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Big News!!!

Kobot is excited to announce that we have joined Edmonton-based creative agency, Sticks & Stones! Over the years, we’ve had many opportunities to work with Sticks & Stones, and have grown to deeply admire and respect their inventiveness and creativity. We are excited to combine their award-winning design, filmmaking, and animation skills with what we… Read more

Refreshing your cache

If you have ever worked on a website project with us, you know that by the end of the Build phase we invite you behind the digital curtain so that you can provide feedback before the website launches. But there may come a time when, despite requesting changes and being assured that they were made,… Read more

Newsletters! Signed, sealed, delivered right to your inbox

As businesses have been forced to adapt to the new post-COVID-19 lifestyle, many are pivoting to be online (or more online). If you’ve been doing plenty of online orders lately, you may find yourself in possession of a huge cache of emails and wondering what to do with them. Though it might be obvious, newsletters… Read more

How to get yourself on the web quickly (when in a crisis)

Last week we put together a blog to help those in our community that have had to move their business online fast. We went over how to get yourself set up, which platforms we’d recommend, and how you can get things running over time. Then we got to thinking—what do you do if you’re a… Read more

E-commerce is for everyone

As an office, we’ve been trying to brainstorm ways we can help ease the stress felt by our colleagues, clients, and friends as the world works to contain COVID-19. With everyone being asked to stay home and non-essential businesses told to shut their doors, it seems like a good time for businesses to start thinking… Read more

What it takes to write a website

It’s happening! You’re finally revamping your company’s website—or maybe creating it for the first time! There will be kickoff meetings, interviews, and then the “good stuff” can finally begin: Logos! Colour schemes! Design!! We know it’s all very exciting—we’re excited too! But we want to put this READ ME tidbit here before we get too… Read more

Are we UX-ing yet?

What is User Experience (UX) Design? An amazing discipline? A buzzword, catch-all, synonym for usability? Or… according to a sassy Medium article… a joke? For us, UX design is a process that ensures a product (in our case, a website) has been built and tested to satisfy the needs of its users. UX is not… Read more

Are wireframes an endangered species?

A short while ago, product designer Sean Dexter wrote an article entitled “Wireframes are becoming less relevant — and that’s a good thing.” Though wireframes are uniformly accepted as a crucial part of the design process which focus attention on usability instead of aesthetics, Dexter argues this is something we should reconsider. In the past, we used… Read more

Small Brands Do Best When They Do Their Own Thing

Every time I see a small brand launch into an ill-considered social media engagement campaign I get a sore feeling in my gut. I’m not talking about big budget, Super Bowl-sized campaigns, but those small, simple tweets intended to engage followers and start a conversation like “Tell us your favourite experience with our brand.” These… Read more