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As someone who relies on the health of the online retail market to pay his rent every month, I’m probably not the first person you’d expect to welcome a forecasted slowdown in the annual growth in online sales. However, Verdict have recently announced that this growth is currently in the neighbourhood of 30% which, whilst still robust, ...

Reading through the blogs on this site, you'll notice a good few mentions of UCD - User Centred Design - as a design practice that we're pretty hot on. Although my colleagues on the Interactive Media teams are much more qualified than I am to go into detail about it, core to the technique is ensuring that the users and their needs are clearly ...

It's heartening, in this day and age, to see numerous top-flight retailers making significant investment, both in terms of cash and resource, in their online business. Recalling conversations which took place in the early days of this century, when a website was often seen as little more than an indulgence on the part of the marketing ...

When a retailer's business hits the rocks, everyone and his dog has an opinion. It's a rare industry whose dirty laundry is so publicly aired as that of high street retail. The announcement earlier this month that Ethel Austin was to go into administration, with the attendant loss of 181 head office jobs and 33 store closures, provoked a fair bit ...