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Design Solutions for Cross-Platform Applications
With users accessing web-based applications from a growing diversity of platforms — including desktop computers, mobile devices and smart TVs — there’s a clear need for innovative multi-platform design solutions that put a user’s experience first. Ultimately, this is about more than just ensuring consistency across platforms. It’s about considering the environment a user will…
When It's Time to Update Your UX and UI
You’ve spent the time and money to develop a winning product or service, hire great staff and position your business for success. In many industries, web-based applications play a key role in your success — both in bringing your product to market and in allowing your team to access information and collaborate effectively. Like any…
Benefits of Online Point-of-Sale Systems
Both online and brick and mortar retailers can benefit from switching their aging point of sale (POS) systems to a modern, simplified cloud-based platform. If you’re considering making the jump, or if you’re interested in running a leaner, more integrated business, an online POS can help. Online POS Benefits Regardless of the specifics of your…
Adobe Project Comet: What You Need to Know
Project Comet is an upcoming cross-platform app from Adobe that allows developers to do everything from wireframing to prototyping their UX designs. Adobe has a rich history of providing robust applications which are often able to do more than they were originally intended for. A good example of this is Photoshop, which was designed originally…
Android 6.0 Marshmallow Features and Improvements
Android 6.0 Marshmallow is poised to take the mobile OS market by storm. As always, Google has implemented a number of useful features into the new OS which makes it more robust and functional than what has come before. Many of the improvements, in fact, work to address issues that users brought up with Lollipop….
UX & UI Design Trends 2015
The field of UX design, like any other design field, usually sees some drastic changes from year to year as the cultural zeitgeist changes with the times. What worked last year or the year before isn’t necessarily going to hold much water this year. 2015 is no different. There are a few trends that have…
What Google Polymer Means for You
The Story of Google Polymer Google Polymer has seen an overhaul recently, which changes the way that it performs and the way that it uses system resources. Polymer, at its core, is the equivalent of an SDK for the internet, which assists with web application development through the use of Web Components, a new standard….
Online Tools to Run a Design Studio
Every design studio needs to have a set of tools to use for their work. This includes everything from accounting tools and project management tools to the actual programs that they utilize when they are doing their work. With so many different types of apps and programs on the market, it can be next to…
Is UX Better Than Marketing?
Introduction There has been a lot of debate around user experience (UX) and marketing lately. Some people argue that UX is a part of marketing and vice versa. Others argue that UX and marketing perform overlapping functions. Whether this is the case or not, we have to accept that UX and marketing are both crucial…
Top 8 Signs Your Site Is Outdated
Overview Having an updated site is a huge part of giving users the ultimate user experience. For instance, your site users can’t enjoy using your site if the pages load slowly because of outdated features in your site. Also, unresponsive sites are downright outdated since they aren’t up-to-date with the mobile devices most people are…