Insights from the Symbiote team
Design systems maintain consistency while reducing effort
Senior developer Chris Kelly explains the benefits of software design systems in standardising an organisation’s assets, process and documentation.
Planning and executing larger engineering epics
How does a mid-sized development team execute large technical epics that consist of dozens of features? Senior developer, Chris Kelly, describes his approach.
Improving front-end performance for high-availability websites
Chris Kelly, our Senior Developer, gets technical about creating a scalable website that manages ultra-high loads and works for people with poor internet connections.
Could digital integration be a better solution than digital transformation?
Managing Director, Owen Windsor, explains the advantages of digital integration for organisations wanting to use data from legacy systems and other sources.
A tailor-made Search tool enables you to find information from a range of sources
A tailor-made Search tool can find information from a range of different datasets, explains Full Stack Developer, Max Chan.
How do you make online maps accessible so everyone has easy access to the same information?
Symbiote’s Front-End Developer, Kandice Stern, talks about the challenges and benefits of coding digital maps for accessibility.
Reduce costs by replacing separate iOS and Android apps with a progressive web app (PWA)
Chris Kelly, Symbiote’s Senior Developer, breaks down the benefits of a progressive web app (PWA) versus building and maintaining separate apps for Apple iOS and Android.
Sharing job-seeker assistance software makes sense for government departments
Owen Windsor, our Managing Director, describes how a job-seeker assistance software tool we created was easily modified for use by two government departments who served different clients.
What does your ideal dashboard or intranet look like?
Amanda Brown, our Head of Strategy & Projects talks about APIs and integrations, custom dashboards and intranets, and giving clients all the digital information they need in one place.
Front-end design is a balancing act
Chris James describes what a Front-end developer does and the ways in which his job is both creative and technical.