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The process behind successful UX design is made up of so many more variables than one would imagine. Producing an effective product, app or website requires an incredible amount of research and a strong understanding of the sectors or professions you\u2019re designing for. The UX team at Huddle<\/a> talk to us about the principles the company is founded on, their design methods and how the team has established themselves as a function.<\/em><\/p>\n

The world we work in has changed furiously over the last decade. New technologies have pushed businesses into tackling communication and collaboration as distinct and important problems. Today the challenge for businesses is managing all of the different tools they maintain, across a large variety of very new devices. Huddle Co-Founder, Alastair Mitchell<\/a>, saw that these changes were going to happen nine years ago. He had a vision that the way we work would change. Managing and sharing content online made sense for personal files like photos, but he thought, \u201cIf I can do this at home, why can\u2019t I do this when I go to work?\u201d And that\u2019s where the idea of Huddle was born.<\/p>\n

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\"A challenge for businesses is managing the different tools they maintain, across a variety of very new devices.\"<\/p><\/span><\/blockquote>\n

Today, Huddle<\/a> is a secure, collaborative, cloud based platform with a strong focus on the knowledge worker space. Founded by Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin<\/a> in 2006 and built with the purpose of providing people with more accessible tools in the workplace, it makes it easier to manage content and collaborate with their colleagues and customers. Sectors which rely on security and reliability such as the Government, professional services and corporations like NASA<\/a> reside happily with Huddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuddle very much started up around the era of digital transformation in enterprise business. This was quite a few years back now, but businesses are quite slow to move through this transformation. We showcase the benefits of working collaboratively in a digital way and providing solutions to the problems that people have, which as a result helps them through this transition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Huddle\u2019s product has bridged the gap in communication and content management in enterprise business by creating a product which people actually enjoy using. So last week we visited their UX design team; Bauke van Gameren, Alex Rose, Rosana Castano and Mayuri Patel at their headquarters in London. They tell me that as a team of four they work in fairly generalist UX roles but each have areas of specialism. Between them they execute on a broad spectrum of UX disciplines and draw on each other, utilising all of their qualities as best they can.<\/p>\n