World Creativity and Innovation Day: problem-solving at The Workshop

The pandemic has transformed our lives and we need innovation to tackle the challenges of this new world. In many ways, it’s never been more important to celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day and appreciate the creative economy. To mark the occasion and reflect on the power of creativity within our own business, we asked […]

Behind the scenes at The Workshop: A day in the life of a Quality Engineer

Who we are The Workshop’s Quality Assurance (QA) team is a group of 20+ people dedicated to maintaining the quality of products created by our company. Our goal is to coach teams and empower them to deliver consistently high-quality software. Since I joined The Workshop in 2017, the role of the QA team has evolved […]

Building a team in a pandemic

At the beginning of 2020, it was looking like a pretty exciting year. We were creating a new team to build a platform from scratch. We had a great mix of people, including some with experience of the old platform and others that could bring fresh ideas to the development. Writing a new product from […]

How we hosted our first remote Designathon event

2020 was a year of challenges and changes, to say the least. To add to our list, we set ourselves the task of hosting a fully remote collaborative event. The design team had no experience in this area. But after this year, we’re used to doing things we haven’t done before, right? Designathon: What on […]

The importance of user perspective

User perspective is an actual trend for focusing on our end users’ point of view, as they are the people for whom our software is designed. This behaviour-driven development is a way of improving the legibility and testing of our code and, therefore, the communication between different roles involved in software development. User perspective ultimately […]

Happy International Women’s Day 2021

We asked a group to solve the same problem. We recorded their responses. Let’s hear what they had to say in this video… Happy International Women’s Day!

5 Data Privacy Tips for Individuals and Businesses

What is Data Privacy Day? On 26th April 2006, the Committee Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to launch Data Privacy Day, to be celebrated each year on 28th January. Why 28th January? This date corresponds to the signing anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 in 1981, otherwise known as the “convention […]

Design that speaks code. A guide for developer-friendly UI Design

Design handoff stage is an integral part of any project. This moment comes when UI (specs and assets) is to be handed over to the developers. Name it how you want it: slicing, engineering handoff, design handoff, developer handoff, design-to-dev or simply design-to-code. How many times have you seen designers complaining about front-end teams not […]

Quick start with Security Requirements

In the Application Security team, at The Workshop, we perform many interesting activities. One of these is conducting Security Assessments for existing projects and defining Security Requirements for new features. In this post, I will share our approach and guidelines that can help you to address Security aspects in your product, without having to involve […]

Looks aren’t everything. Or are they?

If we have to agree on whether looks matter or not, most people will say ‘yes’. The physical appearance of anything that is in front of us, including people, places, objects or any type of product, says a myriad of things about them. And we, as watchers, create opinions in just a blink. According to […]