Video games are great, they delight us, they challenge us and they reward us, but most of all, games are fun. In this piece, we talk about how to develop your skills whilst gamifying your job at the same time. Channel your inner nerd and start playing.

Years ago, if you had told my teenage self that I would be in UX Design, I would have asked you firstly what is UX, and secondly will I still get to blow things up in the lab. 

Years later here I am, making a career out of listening to people complaining about things not working properly, trying to find fresh ways to solve their problems.

‘When I grow up I want to be a lawyer, an artist, a journalist and work for National Geographic. Oh, and maybe also an astronaut. And a chef’. - Me, age 10.

As ridiculous and unachievable as this may sound, I still secretly wish I could become all of these things. Where some perceive pure career confusion or a lack of passion, I see a born and bred generalist.

At Hatchd as we have moved to more product based work we are looking at design a little differently. Rather than doing a bespoke design piece every time the client wants something new, we have been employing a more atomic design approach. This helps us build a design system to create efficiencies for design and unite the team with a single source of truth.

See how two veterans have connected thousands of their brothers and sisters in arms across Australia, with just an app.

With remote working becoming the new normal, how do we continue harnessing the collective intelligence of locationally disparate individuals?

Everyone's talking about design thinking, but it's no silver bullet. Here's where it delivers and where it falls short.

The way people transact has dramatically shifted, but banks haven't. Here's why they need to overhaul their financial product lines and fast.

The internet abounds with articles on how technology is ruining love and nobody is romantic anymore. Here's why we disagree.

The concept of User Experience can mean different things to different people, so we rounded up three of our chooks and picked their brains.

Web components are the way forward for creating reusable user interface elements... but is the future here yet?

Culture influences what people do and how they do it, making it key to organisational change. Read how we fostered ours to start operating in product-mode.