User experience (UX) is an important factor to consider when designing any digital product. It’s about more than just the look and feel of a website or application; UX incorporates how users interact with your product and how easy it is for them to find what they need. Understanding how...
User-Centered Design: What Is It and How to Use It
User-centered design (UCD) is a process used in the design of products or services that focuses on the needs and wants of the people who will be using them. The goal of UCD is to create products or services that are easy and enjoyable to use by taking into account the users' needs and...
One of the simplest ways to increase security and guard your privacy is clearing out caches on your web browsers. The cookies and other site data that is stored in your browser can be used across different websites revealing personal information and aiding in marketing ads, site tracking, and...
Teamwork PM provides an excellent web and mobile app for keeping you and your team on track. A very productive tool is the task manager. With the task manager, you can create tasks and sub-tasks and even store them as a template. So for instance, if you run a construction business you might have...
SaaS applications help companies keep together when increasingly more employees are working from home
Using software as service applications such as video and screen sharing, project management, chat tools will help not only help your business keep connected during your response to help combat the coronavirus. Having those tools already integrated into your company's workflow would make the...
Typical software requests for proposals can sometimes be very detailed and sometimes not have the right details. They can contain some process flows showing internal business processes but what really needs to happen is a solid information architecture needs to be included. Using verbiage...
Having a software or App come to market has many stages before it reaches the user testing stage. With many Apps we like to get as much user testing from specific personas that would be engaging your software...
Your data is tracked at an all time high these days so perhaps you feel at this point they might as well let them have it all or not…. Well that is the case and its becoming the case in many of our daily social patterns, decisions and trends. The tracking of our patterns and data will be...
Harnessing Energy Levels Throughout the Week for Mangers and Makers
Throughout the week you ride a wave of energy that you need to harness to make the most of your time. First thing is to understand are you a maker (designer / coder) or a manager (project manager / sales manager). A...
Crowdsourcing can help you take your business or idea from zero to hero!
Have you ever had a good idea but needed funding or other people to help you get it kick started? Then you should look into something called crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining information, input, or funding by enlisting the services of a large group of people, paid or...
Keeping passwords safe is a very simple thing to do but it's one the first pitfalls of common security breeches on someone's machine. Many people keep unencrypted passwords in notepad or files this is a big security risk as if any malware is to get on your machine it will find these...
When starting a new business, or coming up with a new business plan, it is always a good idea to conduct a market assessment to help you evaluate aspects of your target market. A market assessment will give you key...
As technology continues to shape our day to day lives, it is becoming more and more evident that we are entering an era of Hybridity. This new era, called The hybrid age, is an age where we will see huge technological advancements as well as the incorporation of technology into the human...
It’s time to put names to faces and assemble your key stakeholders, identify problems and define success for your key stakeholders. Bringing energy and excitement...
Start taking advantage of Key Performance Indicators
Are you interested in knowing what your company’s progression rates are? If so, you need to start taking advantage of Key Performance Indicators which will open your eyes to a whole new way of monitoring your business. Read Full Entry >>
Solid State Drives (SSD) have been increasingly appearing on cloud servers and are possibly the hard drives of the future. Traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD) have a hard time keeping up processing speeds as they have...
Do you remember trying to connect to the internet and hearing that cacophony of beeps, rings and static sound while you sat back and waited to connect to the World Wide Web? Back in the ‘old days’ when it took a full five minutes to connect to the internet, let alone download a...
Windows is the most popular operating system on the planet and it works great but sometime is prone to malware, spyware, viruses and adware. Having a virus on your machine might not just slow it down or crash your machine it can crash your business. Many viruses once on your machine can detect...
Flowcharts and Workflows diagrams can help with top level views of a software system. Journey mapping helps understand the depth of clients emotions, experiences, time of day, social interactions and key realtionships capturing the complexity of each persona that will be...
So, you have this amazing idea. You’ve run the idea over and over again in your head, imagining what will drive customers to your business, how to gain new customers and...
Utilizing the Right Technologies for your Business
Over time as many successful businesses begin to grow they experience technical barriers that were not there when they first started. For instance how do they manage all there clients, leads, invoicing, accounting, emails, work flow, backups,...
Having a versed background in business, startups and best practices in strategy and software development process is key to having your existing business model integrated efficiently and elegantly into the software...