Issue #8
November 2024

November at Amperative

Inside the Amperative studio


Happy November!

This month has seen our first snow and the much-anticipated studio Christmas decorations (the big reveal in the December newsletter).


So, here's a glimpse into what's been happening in the Amperative studio this month. Enjoy some sneak peeks at projects, discover what’s sparked our creativity, and some interesting snippets that caught our attention.


I hope you enjoy it,

Emily

What we've been enjoying this month

What dinner?

What Dinner? is a meal planner for couples and families to take the stress out of deciding what to eat each night, we are big fans!

Splitwise

Suzi recently used this app and has been raving about it ever since. With Christmas just around the corner, Splitwise is a great tool to help split the cost amongst everyone.

Project Spotlight


This month, we developed the Rewild an Acre page for Pangea Trust. Looking for a meaningful gift for someone who loves elephants and conservation? Every donation includes a personalised certificate.

This month on LinkedIn

Pete shared about what we do differently since we merged.

We got asked recently… 

It’s hard to believe it was 3 years ago that we launched our new brand, Amperative, following a merge of Worthers and Hullo Creative. We have evolved that brand this year, however recently we were asked ‘what do you do differently now since this merge?’

It was a great question and got me thinking, so whilst not a full list, here are a few of my observations

A large growth in our UX work

Bringing together years of experience in both design and development capability provided the environment to accelerate our UX and UI offerings. We created a new UX lead role and this team has seen impressive growth. We have had the great privilege of applying our skills and expertise in this area to some amazing projects and the feedback we have received has been incredibly positive and encouraging. 
 
Broader and more complete product offerings 

By combining the best of both worlds, we have been able to provide a more complete end to end product covering discovery and consultancy, through to brand, UX, design and development. This worked really well when we helped clients turn their vision into a successful highly rated mobile app.


Improved support for our clients

Our team has grown over the last 3 years and as a result, we have managed to strengthen our service areas so that we can provide better support and confidence to our clients. Our project management, sales, support and capability have improved and we’ve adapted our processes so that projects aren’t dependent on one person but involve multiple team members so we are able to cover holiday periods as well as unplanned events, like sickness.


Shared leadership

Our leadership team has worked hard at investing in relationships so that we can genuinely support each other but also provide room for each other's strengths to shine. This in turn has helped to better serve the wider team and develop our shared culture of valuing people.


Healthy team

One of our early concerns was how the team would come together and integrate. To help with this we had a team day, invested in tools to understand each other better and worked on our shared values. We also encouraged eating together at lunch and reconfigured our office (before moving to a new purpose-built office). All to say, it really feels like one team and we’ve never looked back. 

I’m looking forward to seeing what the next few years bring!


Not connected with Pete on LinkedIn?

Team days and trips away

This month, we took some time out as a team to explore working better together, as well as joining a whole host of clients and friends at Digital Day in London.

Helpful link

Are you a Slack user? We're big fans of an emoji for every occasion, so this has definitely come in handy.

Playing through the Amperative speakers

Sam (otherwise known as DJ Bolts) has been getting us in the Christmas spirit already with this Christmas playlist.

This month's most used emoji: 🥶