Insights

Latest thinking.

Contributions from buzzing minds across the agency. Here’s where our geekiness comes out to play.

A key Kyan moment: Becoming a Certified B Corporation

Kyan is a now a certified B Corporation, joining the worldwide movement committed to using business as a force for good.

Nick Linnell 4 min read

Tracking our approach to technology exploration with the Kyan Tech Radar

Whilst technology clearly excites us and drives us forward, we needed a more formalised way to track what we are using, what’s emerging and what th...

Simon Hardy 7 min read

How we use customer experience to help our clients' clients

One thing that many agencies of our size overlook is customer experience, or CX. I’ve spent a great deal of time (and my training budget) sharpenin...

Duncan Robertson 4 min read

Using Swift/SwiftUI to build a modern macOS Menu Bar app

How Duncan, one of our Senior Software Engineers, used Swift to dust of an old Kyan project, bringing our Menu Bar application back to live.

Michael Hogg 5 min read

Why this simple engineering practice is so valuable

Recently I’ve been thinking about a particular practice that I’ve found extremely beneficial throughout my career – not only to me, but to the deve...

Gavin Shinfield 10 min read

What does a Chief Sustainability Officer do?

Over the last few years, sustainability has grown to become a key part of our values at Kyan. As a technology agency, we have a responsibility, not...

Amy Johnstone 3 min read

Kyan’s Carmen Lopez scoops a win at the 2021 Jammy Awards

At the end of last year, a few of us headed up to Electric Shuffle in London for the 2021 Jammy Awards. Organised by cloud hosting company, Just Af...