Insights
Take a look at the latest insights from the Discovery Design team and stay up to date with everything relating to: web design, development, branding, and marketing.
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Web Design
Essential Web Design Trends To Try In 2017
Web design is constantly evolving, each year new trends are born, others disappear and many just continue to tick by. In 2016 flat design became the...
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Marketing
Marketing & Memes: A Match Made In Hell?
Memes are a massive part of the online experience, especially on social media channels. Memes have quickly become a huge part of the internet, used...
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Web Design
4 Common Ecommerce Problems You May Face and How To Overcome Them
Running an ecommerce store is no simple task, there’s a lot to think about, from your website design and marketing, through to dealing with...
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Marketing
You’ll Never Believe These Crazy Reasons Why Clickbait Is Killing Your Content Marketing!
Love it or hate it clickbait has become a huge deal in recent years, becoming yet another tool used by marketers and businesses to try...
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Web Design
Proven Ways Your Ecommerce Store Can Drive Sales
With more people shopping online every year, selling your products and services online can be an effective way for your business to increase product awareness...
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Web Design
Conversion Rate Optimisation in 2017: Our Top Predictions
The constant development and increasing competition of online stores, businesses and apps, has forced brands to be even more creative in their attempts to drive...
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Web Design
How Your Ecommerce Business Can Survive The January Sales Slump
While the Christmas period can be fun, exciting and busy for many businesses, with more visiting browsing your site, more sales opportunities and with more...
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Web Design
User Interface in 2017: What We Can Expect
The technology and web world is fast moving and constantly changing, meaning it can be hard to keep up to date with the constant development...
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Marketing
5 Great Ideas For Driving Sales This New Year
After the busy Christmas period it’s likely that in the new year you’re going to see a slight drop in traffic, leads and...
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Web Design
Ecommerce Website Design Trends You Should Know for 2017
2017 is in sight, new year is nearly upon us and with it comes new trends and changes within the design world. Website trends evolve every...
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Marketing
Why Your Business Needs To Be Online In 2017
Small business owners often make the mistake of thinking that they need to keep their business small in order to keep sustainable results, for many...
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Marketing
How Video Marketing Can Benefit Your Business In 2017
Content marketing has become increasingly more visual over recent years, from infographics, to gifs through to videos wherever you go you’re likely to find...
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Branding
The Art To Loving Emojis: Everything Your Brand Needs To Know About Using Emojis
Emojis are everywhere right now, on our mobiles, on our social media, on clothing, they’re even being featured on homeware, while this new generation...
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Marketing
Actionable Ways You Can Turn Your Christmas Shoppers Into Year Round Customers [Updated]
The Christmas season is a pivotal moment for online businesses, not only is it the perfect time of year for increasing your traffic, sales and...
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Marketing
How To Plan A Successful Christmas Email Campaign
It’s officially December, Black Friday is behind us, Cyber Monday is out of the way, there’s no more distractions and nothing left between...
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Web Design
Christmas Ecommerce Tips: Boost Your Sales This Christmas
With just under a month to go until the big day there’s still plenty of time left to make the changes and improvements necessary...
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Marketing
Are Your Christmas Pay Per Click Ads Ready?
The Christmas season is quickly approaching and while you may be getting ready with you Christmas deals, landing pages and email marketing, there’s another...
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Marketing
Can You Deliver? Effective Christmas Shipping Tips To Get You Through The Season
As much as we might hate to admit it, Christmas is coming and with more and more shoppers retreating online to shop instead of the...
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Marketing
Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2018 – Everything You Need To Know
Over the last 5 years Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become two of the biggest shopping days of the year, not only in the USA...
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Marketing
Everything You Need To Know About Marketing To The Next Generation
In 2016 we’ve seen a huge focus on how brands and retailers should market to young audiences, particularly the 18-25 demographic, also known as ‘millennials...
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Web Design
5 Ways To Decorate Your Website For Christmas
It’s that time of year again, Christmas is creeping closer by the day and by now it’s likely you’ll have at least...
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Web Design
5 Important Characteristics of a Strong Business Website
Today, most businesses have a website because it allows them to reach a wider audience. However, you don’t just make a business website and...
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Marketing
5 Ways To Effectively Market To Older Audiences
When it comes to your marketing it can be easy to ignore older generations, with so much focus on the younger demographic, social media and...
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Web Design
5 Effective Ways To Optimise Your Payment Process
When it comes to your payment process you want to make it as easy as possible for your customers to pay for you items. Without...
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Web Design
5 Ways You Can Avoid Scary Website Design This Halloween
In the run-up to Halloween, you’ve probably seen plenty of websites embracing the Halloween spirit by adding plenty of themed graphics, banners and images...
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Web Design
5 Best Practices For Checkout Optimisation
Your checkout is the most important aspect of your ecommerce store, without a fully optimised checkout and checkout process you store could be in for...
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Marketing
SEO Trends You Need To Be Aware Of In 2017
The world of SEO is constantly and rapidly changing and as we quickly move towards 2017 it’s incredibly likely that we’re looking to see...
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Web Design
The Importance of Website Testing
If you want a successful online business then it’s likely you’ve paid for a well designed, thought out website that offers your customers...
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Web Design
5 Tips For Creating a Positive Customer Experience
These days consumers have more choice and more options of where to shop than ever before, no longer is shopping done solely on the high...
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Marketing
Multichannel Selling: 4 Ways To Increase Your Sales
The way in which businesses interact with customers continues to change, no longer do businesses rely on brick and mortar stores to increase sales, there...
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Web Design
The importance of great photography on your website
They say a photo can speak 1000 words, while you can invest in a beautiful website design, with carefully written content and seamless usability, if your...
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Marketing
5 actionable tips to drive back to school sales
Back to school season has proven to be an important time for online sellers. With so many students going back to school, sixth form and...
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Web Design
8 Biggest ecommerce mistakes
Starting an ecommerce store can be hard and there’s often a lot to learn. however just because you’re new to the world of...
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Web Design
A beginners guide to ecommerce: Everything you need to know!
With more people than ever shopping online, businesses need to invest in an online store in order to increase their reach and boost sales. Whether...
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Web Design
How you can build an effective sports ecommerce website!
Worldwide there are thousands of online sports websites ranging from sports clubs telling you about their team and their achievements, to sports ecommerce stores selling...
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Marketing
3 ways technology has changed the sports world
In recent times, technology has had a huge impact on almost every aspect of our society. There isn’t an industry out there which hasn...