Counting unique visitors without using cookies, UIDs or fingerprinting.
Building a web analytics service without cookies poses a tricky problem: How do you distinguish unique visitors?
Prototyping at Normally
Prototyping contributes to every aspect of our design process - from strategy to research, idea generation, testing and trials. We begin building prototypes at the very start of each project - and continually iterate throughout. We build them to speculate on future data capabilities for ourselves and our clients. We
Job Opening - Design Generalist
Design Generalist. Permanent, full-time position. 4 days a week, 32 hours. Hello, we are Normally [https://normally.com/] - a highly experimental digital design, research and technology studio based in London. We are a team of 13 'Normals' who don’t subscribe to any one ‘discipline’. We are fascinated by
Job Opening - Designer / Developer
Designer / Developer. Permanent, full-time position. 4 days a week, 32 hours. Hello, we are Normally [https://normally.com/] - a highly experimental digital design, research and technology studio based in London. We are a team of 13 who don’t subscribe to any one ‘discipline’. We are fascinated by data,
Job Opening - Junior Designer
Junior Designer. Permanent, full-time position. 4 days a week, 32 hours. Hello, we are Normally - a highly experimental design, research and technology studio based in London. We are a team of 13 'Normals' who are fascinated by data, collaborative thinking and making things normally. As a Junior Designer you
Designing with real data
Modelling real data has a profound impact on the experiences that we create.
Flipsiders getting up to speed with prototyping at Normally
On a cold day in November, eight strangers arrived at the Normally studio. Our space, so quiet over the last 18 months due to lockdown, was suddenly buzzing with conversation, youthful enthusiasm and laughter.
Hash Match: Working with anonymised data
How do we collect an individual's data anonymously and still deliver insightful analysis back to them?
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The potential energy savings of deprecating Cloudflare's __cfduid cookie.
How much data transfer and energy is saved by removing one of the web's most prevalent cookies?
Exploring the environmental impact of data
As part of our wider expedition to understand the material properties of data, I have been exploring the environmental and carbon impact of data and digital technologies. This journey has taken many directions and I wanted to share some of the key things I’ve learned so far.
Normally. Why so secretive?
Why, after seven years, is there so little information about Normally on the internet? Why is it so hard to learn about who we are, what we do and why we do it? And why, after all this time, is 'Notes' our first attempt to open up to the world?
