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Power of ten 2 Apr 2013 | 04:34 pm
Today we became a company of 10 people! The last few years have seen pretty significant growth at Message but I thought this new milestone shouldn't go un-marked. A fortnight ago we took on our fourt...
The Matrix of Design Goodness (Infographic) 19 Feb 2013 | 09:56 pm
I originally started this infographic as a long and somewhat complicated article on the subject of 'good' and 'bad' design, along with the subject of originality and copying. Sod that though. I'll ju...
Also comes in white 13 Feb 2013 | 05:37 pm
There's only so long a window-cleaner can drive round in a dirty van before people start saying "he can't even keep his van clean, why would I let him loose on my windows?" Such is the life of a web ...
CAPTCHAs don't have to be hideous 31 Jan 2013 | 08:39 pm
I read a report that Ticketmaster was ditching its current CAPTCHA in favour of something more 'usable'. Unfortunately for you, the ticket-buying public, the technology they're replacing it with combi...
King Pong! 4 Dec 2012 | 06:20 pm
Table tennis gets pretty serious here sometimes. So, we're running our second internal Ping Pong tournament, the Message Pongmaster Challenge… who will be crowned the King of Pong? Follow progress on...
The Five P's of Order Fulfilment 30 Nov 2012 | 08:42 pm
Long ago, in a converted print works far, far away… well, Kentish Town to be precise - we were pondering ways to re-design Rapha's order fulfilment process. The original process we'd helped them come...
Rapha and the new e-commerce standard 18 Sep 2012 | 05:14 pm
When we first started working with Rapha, many years ago, they made it clear how they wanted to approach the design of their website. They looked around the web and realised that e-commerce didn't exi...
Masters of our own domain 10 Sep 2012 | 07:32 pm
Seventeen and a half years ago, upon founding Message, we tried to purchase the domain name message.com. It was owned by Motorola and they weren't selling as they had a product of the same name. So we...
Rapha to dress Team Sky 30 Aug 2012 | 01:50 pm
Today our long-time client Rapha Racing made an amazing announcement. They are to become the official clothing provider to Team Sky; the world's biggest cycling team. Team Sky won two podium places a...
Add to bag: shoplifting for e-commerce 21 Aug 2012 | 06:16 pm
Some e-commerce sites ask you to add your items to a basket, like you might in a bricks-and-mortar shop. Some suggest you pop them in your cart, like in a 'real life' supermarket… in America. (We have...
