Urban planners have been designing for human experiences for nearly 200 years, and UI/UX designers can learn from this. Examples of The Chicago School of Architecture | Photo Credit: Tom Seiple When I finished my graduate degree, I was lucky to find my first job in Chicago. From a very early age, I had always hoped to… Continue reading Good design is subjective, contextual, and intentional
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Setting up performance reviews for Product Designers
Take a few shortcuts with my comprehensive guide on evaluating designers Why is evaluating designers so difficult? Evaluating the performance of a product designer within a startup or agency environment is challenging. It involves a mixture of objective and subjective data that is synthesized in an attempt to gauge if someone is to be rewarded,… Continue reading Setting up performance reviews for Product Designers
Why e-commerce is failing people and the planet
We need to stop designing with blinders and scaling solutions designed for the individual Illustration by Marie Dupuch Betting on convenience to grow e-commerce The number of parcels sent internationally has increased by 4.5 times in the last 6 years, from 43bn in 2014 to 131bn in 2020 (B2B, B2C, C2B). UK deliveries account for 4%… Continue reading Why e-commerce is failing people and the planet
How To Design A Website With Security In Mind
There are billions of websites today as companies, small and large, seek online presence. However, this surge in website design and development is confronted by a rise in cyber attacks, prompting a need for cybersecurity. The sophistication of the internet can be rewarding; however, it can also be weaponized by hackers for illegal benefits. Your… Continue reading How To Design A Website With Security In Mind
Understanding Cybersecurity for Your Website
A massive national oil pipeline was recently shut down amidst a secondary pandemic of ransomware attacks. This comes just as industries pivot to accommodate the virtual shifts brought about by COVID-19. For your website, this means a new and focused approach towards cybersecurity is more important than ever. Understanding the importance of cybersecurity is the… Continue reading Understanding Cybersecurity for Your Website
Get Real-Time Weather Data With the weatherstack API
“You can always talk about the weather.” It’s a cliched phrase, but regardless of a person’s personality, political views, or culture, the weather is a subject that anyone and everyone can talk about and find common ground. It’s the universal truth that binds humanity together. But the weather is more than that—it’s a force that… Continue reading Get Real-Time Weather Data With the weatherstack API
23 Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2021
We’re going to try something a little different this month; with this roundup of tools and resources for designers, we’re going to pick a few of our favorites and group everything else in a manner that makes it even easier to find elements that will work for you, and your projects, right now. Here’s what’s… Continue reading 23 Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2021
How to Choose a Bare Metal Server From OVHcloud
There are dozens of factors that influence the UX of your site, app, or game. Most of them are beyond your control; user connection speed, end-system resources, even browser technology is all out of your hands. So when you do have the opportunity to influence your project’s infrastructure, you should seize it. The world’s fastest… Continue reading How to Choose a Bare Metal Server From OVHcloud
How T-shirt Design Software Helps T-shirt Business in Sustaining Amid COVID-19 Pandemic?
The fashion industry took a huge blow due to the COVID-19 pandemic and many brands had to take extreme steps of retrenchments and store closures to sustain the lockdown. While the world is adjusting with the new normal, there have been many changes in customer behavior as well as customer expectations! On one end customers… Continue reading How T-shirt Design Software Helps T-shirt Business in Sustaining Amid COVID-19 Pandemic?
Everything you need to know about Zenserp
It has become quite challenging to scrap search result pages from the various search engines. This is owing to the fact that all search engines, including Google, have put some strict regulation services in place for dealing with scraping SERPs programmatically. If you want to get around these restrictions, you need to use an effective… Continue reading Everything you need to know about Zenserp
3 Best DevOps Tools for Your Next Web Development Project
DevOps is a process for web development that brings developers and operations teams together. This structure tries to eliminate common problems with development through joint scoping before a project kicks off and closer collaboration during development. This combined team effort allows companies to streamline the development process and bring products, website, apps or services to… Continue reading 3 Best DevOps Tools for Your Next Web Development Project
5 Innovations That will Make Food and Agri Businesses Smarter
Food and agriculture is an important business. It represents one of the largest industries in the world. The food and agriculture sector is one of the most significant and dynamic ones in members of the European Union. As far as global food and agriculture is concerned, it is worth trillions of dollars. Food and agri… Continue reading 5 Innovations That will Make Food and Agri Businesses Smarter
How to Improve Your Website’s Performance?
Not sure why your online business is not as competitive as you’d like it to be? Or maybe you’re experiencing conversion rate loss, especially during peak times? One of the reasons why you could be losing potential customers is poor website performance. Sadly, nowadays, potential clients won’t wait even a few seconds for you –… Continue reading How to Improve Your Website’s Performance?
How to Build Better Enterprise UX
While both enterprise and consumer-facing design involve finding out who the users are and what they are trying to accomplish, there are also some key differences to keep in mind. 1. Different Audience, Different Needs When it comes to consumer audiences, the buyer is a little more straight forward. But for many enterprise products, the buyer… Continue reading How to Build Better Enterprise UX
4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform
The ultimate end game of every manager in today’s ever-so-competitive agency space is the ability to swiftly scale. Whether it’s your client base, revenue or resources, ensuring everything advances quickly and effectively, without sacrificing quality, is a must-do. Unfortunately, scaling remains one of the biggest challenges of digital agencies today. How so? Consider how agencies… Continue reading 4 Must-Have Features for Your Agency’s Web Development Platform
Why Should You Outsource Software Development?
As the technology revolution took the world by the storm, it also affected the corporate ecosystem and reshaped the business environment. Although the new breed of entrepreneurs already acknowledges and comfortably embrace the need to develop technology-driven business systems, conventional entrepreneurs still find it difficult to digest the changing dynamics of the business world. Over… Continue reading Why Should You Outsource Software Development?
Why Web Devs Need To Know About Servers And Infrastructure In 2018
April 4, 2018 by Spyrestudios Blogger Web developers must always be up to date with the latest advancements in their field if they want to remain relevant and create future-proof websites. Since the computer industry is one of, if not the most, dynamic field of specialization, keeping abreast with what’s new is not as easy… Continue reading Why Web Devs Need To Know About Servers And Infrastructure In 2018
IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, FaaS – How Do You Choose?
Before your business can adequately take advantage of the opportunities that cloud services offer in infrastructure and application deployment, there is a need to understand the various categories of these cloud services and how each of them can help your business grow. Understanding the fundamental differences between them will help you choose which one would… Continue reading IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, FaaS – How Do You Choose?
Designing for the age of immediacy
2018 UX Trends Illustrated by Fernando Bittar Live streaming on social apps is growing fast. Snapchat puts everyone’s lives on the map and lets you follow your friends’ steps in real time. Messaging platforms, from Whatsapp to Intercom, allow businesses to have real-time (and automated) conversations with their customers. The constraints of tools, infrastructure and geographical barriers… Continue reading Designing for the age of immediacy
Developing a Static Site Generator Workflow
Nobody likes finding bugs. Even worse, no one enjoys finding bugs while shopping for digital products. That is why, as a company providing a web-based bug tracking tool to tens of thousands of users, we have to ensure a bug-free environment. With our increasing number of web pages – and therefore increasing lines of code… Continue reading Developing a Static Site Generator Workflow