It is my special pleasure to introduce our newest team member, Tuğçe Nur Taş. She joined us in October 2022 as a front-end developer and technical project manager.Tuğçe Nur is an organizational talent that has a bird’s-eye view of projects, which allows her to keep them on track. Combined with her expertise in web technologies, …
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This year, we already met at the beginning of December for Christmas dinner. We decided to get together in the Italian part of Switzerland in Locarno, where we spent a good time in our newly formed team.For us, planning a Christmas dinner with a remote team means spending several days together each time, as we …
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It is with pleasure that I introduce our new team member for our German office. Jeff Chi joined our team in September 2022 as a web developer.With his education as a media designer, bachelor’s degree in design, and several years of agency experience as a web developer, Jeff brings a unique perspective to our team. …
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WordPress is constantly evolving at an incredible rate. The 5.9 release at the beginning of 2022 brought one of the biggest changes – Full Site Editing – and gives users more possibilities than ever. We present what we consider to be the most important new features and show how we have used them with our …
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Our belated annual Christmas dinner took place at the end of February. This year we met in Switzerland to get to know Lucerne and our new office there. And because we were all in the same place, it was the prefect time for a company photo shoot.Planning a retreat in times of a pandemic continues …
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Just in time for the new year, we have got ourselves a new logo. Certain people will have noticed this already, since we have integrated the new logo on our website and social media channels. I would like to tell you how it came about and what thoughts we had.Brand design sprintIn late 2020, we …
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A stricter data protection law will apply in Switzerland from the beginning of 2023 at the latest. Therefore, every website operator should inform themselves about the new regulations.Summary of the article, which was published on Cyon as a guest post by Martin Steiger and Data Protection Partners.Use of dataYou should keep an up-to-date list of …
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Our international team has not been able to meet completely for over two years. The restrictions of the pandemic have stood in our way so far. The newest team members, including myself, have not yet had the opportunity to meet all of us in person. In August 2021, we planned a retreat in a villa …
Continue reading A team retreat off-the-gridV/A – Various Artists is an online magazine for cultural professionals initiated by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, which features an artful design and, despite its individuality, can be conveniently edited from within the Pro Helvetia Multisite.The online blog promotes exchange between international cultural professionals, actively supporting their ideas and work, and sensing contemporary …
Continue reading A new online magazine about artThanks to digitalisation, we use less paper and business trips are replaced by online meetings. That is why the use of the internet is often not mentioned first in connection with sustainability. But according to the Greenpeace study Clicking Green, the tech sector was already responsible for around 7% of global energy consumption back in …
Continue reading Energy-efficient WebsitesOur company culture was not extremely affected by the pandemic. As a well-established remote team, we didn’t have to rearrange ourselves during the lockdown. What we did notice, however, was the distance and the fact that our team is international. As a remote team, we are extremely dependent on meeting in person from time to …
Continue reading Team Retreat during a pandemicSince the creation of the WordPress Block Editor in 2018, we have been equipping all our customer projects with the new editor. In this article we show the advantages of the new editor and why a change makes sense.What is the Block Editor?The WordPress Block Editor was established in 2018 as part of the “Gutenberg” …
Continue reading From the Classic- to the Block-EditorThe latest version of WordPress, which is called “Eckstine” in honor of jazz singer Billy Eckstine, has been available for download or update since August 11, 2020. We give you a short overview of the new features and what we have contributed to version 5.5.Our contribution to WordPress Version 5.5Created by open source developers from …
Continue reading WordPress Version 5.5 “Eckstine” is now availableWe are happy to welcome Corina in our team! As a frontend developer Corina will support us and our customers in bringing sophisticated designs alive to the browsers.In May 2019, we decided to try a new hiring way, at least for us, and placed a job ad on freshjobs in the classic way. We described …
Continue reading Corina is required!Almost a year ago, in the article “We Are Hiring – as conventional as it can be” we wrote about our plans to search for a new team member for the first time in a more or less conventional way. During this for us rather new recruitment process, we got to know some interesting and …
Continue reading Virtual conventional recruitmentIf you follow me on Instagram you would have probably noticed that I have been recently spending a lot of my spare-time on my mountain bike. I was invited to attend a VIP Event at the Santa Cruz Bicycles Factory in Santa Cruz and decided to extend the trip and spend a couple of weeks …
Continue reading Working in a Co-Living Space in Santa Cruz, CaliforniaAt the beginning of this year, it was time again for our yearly retreat. This time we went to Zermatt. It had been a few months since we had last met and as a distributed team we have only been in contact with each other via online tools like Slack or Zoom. To compensate the …
Continue reading New Year’s trip 2020What is the difference between the architecture of a traditional and a headless content management system? How do we deal with this topic in the conception and development of our projects?The traditional wayThe classic content management approach not only uses the content management system (CMS) to manipulate and store content, but also includes functionality through …
Continue reading CMS – traditional or headless?Company Retreat & WordPress ConferenceIt has almost become a tradition attending the yearly WordCamp Europe, which we did this year too. We met a few days before the conference in Berlin to work together on a few tasks, laugh and of course to eat well.Our WeekBerlinWe spent the whole week in Berlin. The first part …
Continue reading We are required in BerlinOur team is at WordCamp Europe in Berlin and this article covers the contents of my Workshop from Saturday. The goal is to motivate developers and designers to get started with user testing. Even if the project is on a tight budget, we should never dismiss testing our work on an actual target group.WHYTo run …
Continue reading Do it yourself – the User Testing ToolboxHaving newly moved to Basel in September last year, I had to find new places to work from. As at required we work remotely, I am not forced to go to one of our offices. Each of us works from their home office or has an office in their city.Working from home the whole week …
Continue reading Working remotely in BaselWe keep our team as small and efficient as possible. But the time has come to extend our team with a new member. That’s why we are in recruiting mode and this time we are choosing the conventional process. Since the founding of the required gmbh in 2013, we have grown slowly but steadily – …
Continue reading We Are Hiring – as conventional as it can beSince we are a remote company, everyone is free to choose wherever they want to work from. In my case, that’s mostly my home office. I’ll share some tips which help me getting work done, while balancing the whole life-part.tldr; Dress for the office, focus, take breaks, eat lunch, meet friends.My home office situationI have …
Continue reading On working from homeToday we’re happy to announce the public release of Traduttore 3.0.Traduttore is our open-source WordPress plugin that allows you to host your own WordPress.org-style translation API for your WordPress projects. We use it for our custom plugins and themes for our clients.In this version we focused on making the plugin more modular which gave us …
Continue reading Traduttore 3.0At the end of the year, the whole required crew gets together for our annual Christmas trip. Since we are a distributed team, this is one of the few occasions where we get to spend quality time together in-person. After going to Copenhagen in 2017, we settled for a warmer location this time: Lisbon, Portugal.Most …
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