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Product Operations: why we shook things up and created it

The beginning of the Product Operations story at FreeAgent.

Mar 14

Product Operations: why we shook things up and created it

Mar 14

SQL the sequel: how I made my coding comeback

A long time ago, I studied Software Engineering at the University of Stirling; I’m talking the early 1990s to be exact. I fell into the…

Feb 13

SQL the sequel: how I made my coding comeback

Feb 13

Balancing usability and accessibility: how we created our new combobox component

Combobox components — user interface elements that combine a drop-down list and an input field — are everywhere nowadays. Expecting…

Oct 2, 2024

Balancing usability and accessibility: how we created our new combobox component

Oct 2, 2024

Good is the enemy of great: why we supercharged our capital asset and depreciation support

“Good is the enemy of great.” The concept is that too many things (people, systems, organisations) accept that ‘good’ is good enough and…

May 23, 2024

Good is the enemy of great: why we supercharged our capital asset and depreciation support

May 23, 2024

Evolving Banking Automation: how we developed our machine learning capabilities to supercharge…

FreeAgent introduced machine learning-driven transaction categorisation in 2019, and we’ve developed it into a situation today where we…

Mar 12, 2024

Evolving Banking Automation: how we developed our machine learning capabilities to supercharge…

Mar 12, 2024

How our FreeAgent design system came to life

It all started with some recurring questions: “Should this be a primary button? Is that the correct hex value? What are the guidelines…

Jan 31, 2024

How our FreeAgent design system came to life

Jan 31, 2024

Experiments at FreeAgent: Pop-up Pro Tips

In the Radar team, our mission is to help users stay organised, make educated decisions, and be better at business from day one in…

Jan 25, 2024

Experiments at FreeAgent: Pop-up Pro Tips

Jan 25, 2024

FreeAgent’s journey to the dark side

In April 2023 we launched dark mode on our iOS and Android app — and I’m not talking about Star Wars.

Dec 7, 2023

A montage of various screenshots showing the final dark mode designs

Dec 7, 2023

Life in the Product Design team at FreeAgent

Around 18 months ago I joined FreeAgent as a Senior Product Designer in the Radar team. A key reason I joined was down to FreeAgent’s work…

Oct 26, 2023

Five members of FreeAgent’s Radar team standing in front of the walls that they painted

Oct 26, 2023

Fast, simple, powerful: how we created our new invoice theme designer

Pulling back the curtain on our internal design process and the decisions we made that shaped this feature.

Sep 25, 2023

A screenshot of the customisation tool in FreeAgent

Sep 25, 2023

FreeAgent’s brand refresh: what we changed and why

If you’ve used FreeAgent lately, you’ll notice our brand and products have a modern new look!

Sep 11, 2023

Sep 11, 2023

Evolving FreeAgent’s mobile apps

A little over a year ago we released our replatformed native iOS and Android apps. When we started the replatform project, I wrote an…

May 24, 2021

Evolving FreeAgent’s mobile apps

May 24, 2021

Clarifying credit notes: improving our workflow

When it comes to the world of accounting, credit notes should be quite simple — they are essentially a notice of a refund. However, they…

May 4, 2020

Clarifying credit notes: improving our workflow

May 4, 2020

Next-level automation: building smarter banking in FreeAgent

Categorising your bank transactions in FreeAgent is a key part of our users’ small business accounting, as it helps them track their…

Dec 13, 2019

Next-level automation: building smarter banking in FreeAgent

Dec 13, 2019

Redesigning FreeAgent: more than just a fresh coat of paint

In case you missed it, we’ve been gradually testing and rolling out changes to the FreeAgent UI over the past year. We’re delighted to let…

Dec 10, 2019

Redesigning FreeAgent: more than just a fresh coat of paint

Dec 10, 2019

How we rebuilt the FreeAgent iOS app

Earlier this year we gave you an update on the future of FreeAgent mobile, letting you know that we were in the process of rebuilding our…

Nov 5, 2019

How we rebuilt the FreeAgent iOS app

Nov 5, 2019

How user research is informing our mobile roadmap

A couple of months ago we told you that we are currently in the process of re-platforming the FreeAgent mobile app. We have ambitious…

Aug 22, 2019

How user research is informing our mobile roadmap

Aug 22, 2019

The future of FreeAgent Mobile

It’s been over five years since we launched the first version of FreeAgent Mobile. We initially launched with just the iOS app, and then…

Apr 25, 2019

The future of FreeAgent Mobile

Apr 25, 2019

FreeAgent volunteers support education in Malawi

One of our ongoing objectives at FreeAgent is to make our company the best possible place to work. We believe our mission of putting small…

Feb 1, 2019

FreeAgent volunteers support education in Malawi

Feb 1, 2019

How we’re Making Tax Digital at FreeAgent

On the week commencing 4th June 2018, the compliance team at FreeAgent kicked off our Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT project. A world of…

Nov 1, 2018

How we’re Making Tax Digital at FreeAgent

Nov 1, 2018

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