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You want to make a great user experience for your app and website, but you’re not a designer – where do you begin? In this article I’m going to: Clarify…

Alistair Power

December 5, 2019

At DabApps we’re conscious of the impact we have on society. We minimize our carbon footprint by hosting our services using one of the most sustainable cloud services, AWS. Furthermore,…

Narani van Laarhoven

November 15, 2019

How do you survive a 12k trek over the South Downs on a crisp October day? Simple. You employ the services of Pete Kelly, genial expert of the outdoors, who…

Kirsty Levett

October 9, 2019

At DabApps, we are enthusiastic customers of Heroku, a cloud-based platform-as-a-service company. If you commission us to build you a web application, or any system that includes a backend server…

Jamie Matthews

August 19, 2019

Django’s object-relational mapper (ORM) is a huge part of the reason for the framework’s massive success. The ORM makes talking to databases easy by abstracting away the details of connections,…

Jamie Matthews

March 27, 2019

This post is about how we can take inspiration from cognitive psychology in order to write better code. It gets a little technical in places (especially in the examples), but…Programming and Cognitive Load

Jamie Matthews

January 21, 2019

How we engineer our applications. Keeping up with the latest technologies in the rapidly changing world of web development can be challenging. You hear terms such as “single-page application”, “API”…

Narani van Laarhoven

January 14, 2019

Photography by Thomas Klee Welcome to DabApps, Cardiff! We are really excited to enter a new phase in the growth of DabApps in 2018, as we expand our business opportunities…

Chris Palk

July 9, 2018

A New Look Since our beginnings, way back in 2010, we have worked hard to build awareness of the DabApps brand. It’s important to us that our potential customers and…

Chris Palk

March 14, 2018

Bespoke Emojis are increasingly popular with many brands, social media and messaging platforms creating their own emoticons for users to share. The fashion industry definitely hasn’t missed this trend and…

Catrina Baker-Bassett

October 16, 2017