Big Lemon

10/07/2024

The strawberries are ready for picking here in the Big Lemon HQ mountains. Jams and cakes are being made, and strawberries are being shared with folk far and wide.

In our latest edition of Tech With Purpose Happenings, Summer Time 2024, we share snippets (alas not our homegrown strawberries) from various peeps and resources that inspire us, get our brains going, ignite something in us.

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12/06/2024

We love experimenting and getting to grips with complicated tech. Many a happy dance occurs when we overcome a tricky bug, something that could have been niggling at us for days 💃

So when we come up with snazzy solutions we can't help but think others might be experiencing the same, and that by sharing our problems and solutions we may help others.

This inspired our latest blog:

AWS Cognito developers - have you ever tried exporting all users in a User Pool to a CSV file? Ouch.

Owen has explained our approach and solutions in our Big Lemon Development Blog which you can find via our website:

https://biglemon.co.uk/blog/aws-cognito-developer-have-you-ever-tried-exporting-all-users-in-a-user-pool

04/06/2024

Help us test our new Cultivating Wellbeing app 🌻

We have partnered with the awesome Thrive Charity to create a new app to support more people through gardening and time in nature.

See our blog for more details and how to join the pilot 🍋

We are launching a new app to support more people through gardening and time in nature.

03/04/2024

We got out & about to do our bit for the environment during B Corp awareness month this year.

Find out more in our latest blog: https://bit.ly/3vJCCzC

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We got out and about to do our bit for the environment

18/03/2024

March 2024 is B Corp awareness month. We have been out & about on a special mission...we will reveal more later this week 👀

We will always be a business that is a force for good, focusing on people & the planet 🌍

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11/03/2024

Last Friday students from Smallwood Primary School and Language Unit took on the role of product designers with us.

We user tested our co-created language learning tool with them.

We kick started this project four years ago at a NHS hackathon. We have collaborated with some fantastic organisations including City University, NIHR, St Georges University Hospital, The Turing Institute, and many individual professionals in the learning space that have huge passion for helping young people.

We hope this product will eventually be adopted & rolled out to many children, teachers, therapists, parents who desperately need it.

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30/01/2024

Our next game creation for CAFOD is due to be launched soon 🚀

We have been doing some user testing in prep for the big day.

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20/12/2023

As we unwind for the festive season we want to express our gratitude by saying a Big Thank-You to our ever-growing eco-system of people who continue to support us, who feel as strongly as we do about being a positive change in the world.

We have achieved so much this year & it wouldn't have been possible without our team of Lemon's who are super talented, full of heart & soul 💛

22/11/2023

We took a deep dive into Superchoir's processes, streamlining their systems, with as much smart automation as possible, enabling them to focus on running the business.

The case study is now live on our website: https://bit.ly/3sJQ599

BUT WAIT there is more.....our Owen shares the 'how we did it' journey in much more detail. This is a great insight in how we approach our Discovery Journey, it is a bespoke approach that we love doing.

Check it out here and buzz us if we can help you in a similar way 💛 https://bit.ly/3RbBgpu

21/11/2023

Excited for the happenings taking place at sustainability production summit at today

14/11/2023

We have gone on quite a journey to define the tech stack we have today - we will never stop learning & evolving.

We joined in to catch all the latest action at the Next.js CONF this month, to ensure we are clued up, in the know & preparing for what is to come...

Read our take on it all via our latest blog linked to our Big Lemon Dev space.

https://bit.ly/49DE5a6

08/11/2023

We are sending our well wishes to Mintys Gigguide, super sad to see it come to an end. We are proud of the product we created with them & so many talented creatives. The work lives on.

More on our product creation journey here:

https://bit.ly/3MAGfgu



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24/10/2023

Interactive online games for kids to support global learning, explore the wider world, and to be the change they want to see.

Read more about the product we have built with CAFOD, one of the largest aid networks in the world.

We are excited to be continuing our collaboration with CAFOD, creating more resources for young people, the next games are being launched in Spring 2024.

https://bit.ly/3QvI1BS

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13/09/2023

We have built our own product: Zest for Webflow.

It is live and ready to use.

So what is it? A new browser extension that seamlessly integrates a Global CSS panel into Webflow projects.

What's that all about?

Find out more in our latest blog on the Big Lemon website: https://bit.ly/3r8zMlF

Or pop straight over to the Zest For Webflow website: https://www.getzest.io/

If you want to know more about how it's been made, then our Owen has shared a bunch of information over in Twitter, aka X, about the code stack, the low-code aspects, components, intergrations, and many more special nuggets of insight: https://lnkd.in/evYFrWH3

We are mega proud of this creation, as with everything that we do, and hope you find it a joy to use as much as we do.

07/09/2023

We made a bold change this August.
How did we do it? Why did we do it? And why does it matter?
Our Sam shares the journey, and her personal pressures and thoughts too, in our latest blog.



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30/08/2023

It has been 2 years since we trialled, and consequently adopted, a 4 day work week 🎂

It has changed our lives for the better.

Be the change you want to see folks. Flexible working all the way for us.

14/08/2023

'There’s so much more that makes a genuine difference to my day-to-day working life'

Our Sarah shared her thoughts and experience in a recent blog for She Can Code, discussing why going beyond formal policies matters, particularly for those with neurodiversity like Sarah.

Check out the full blog here 👉https://bit.ly/45qlScX

11/07/2023

Exciting strategising going on today with Amber, reflecting and analysing on our current live products that we have created together, and scoping up further products, all working towards

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29/06/2023

On 15th June the gang were chatting all things People, Nature and Impact at Our Health Meadow, an innovative space at the University of Llandough site for the Fit For Future conference.

We love what we do, who we work with, and the positive impact and powerful change our work achieves. It is not often we get asked to share this with the wider world, so when invited us along to present and talk about our new collaborative product we have created together, my emoji/fy emoji we were mega chuffed.

We met some amazing people and heard inspiring and heartwarming life experiences. We are super proud to be working with the Down to Earth bunch and supporting mental health, wellbeing, inclusion, and vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

Do you want to try out the product with your communities? We would love to talk about how we can get this product out in the wild with a wide audience so get in contact with us: [email protected]

Read more about the journey so far here: https://downtoearthproject.org.uk/my-emoji/



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13/06/2023

This week we are showcasing my / fy emoji, a digital inclusive wellbeing measure, that we created in partnership with Down to Earth Project.

The showcase is happening at the Fit For Future event taking place at Our Health Meadows, and innovative new site at University Hospital Llandough on Thursday 15th June.

Through Down to Earth's work with vulnerable and disadvantaged communities they recognised a need for an evaluative measure that could assess mental health, wellbeing improvements in a more inclusive way than a traditional written questionnaire.

Following extensive research with Swansea University there is now a 5 question measure that uses emojis to provide a quick snapshot of mood and current experience.

The app, my/fy emoji, takes the research a step further, it analyses responses, taking the data, anonymising it, and interrogating it to determine the outcomes. Providing the participant with an interface where the measure can be completed and an administrator portal where groups’ data can be monitored and analysed.

Get in touch if you want to find out or get access to the product.

https://downtoearthproject.org.uk/my-emoji/


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22/05/2023

Last week for we shared some snippets on how we care for our mental health.

is something we should be prioritising always, so please keep talking & sharing.

18/05/2023

It's okay to not be okay.

Be kind to yourself.

Protect your .

17/05/2023

Join us and raise your voice for 💛

Ask for help.

Check in with yourself.

Ask others how they are feeling.

Break the taboos around

16/05/2023

It is 💛

We are raising awareness by sharing how we take care of our mental health. We all have good days and bad days. Ask for help. Check in and ask others how they are feeling. Break the taboos around

15/05/2023

All of us at Big Lemon struggle to understand & manage our . It is a scary place to be when the overwhelming feelings takes over your body and mind.

It is important that we keep talking about mental health, to check in on others & to ask for help.

All this week for we are sharing how we try to prioritise our mental health.

11/05/2023

We love creating our own bots & tools.

We couldn't find an off the shelf internal time-tracking product that did what we needed at Big Lemon, so we made our own 🛠️ It's perfect 💛

Interested in trying it out for yourself or company? Let us know 🍋

05/05/2023

Celebrating our collaboration with MUSA Framework (Midwifery Unit Self-Assessment), City of London University, Midwifery Unit Network, and all the impactful organisations involved with the project on International Day of the Midwife.

We are super excited to share that phase 2 of the journey has begun, co-producing a bespoke interactive portal 🍋

We will be hosting our second Discovery Session in London next month with the MUSA Working Group, who represent midwifery worldwide, listening, exploring, digging deeper, analysing, and translating their voices and the people that matter to create something impactful and purposeful that will support much needed change.

02/05/2023

What have we been creating recently?

We co-produced the new Benthyg Cymru website 😍 🍋 which is live.

We kicked the product journey off with a collaborative face-to-face Discovery Session, keeping future proofing in mind, and the essential need for encouraging behaviour change.

A highlight for us was building a postcode mapping function to find the nearest Benthyg library to where people live. We love hashing out product possibilities, and this bought the designers and devs together to achieve something new.

We are proud to be highlighting Wales as a global leader in repair and reuse, positively contributing to sustainability, and the wider circular economy mission.

Read about our product journey on our website case study page: https://bit.ly/3Hv0nhv

26/04/2023

Have you spotted the new Lemon on the block?

Meet Chloe, our super talented Digital Product Designer 🍋

We are excited to try her homemade pavlova one day 🍮

Our latest blog shares snippets from her world

Chloe takes inspiration from her family and has a wicked creative streak

21/02/2023

Our Sam was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales tonight following the hugely successful pilot results that were published today by
4 Day Week Campaign. We shared our journey to permanently adopting a , having trailed it in August 2021, and then starting a 6 month trial in January 2022, we never reverted back. The benefits are clear to see, from wellbeing, productivity, work-life balance, team diversity, our environmental impact, and so much more.