Expertise

What we’ve learnt along the way.

Over a thousand successful projects and a full pipeline — we’ve accumulated a wealth of experience and insights on strategy and design, work processes and technology. The blog reveals what we’ve learned:

November 16, 2022 : Splash Award for best Drupal project

After 2 years of pandemic restrictions, the latest edition of the Splash Awards Germany and Austria took place at our office. Not only were we able to host the event and invite all participants to Hamburg, we also won an Award in the category education for our project dpa-Fact...

Splash Awards 2022 ceremony, where Factorial won for best Drupal project with dpa Factify e-learning.

Sustainable software : Sustainable backend web development

Anyone who operates a web presence today should think about ideas to run it in a more sustainable way. But what measures are there in the backend development?

Frontend Development : Building towards a reusable, modular web: iFrames and Web Components

With the introduction of Web Components and the promise of “reusable and encapsulated” functionality, what then does the future hold for iFrame technology?

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JavaScript Feature Temporal : JavaScript Date Troubles Solved: A Look at Temporal

Struggling with JavaScript date issues? Learn how the new Temporal API simplifies date and time handling in JavaScript.

November 16, 2023 : Splash Awards winner 2023: Occhio and Factorial

We are delighted to announce that Factorial and Occhio have won the Splash Award 2023 in the category Enterprise International for the Occhio Website Relaunch. This award is a testament to Occhio’s philosophy ‘Joy of Use’. We took an innovative approach to the usability and jo...

Factorial has won a Splash Award 2023 in the Healthcare category : Splash Awards 2023 winner: Boehringer Ingelheim and Factorial

Factorial has won a Splash Award 2023 in the Healthcare category on behalf of our esteemed client Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health for our project ‘Learning Portal for Veterinary Specialists Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health’. This award is not only a testament to our great...

October 5, 2021 : Developing and testing web components

This blog is a follow up from my previous article “Custom elements with Vue Reactivity”. Here I will be sharing my thoughts on the challenges I faced setting up development and unit testing environments, while not forgetting about accessibility concerns for a Web Components pr...

May 6, 2024 : Balancing profession and private life

In our job interviews with potential future employees we have a running gag: “At Factorial everyone works flexibly and remotely, not only when the heating meter stops by”. It is important to us that every employee is given the opportunity to integrate his/her family situa...

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February 27, 2024 : How to approach UX and UI Design

There are numerous web pages out there giving advice for what to consider when talking about good user experience and meaningful user interfaces. It actually got to the point where it is hard to wrap your head around all the different opinions existing out there.

Image showing the Factorial lettering and each letter portrays another ux or ui principle

February 5, 2024 : A weekend dedicated to Drupal CMS

For years, the last weekend in January has been a special one for the worldwide community behind the CMS system Drupal: The Global Contribution Weekend. Factorial has been a major contributor to the Drupal community for many years, so we hosted our own hybrid Global Contributi...