Posts by Simon Willans

Engage takes on The 2.6 Challenge

We’re going to do our own take on the 2.6 challenge and give our charities a little bit extra during these tough times.

The mobile web is broken - but it doesn’t have to be

The state of the mobile web, from a user experience point of view, is largely broken; page weights are high, adverts fill our screens left, right and centre, and information consumption is generally more cumbersome than it needs to be.

Announcing our new Elympics charities

As we enter the fourth year of our Elympics campaign, we’ve freshened things up a bit by selecting two new worthy causes.

4 time-saving Sass functions you should be using

When CSS preprocessors arrived on the scene they were a breath of fresh air and provided us with a suite of incredibly useful abilities way above those included in ‘vanilla’ CSS. Over the years, the UX team at Engage have developed a library of functions and mixins which we use on a daily basis. Here are some of our favourites.

Code in the Dark 2018

More smoke, more lasers, and more heavy music as Engage attempts to take the Code in the Dark trophy for a third year in a row.

EM vs REM vs PX – Why you shouldn’t “just use pixels”

You’re wrong, there is a fold