Insightful stories that revolve around technology, culture, and design

Building faster, scalable headless commerce sites using Drupal and Next.js.

The Decoupled Menus initiative is one headless approach where Drupal provides an API for the menu of a website and the chosen frontend technology is responsible for the rendering of such menu. We, at QED42, have chosen NextJS - a Server Side Rendering and Static Generation framework of React as the frontend to pre-render the menu.

In this podcast, we unpack Devyani's attempt to refute a few prejudices we carry when it comes to design, highlight the ‘uncool practices’, and how we as practitioners can improve design practice, design mindfully, and be more responsible towards our decision making while we approach problems penetrating experiences, services, and products.

Applying empathy to understand user needs and improve product usability.

QED42 is proud to announce that we have been named as the number 1 Drupal development firm in India in the latest Clutch Leader Matrix!

Defines the importance of QA participation during Sprint Zero to ensure smoother releases.

Positive testing is to check if the system is working as expected but negative testing is used to determine how the system handles the unexpected behaviour.

Website performance tuning through caching, image optimisation, and efficient code practices.

Personas enable decision-making at the highest level. They are highly effective and guide the whole UX design process. They enable a subtle but extremely important difference between understanding how users would interact with the interface than assuming how users must interact with the interface.