A deep dive on why millennials are important to DIY retailers, how they shop for big-ticket items, what they value and above all, how can it help you accelerate kitchen and bathroom revenue.

In his latest blog, our Senior Product Expert Lee looks at the way we buy and sell products, and how it's changed over time.

Excitingly our Senior Product Manager Lee has agreed to share some of his knowledge from the 15 years he spent designing bathrooms and kitchens for people, like your customers. In the first in this new blog series, Lee looks at the true cost of installing a new bathroom taking into account time, money and stress levels.

As a lead mentor for InnovateHer, our Head of Design & UX is working with a group of girls to come up with a solution that uses technology to help Alder Hey Hospital out with a number of problems they face in just 8 sessions. In this latest installment find out what happened in weeks 3 and 4 when Tina introduced the girls to wireframes and digital prototyping.

Our Strategic Account Manager Kate looks at how you can stay on step ahead.

As a consumer there’s nothing more frustrating than spending hours deliberating over your new bathroom, only to find that your sink and tap choices aren’t compatible later down the line. Our product discovery service helps retailers manage complex product configurations, dependencies and relationships, meaning consumers can now choose and visualise a product and the accessories that match from the outset.

Last week, at their annual I/O developer conference in California, Google unveiled ML Kit. This new software will accelerate our ability to embed machine learning models into our apps and allow us to experiment with models to create proof of concepts very quickly.

There’s a myriad of decisions to be made even with a fairly basic new bathroom, from tiling to paint, sink units to storage and lighting. Each of these decisions can create an extra layer of friction that slows your customer down.

Flicking through the Sunday papers I was struck by an amusing piece written by David Mitchell this weekend entitled ‘As a society, we must get over the green loo.’

In this golden age of choice and the retail world being invaded by technology driven competition, we’re looking at how retailers can invest online to drive traffic in-store.