Di8it - Interactive Development and User Experience Consultancy

We are a unique digital agency that specialises in intimately getting to know your customers and designing the experiences they have with your products and services.
We have expertise in web, digital TV and mobile technologies, across a range of organisations operating in the private, public and third sector. We apply ethnographic approaches and human centred design to help you create enjoyable and memorable products and services ... supporting you to bring those products and services to market more successfully.

HOW WE CAN HELP

User Experience Research	User Centered Design
Speciality Services	Training & Workshops

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Marcus Burns & Rebecca Kerton

Directors

Picture That (Worldwide) Ltd.

We have been working with di8it for almost 2 years now on our talking dictionary website project, www.ipicthat.com. They are always coming up with great ideas and the quality of their work, professionalism and lines of communication are second to none.


	WHAT'S NEW 02/03/2010 Di8it is speaking and exhibiting at the Collaboration Nation event \| Di8it is speaking and exhibiting at the Collaboration Nation event next 31st of March 2010. Di8it will be presenting the results of the feasibility study: “Deskslice – moving... 09/12/2009 Index Book's new publication featured di8it logo \| Index Book’s new publication called “Basic Logos” included our di8it logo designed by Raúl Gil in their typography category. Index Book is a leading publisher of targeted publications that feature logos, packaging, typography,... 10/10/2009 Di8it is awarded with Technology Strategy Board funding \| To stimulate innovation in business models, applications, services and technologies in support of the Government’s vision of a Digital Britain, the Technology Strategy Board allocated £2m for Feasibility Studies. The competition was open... 17/06/2009 di8it at EuroITV 2009 \| Ana Hulshof presented “Designing iTV Interfaces for Preschool Children” at the Euro ITV conference that took place last 3rd, 4th and 5th of June in Leuen, Belgium. EuroITV2009 is a forum for professionals not only... 02/03/2009 Connecting Innovation - 26th of March 2009 - Brighton UK \| Use8 – The User Experience Society is supporting the University of Brighton’s “Connecting Innovation” event that... 05/02/2009 New Frontiers in Social Media - 12 February 2009 \| Di8it is sponsoring Use8's New Frontiers in Social Media that will take place next 12th of February 2009 in Brighton, UK. Web 2.0 has brought a new generation of online tools that enable users to network, share resources and participate... 03/12/2008 Di8it speaking at the University of Brighton Reality Cheque event \| Last 19 of November Di8it took part in the Reality Cheque event organised by Beepurple – the University of Brighton Entrepreneur Network – as part of the National... 25/08/2008 PLAY - Exploring the UX Dimensions of Game Design \| Next 29th of August at 5.30 pm di8it and Use8 - The User Experience Society present "PLAY" PLAY will go beyond simple usability issues exploring different dimensions of User Experience that make games enjojable. Speaking: - Serco... 13/05/2008 Broadband TV 2.0 \| Next 23rd of May Di8it and Use8- The User Experience Society presents:... 25/02/2008 Anytime; Anywhere. Exploring the Mobile Web \| On the 7th of March di8it and use8 will host "Anywhere; Anytime" an event that will explore user experience aspects of delivering applications and services to the mobile phone platform. The event will... 16/01/2008 Di8it is presenting at the iEnter Workshop \| Di8it will be presenting a research paper at the iEnter - Workshop on Interactive Audiovisual Entertainment next 28^th and 29^th of February 2008 in Barcelona. iEnter is an event... 01/12/2007 Use8 launched its first event as part of Brighton Digital Festival \| Use8 – the Brighton based User Experience Society launched its first event called “Beyond the screen” last Friday 30th of November to explore how people experience Interactive Outdoor Technologies. “Beyond the screen”... 17/11/2007 Di8it at the �Reality Cheque� event \| Di8it was invited to present the company in the Reality Cheque event - as part of the celebrations for National Enterprise Week 2007- hold last 14^th of November 2007 at Cockroft building at the University of Brighton. 6 successful entrepreneurs... 05/10/2007 Di8it has just launched Use8 - The User Experience Society \| Di8it has partnered with Beepurple – the business services of the University of Brighton – to launch a Brighton based User Experience Society. The Use8 society aims to bring together students, professionals, academics and industry...


	WHAT WE THINK Design as Communication \| by Shawn de Freitas on 17/06/2009 \| Design as communication, Design as conversation : A semiotic investigation This article was written as an introduction to semiotic engineering – a theory of HCI that uses concepts from semiotics and computer science to focus on the communication between designers and users during interaction time.The article attempts to capture some of the crucial elements of the theory reflected in Clarisse De souza`s seminal book “The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction”... Posted in User Experience \| No Comments F@*k! My Emotions have been hacked \| by Shawn de Freitas on 05/06/2009 \| Social media has arrived and the Facebook generation is much more aware about privacy issues and rights regarding personal data. Just think about the recent uproar caused when Facebook tried to update its privacy policy; a decision it had to swiftly recant, removing the controversial clause.The truth is privacy on the web is a big deal but not only in the case of Facebook and other similar social networking sites. In fact many other companies capture and have access to our data, including the usual... Posted in User Experience, User Experience \| No Comments Google releases Chrome Experiments \| by Shawn de Freitas on 21/03/2009 \| This week Google released http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ a collection of Javascript-based experiments designed to show off the speed of the Google Chrome browser. The site displays 15 games, apps, and visualizations - designed to specifically push JavaScript to its limits and display the capabilities of Chrome. One of the core developments and efficiencies of the Chrome browser is V8, Google's open source, high performance JavaScript engine. According... Posted in User Experience, User Experience, User Experience \| No Comments