Expertise

What we’ve learnt along the way.

Over a thousand successful projects and a full pipeline — we’ve accumulated a wealth of experience and insights on strategy and design, work processes and technology. The blog reveals what we’ve learned:

User Experience Design : UX research: analytical thinking meets intuition

Determining the needs of a website’s target group requires not only analytical thinking, but also a keen sense of user behavior. This is where UX research comes into play.

Development Operations : Why you need DevOps in your team

Developers working on client projects are taking care of numerous tasks. When you think the list gets shorter, new things are added at the bottom. What is there to do in order to provide an infrastructure that lets them tackle their issues? There is an administrative aspe...

Illustration of DevOps: Collaboration, Automation, and Integration in Software Development Processes.

November 16, 2022 : Splash Award for best Drupal project

After 2 years of pandemic restrictions, the latest edition of the Splash Awards Germany and Austria took place at our office. Not only were we able to host the event and invite all participants to Hamburg, we also won an Award in the category education for our project dpa-Fact...

Splash Awards 2022 ceremony, where Factorial won for best Drupal project with dpa Factify e-learning.

Sustainable software : Sustainable backend web development

Anyone who operates a web presence today should think about ideas to run it in a more sustainable way. But what measures are there in the backend development?

Frontend Development : Building towards a reusable, modular web: iFrames and Web Components

With the introduction of Web Components and the promise of “reusable and encapsulated” functionality, what then does the future hold for iFrame technology?

A colourful stack of different Lego bricks and characters.

Accessible Websites : Tackling the European Accessibility Act (EAA)

In 2019 the European Union had signed off the European Accessibility Act (EAA) which requires providers of certain websites and other products to guarantee accessibility of their websites and products until June 28th 2025. In this post, we want to answer some ques...

JavaScript Feature Temporal : JavaScript Date Troubles Solved: A Look at Temporal

Struggling with JavaScript date issues? Learn how the new Temporal API simplifies date and time handling in JavaScript.

November 16, 2023 : Splash Awards winner 2023: Occhio and Factorial

We are delighted to announce that Factorial and Occhio have won the Splash Award 2023 in the category Enterprise International for the Occhio Website Relaunch. This award is a testament to Occhio’s philosophy ‘Joy of Use’. We took an innovative approach to the usability and jo...

Factorial has won a Splash Award 2023 in the Healthcare category : Splash Awards 2023 winner: Boehringer Ingelheim and Factorial

Factorial has won a Splash Award 2023 in the Healthcare category on behalf of our esteemed client Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health for our project ‘Learning Portal for Veterinary Specialists Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health’. This award is not only a testament to our great...

Winning team from Factorial holding up their Splash Award and certification at Splash Awards Germany and Austria 2023 at Manufaktur Mannheim, Germany.

October 5, 2021 : Developing and testing web components

This blog is a follow up from my previous article “Custom elements with Vue Reactivity”. Here I will be sharing my thoughts on the challenges I faced setting up development and unit testing environments, while not forgetting about accessibility concerns for a Web Components pr...