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:

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Work Life Balance : Balancing profession and private life

In our job interviews with potential future employees we have a running gag: “At Factorial everyone works flexibly and remotely, not only when the heating meter stops by”. It is important to us that every employee is given the opportunity to integrate his/her family situa...

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February 27, 2024 : How to approach UX and UI Design

There are numerous web pages out there giving advice for what to consider when talking about good user experience and meaningful user interfaces. It actually got to the point where it is hard to wrap your head around all the different opinions existing out there.

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February 5, 2024 : A weekend dedicated to Drupal CMS

For years, the last weekend in January has been a special one for the worldwide community behind the CMS system Drupal: The Global Contribution Weekend. Factorial has been a major contributor to the Drupal community for many years, so we hosted our own hybrid Global Contributi...

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January 16, 2024 : A short introduction into phabalicious

Phabalicious helps developers in their daily live to interact with their projects. For example setting it up locally and get it running, getting data from a remote instance, inspect a remote instance, etc. 

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July 27, 2023 : Drupal Developer Days 2023

Drupal Developer Days is one of the most important industry events of the year for the European Drupal community. Factorial attended this year’s edition of the event in Vienna and contributed to the programme with several presentations.

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January 12, 2023 : Award for being a family friendly company

We at Factorial have been awarded with the ‘Hamburger Familiensiegel’ for being a family friendly company. The award was given by the Hamburg Senate, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts.

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December 13, 2022 : How I became a frontend developer in one year

This article is about my first steps into the world of web development. If you are considering changing careers into the IT world, or have already decided to do so but don’t know where to start, I hope this helps.

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November 24, 2022 : Drupal JSON-API Params (DJAP)

This post is for JavaScript developers working on a decoupled site using Drupal CMS’s JSON-API. I as the maintainer of the drupal-jsonapi-params (DJAP2 for short) want to demonstrate how the library solves code readabil...

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October 20, 2022 : New dates for the Drupal User Group Hamburg

The pandemic has put an end to many Drupal User Group events around the world. We at Factorial, like many others, miss the regular check-in with the community, which is why we will be reviving the User Group Hamburg with a recurring meetup, starting next week.

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October 11, 2022 : Takeaways from unFIXcon 2022

My impressions from taking part in the first conference about unFIX – a promising framework for organizational design from Jurgen Appelo.

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