Welcome to Springlabs
This is a space for researching and experimenting with self-driven projects that have the potential to create positive impact. We take 'what if' questions a step further, bringing our impact ideas to life and sharing the discoveries we make along the way with you.
FEATURED POST
How to become an automatic winner
A test engineer talks through the process of building and debugging an automated test to win the perfect circle game.
FEATURED POST
How to become an automatic winner
A test engineer talks through the process of building and debugging an automated test to win the perfect circle game.
LATEST POSTS
Generating pixels with code
We've been hard at work on other lab projects so we decided to create a grid generator to automate the process of creating thumbnails for our blog posts.
Reducing the carbon footprint of your website from a FEDs perspective
Websites are becoming more sophisticated. Bigger infrastructures, more storage ability, and faster delivery methods often equal more electricity consumption, and a bigger carbon footprint. We’ve been researching ways to cut down a website’s carbon emissions.
Touchless: a new way to connect with museum interactives
Typically, when building interactive displays we have to solve many complex UX problems. In the wake of a global pandemic, there’s now a new challenge to consider — can interactive touchscreens cater to a COVID-19 conscious audience?
Pacific payments part 2: designing for trust
Trust is not something that can be gained in a single moment, it’s something that must be built and sustained throughout the entire experience. This is part 2 of our exploration into this important issue.
Plugins for Figma
With our design team trying out Figma, we learned that Figma supports custom plugins. The Springlabs team got curious about how much work would be involved in creating one ourselves.
Bridging ideas and reality with ProtoPie
Creating rich interactive prototypes has often been a struggle for designers who can't code or don't have access to a developer. We explored using ProtoPie to create highly interactive prototypes without touching a line of code.
Pacific payments part 1: background
Payments from Pacific workers living in New Zealand are a key source of income for families in many Pacific Islands. The transaction cost of these payments is amongst the highest in the world. This is part 1 of our exploration into this important issue.