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2026

Penning our thoughts on all things design, some more left field that others.

2026 Design Forecast: Branding, Tools, and the Future of Design Practice

Design in 2026 is being reshaped by AI, changing how brands express themselves and how designers work day to day. This forecast looks at emerging branding trends, evolving design tools, and why clarity, taste, and accountability matter more than ever.

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Creating Scalable Design Systems for Startups

In the thick of the build, a design system isn’t fluff. It’s the backbone that keeps things moving strong—see how the right system can turn the grind into real, lasting momentum.

Design Systems

Product Design

App Design

UX/UI

Why We Run Remote Brand Sprints

We’ve seen how remote brand sprints bring teams together online to create sharper, more meaningful brand strategies. Discover how this approach can help your team find clarity and align your vision.

Brand Sprints

Branding

Design

The key pillars of product design: The Bang blueprint

As UX/UI designers, we will already know that designing a digital product isn’t just about making something that looks good – it’s about crafting an experience that feels good, too. And that’s where the magic of product design comes in.

Product Design

UX/UI

Responsive Design

Web

Design ROI Explained: Why It Matters for Startup Founders

Early-stage founders are under pressure to move fast, but skipping design costs more than you think. Here’s how smart, strategic design pulls real weight when it counts.

Strategic Design

Design Systems

Product Design

Design ROI

Designing for All: Why Accessibility is Central To Good Product Design

Accessibility isn’t about ticking off legal checkboxes. As designers of online experiences, it’s our responsibility to ensure everyone can use the products we create, regardless of ability.

Accessibility

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

How The Bang took on the JLR challenge 2024

A catch up with our Lead Designer Jack Mercer, who led The Bang's "Bangers & Mash" team through the Jaguar Land Rover 2024 Challenge. He shared how the event went, what the team got up to, and their efforts to raise money for Dementia UK. Check it out!

Culture

Team Events

CSR

Clients

How to conduct a Brand Sprint

Brand Sprints are the first place we start when taking on a new client. They are a tool used to learn about a company, for a client to understand us, and a way to get everyone on the same page with where this project is going.

Brand Sprint

Strategy

Brand Identity

Developing a new product from 0-100: Concept Phase (0-20)

The Concept Phase (0-20) is the bedrock of successful product development. By meticulously identifying market needs, conducting thorough research, and defining your target audience, you lay a strong foundation for your product.

Process

Strategy

Concept

AWARD WINNER: The Bang named Best Product Design Studio UK - Netty Awards

The bang as won big at the Netty awards this year claiming the top spot as Best Product Design Studio UK

Award

Best Design Studio UK

Product Design

UX vs. UI Design: Understanding the Difference and Synergy

"UX design" and "UI design" are often used interchangeably in design and product development as a whole, but they represent distinct yet complementary disciplines. While both play crucial roles in creating successful digital experiences, understanding their differences is essential for building products that not only look great but also function seamlessly.

UX Design

UI Design

Theory

How UX design services can elevate your brand

Professional UX design services leverage expertise in user-centered design, elevating brand perception through seamless experiences that resonate emotionally, drive engagement, boost conversions, and ensure brands stay ahead of rapidly evolving digital landscapes.

Brand Strategy

UX Design

UI Design

The Fundamental Laws of UX Design and How to Apply Them

Leveraging fundamental UX laws, we create intuitive, efficient digital products by streamlining interactions, simplifying choices, utilising familiarity, organising information effectively, and ensuring consistency for optimal user experiences.

UX Design

Product Design

Web

DC02: Solar-Powered Sprinkler

Name and Logo Design Challenge for Innovative Solar-Powered Sprinkler

Design Challenge

Branding

Marketing

8 Tips for Creating a Consistent Bespoke UI Icon Set

I dream of a perfect utopia where everyone has the freedom to create their own unique icons for every project, but unfortunately we find ourselves in a dystopian world where time is indispensable.

Branding

Product Design

Theory

Tips for designing Fintech Products

We’ve focussed a lot of our attention on Fintech products over the last year. Why? Simply, to help drive positive change in a sector that effects everyone. We meet like-minded founders and help them shape the future of financial technologies. We’re designing products that meet people where they are, remove red tape and ultimately making finance inclusive and accessible.

Product Design

Fintech

Challenger

UX

How great UX design can change people’s lives

A lifesaving medical treatment. Meeting the love of your life. Winning the lottery. Most people would consider these things to be life changing. But UX Design? It’s perhaps not the first thing that would come to mind, even for a designer.

Disruption

Design

4 ways tech is disrupting the mortgage industry

You’ve probably seen the headlines; colourful new fintech startups challenging the status quo and staking their claim to a piece of the pie. They do things differently and use tech to help them provide a more attractive service to customers.

Fintech

Mortgages

Strategy

The Bang Design Reviews: Coinbase

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you have probably heard of cryptocurrencies: decentralised digital assets used as a method of making payments and storing wealth.

Review

Product Design

Fintech

How we landed multi-million pound investments with no code

For many tech startups, outside investment is needed to take them to the next level. Getting seed funding through to Series C investment is all doable, but you’ve got to be able to prove that you’re worth it.

Pitching & Raising

Prototyping

Product Design

How to make a splash in a billion dollar industry

Banking and finance is a big pond that only gets more crowded with each new startup and challenger.

Disruptor

Fintech

Strategy

4 Things Your App Needs to Appeal to a Gen Z Audience

Creating products and services for Gen Z can be difficult. But we've found 4 things to keep in mind that delivers results in design.

Product Design

Marketing

Brand

App Design

3 tips for designing Gen-Z products

With an estimated spending power of $143 billion, Generation Z are swiftly becoming the new Millennial.

Marketing

Product Design

Fintech

DC01: Beach Bug

Design Challenge 01: Beach bug. Fusion of Suncream and Bug Spray.

Internal

Challenge

Branding

6 ways you can improve your product’s engagement

When building a digital product, units sold, or users subscribed is often not enough and success will look different depending what stage your company is at. What you will definitely want is a high level of engagement on your app or website. It would be easy to say that getting high engagement is just about having a good well-marketed product that solves people’s problems.

Product Design

UX

Copywriting

Accessibility

How fintech is making money more accessible

How do you measure success? When building a digital product, units sold, or users subscribed is often not enough and success will look different depending on your market, engagement, and duration...

Design

Fintech

UX

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The key pillars of product design: The Bang blueprint

As UX/UI designers, we will already know that designing a digital product isn’t just about making something that looks good – it’s about crafting an experience that feels good, too. And that’s where the magic of product design comes in.

Product Design

UX/UI

Responsive Design

Web

Design ROI Explained: Why It Matters for Startup Founders

Early-stage founders are under pressure to move fast, but skipping design costs more than you think. Here’s how smart, strategic design pulls real weight when it counts.

Strategic Design

Design Systems

Product Design

Design ROI

Designing for All: Why Accessibility is Central To Good Product Design

Accessibility isn’t about ticking off legal checkboxes. As designers of online experiences, it’s our responsibility to ensure everyone can use the products we create, regardless of ability.

Accessibility

Product Design

UX Design

UI Design

Developing a new product from 0-100: Concept Phase (0-20)

The Concept Phase (0-20) is the bedrock of successful product development. By meticulously identifying market needs, conducting thorough research, and defining your target audience, you lay a strong foundation for your product.

Process

Strategy

Concept

UX vs. UI Design: Understanding the Difference and Synergy

"UX design" and "UI design" are often used interchangeably in design and product development as a whole, but they represent distinct yet complementary disciplines. While both play crucial roles in creating successful digital experiences, understanding their differences is essential for building products that not only look great but also function seamlessly.

UX Design

UI Design

Theory

How UX design services can elevate your brand

Professional UX design services leverage expertise in user-centered design, elevating brand perception through seamless experiences that resonate emotionally, drive engagement, boost conversions, and ensure brands stay ahead of rapidly evolving digital landscapes.

Brand Strategy

UX Design

UI Design

How great UX design can change people’s lives

A lifesaving medical treatment. Meeting the love of your life. Winning the lottery. Most people would consider these things to be life changing. But UX Design? It’s perhaps not the first thing that would come to mind, even for a designer.

Disruption

Design

6 ways you can improve your product’s engagement

When building a digital product, units sold, or users subscribed is often not enough and success will look different depending what stage your company is at. What you will definitely want is a high level of engagement on your app or website. It would be easy to say that getting high engagement is just about having a good well-marketed product that solves people’s problems.

Product Design

UX

Copywriting

Accessibility

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How we landed multi-million pound investments with no code

For many tech startups, outside investment is needed to take them to the next level. Getting seed funding through to Series C investment is all doable, but you’ve got to be able to prove that you’re worth it.

Pitching & Raising

Prototyping

Product Design

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The Fundamental Laws of UX Design and How to Apply Them

Leveraging fundamental UX laws, we create intuitive, efficient digital products by streamlining interactions, simplifying choices, utilising familiarity, organising information effectively, and ensuring consistency for optimal user experiences.

UX Design

Product Design

Web

8 Tips for Creating a Consistent Bespoke UI Icon Set

I dream of a perfect utopia where everyone has the freedom to create their own unique icons for every project, but unfortunately we find ourselves in a dystopian world where time is indispensable.

Branding

Product Design

Theory

Tips for designing Fintech Products

We’ve focussed a lot of our attention on Fintech products over the last year. Why? Simply, to help drive positive change in a sector that effects everyone. We meet like-minded founders and help them shape the future of financial technologies. We’re designing products that meet people where they are, remove red tape and ultimately making finance inclusive and accessible.

Product Design

Fintech

Challenger

UX

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3 tips for designing Gen-Z products

With an estimated spending power of $143 billion, Generation Z are swiftly becoming the new Millennial.

Marketing

Product Design

Fintech

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Why We Run Remote Brand Sprints

We’ve seen how remote brand sprints bring teams together online to create sharper, more meaningful brand strategies. Discover how this approach can help your team find clarity and align your vision.

Brand Sprints

Branding

Design

How to conduct a Brand Sprint

Brand Sprints are the first place we start when taking on a new client. They are a tool used to learn about a company, for a client to understand us, and a way to get everyone on the same page with where this project is going.

Brand Sprint

Strategy

Brand Identity

4 Things Your App Needs to Appeal to a Gen Z Audience

Creating products and services for Gen Z can be difficult. But we've found 4 things to keep in mind that delivers results in design.

Product Design

Marketing

Brand

App Design

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DC02: Solar-Powered Sprinkler

Name and Logo Design Challenge for Innovative Solar-Powered Sprinkler

Design Challenge

Branding

Marketing

DC01: Beach Bug

Design Challenge 01: Beach bug. Fusion of Suncream and Bug Spray.

Internal

Challenge

Branding

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The Bang Design Reviews: Coinbase

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you have probably heard of cryptocurrencies: decentralised digital assets used as a method of making payments and storing wealth.

Review

Product Design

Fintech

2026

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