Apps and other creations
We help companies harness the potential of the web. We have worked with the BBC, the Science Museum, the Guardian and social enterprises, winning awards from Yahoo, BBC, Sony, Hewlett-Packard and UnLtd.
A case study, Dharmafly’s series of apps for BBC World Service.
Alongside our public-facing products for clients, we create open source software and initiate community activities and workshops.
Read more about what we’re doing, on our blog.
Data Visualisation
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On Our Radar
An interactive visualisation of crowdsourced citizen reporting in Sierra Leone, using Pablo, our open source tool to create interactive graphics. -
Southwark Circle’s Social Impact
A visualisation using real-time data from Participle’s Southwark Circle welfare project to track the life changes of members within a real-world community. -
Government spending data, for The Guardian
Exposing the hidden stories from the UK Treasury’s historic release of public spending data, produced for The Guardian. Read more -
Backr
Backr is a real-world peer support network for people moving into a new career. We built a rich visual approach for people to join.
Collaboration Tools
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Drum
Drum is a realtime telephony web app created with and for NetDev. People use Drum for conference calls, group meetings and private file sharing. Its responsive design adapts to desktop browsers, tablets and smartphones. Drum is built with Node.js, Backbone.js and HTML5 technologies like WebRTC. -
BrightWorks
A visually immersive task-management app to help volunteers perform tiny tasks for charities, using our open source engine “Tasket”. Read more
Widgets
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Press Association’s Winter Olympics
A suite of embedded widgets using realtime data from the 2013 Winter Olympics, which Press Association distributed on international media websites. It uses our open source widget libraries, Sqwidget and Cleanslate. -
BBC World Service widget
Dharmafly’s widget for BBC World Service displays news articles, audio and video from around the world.Each one can be personalised for 12 different languages and multiple global regions, and installed on the desktop or embedded on WordPress blogs, Facebook, iGoogle, Netvibes and Opera. Read more
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International Tree Foundation widget
A little widget for International Tree Foundation sponsors to embed on their websites, showing how many trees they have donated. The widgets automatically update when new trees are planted. -
MiShorts widget
The MiShorts widget displays the latest short films from directors on the MiShorts.
Mapping
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BBC Bangladesh River Journey
This microsite for BBC World Service follows 40 journalists on a boat trip through Bangladesh to track climate change. A cyclone hit the area during the trip. An interactive map shows blog posts, tweets and photos made en route.The website won major industry awards for its innovative use of social media and visualisation. Read more
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EastHampshire.org
We created interactive maps of community events, news and groups for East Hampshire’s website. Read more -
BBC Talking America
A live BBC World Service crew travelled on a bus across America to seek the views of everyday Americans, in advance of the historic 2008 presidential elections.Our microsite combines the BBC’s photos and interviews on an interactive map of the route. Read more
Open Source
You can download our free open source code, tools and applications at github.com/dharmafly and github.com/premasagar.
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Pablo
Pablo is a small JavaScript library for SVG, the web standard for vector graphics. It is used for vector-based interfaces, art, games and visualisations.
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Noodle
Noodle is a Node.js tool to query and scrape data from web documents. It can gather data from HTML web pages, JSON, XML, RSS and Atom feeds.
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Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a Node.js tool to determine a person’s public network of social website profiles. Read more
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Widget tools
Sqwidget and Cleanslate are two of our tools for developers to create and distribute third-party web widgets.
Community
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Async
We created Brighton’s popular JavaScript developers’ meetup group, “Async”, for local knowledge sharing and collaboration. Twice per month since 2009, we’ve had an incredible line-up of talks, workshops, demo nights and hackathons.
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Lab for the Recently Possible
Lab for the Recently Possible is our experimental, creative workspace in Brighton, UK. Over 2 years, we held community ‘Lab Days’ to learn new technologies, taught non-coders to code in ‘Coding For Humans‘ and other workshops, hosted interns and curated a mini oasis in the city.
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The Wild School
The Wild School was a co-created school of everything, held at the Lab for 7 weeks in Summer 2013. Anyone could teach anything – and they did, from monoprinting to singing, accounting, lego, business startups and everything in between.
Museum installations
Science Museum’s Atmosphere
We designed a concept interface for the touchscreen interface at the Science Museum’s major gallery on climate science, ‘Atmosphere‘.
Monitoring & lobbying
WASHwatch
A grassroots tool for WaterAid, Unicef, Oxfam and Save the Children to report how governments around the world keep their commitments on water, sanitation & hygiene.
Citizenship
GOV.UK
A huge re-imagining of the one-stop website for all UK Government services. We helped develop a framework for users to step through questions to reach a simple answer, e.g. How much is my maternity pay?.
Art & Culture
Artfinder
We built a collection of components for the iPhone, iPad and Android apps of this innovative art discovery service (more).
Web Strategy
National Deaf Children’s Society
We worked with NDCS to help them more effectively use blogging, social networks and web tools to connect their distributed volunteers.
Get in touch
We’d love to hear about your project. Please get in touch if you think we can help.