prodcraft version 2
Tuesday saw the second in the series of prodcraft. Through a series of interviews and lightning talks we explore what it actually means to be a product manager. This time with audio on our...
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Relief from web icon hell
This is the path we took pushing our icons to the next level. It’s a tale of vectors, formats, grids and tools. And, whilst the journey may be treacherous at times, vector icons could be what your site...
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Using Your Production Assets in Development - A Hybrid File Storage Backend...
We introduce our new approach to handling assets across different environments in Django projects.One of the problems developers face in maintaining a good development environment is how to have that...
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How to discover the hottest places in London and New York
We’ve just launched a wholeload of content about the local areas of the cities we operate in. These required some new design thinking as we wanted to put thousands of place recommendations at the heart...
View Articleprodcraft v3: James Offer on gamification
From the 26th June edition of prodcraft, here’s the audio and slides for James’ very entertaining talk on gamification (aka practical ways to gamify your content). *UPDATE* After a bit of technical...
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prodcraft version 3
Last Wednesday was the third in the series of prodcraft. The aim is to explore through interviews and lightning talks with interesting practitioners what it actually means to be a product manager....
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Encouraging developer laziness, part one
We developers, like most people, are lazy by nature. By lazy, I mean we loathe doing the things we should do at the expense of the things we want to do. We want to write useful code that solves...
View Articleprodcraft: Mastering the Ceremony by Alex Finnemore
The full presentation by @alex_finnemore of moo.com from the 14 August version of prodcraft.Some key quotes from the talk…"There’s only been 300 generations of people since we’ve had cities – 8...
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prodcraft: Chad Jennings
From the August 2013 version of prodcraft here’s our interview with Chad Jennings, VP of Product and User Experience at Education First in the Digital Learning team. He was also a co-founder at Blurb...
View ArticleSeamless static files with Django, Compressor, and S3
Here at onefinestay, one of our goals is to make our website as fast as possible. Aside from appealing to the vanity of our developers, it’s also easy to make the case that a faster website performs...
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