Improving Your App’s Accessibility for People Who are Disabled

According to the World Health Organization, about one billion people across the world have some sort of disability today. Some disabilities can affect the life of someone daily, other disabilities can affect the life of someone periodically. Regardless of ability (or disability), all are equal users of technology, but those

August 20th, 2016|

Design Thinking: The Competitive Advantage of Turning Everyone into a Designer

Effective design thinking demands observation, interviewing, creating personas, developing storyboards, making prototypes and performing decision-making analyses. In short, the process requires a whole brain approach, where learning comes with doing the work of overall design.

August 20th, 2016|

Hanami: A Full-featured, Lightweight Alternative to Ruby On Rails

  Hanami is a Ruby MVC web framework made up of small, single-purpose libraries that can be used independently.1 It promotes strong architecture through the use of plain objects, as opposed to magical, overly-complicated classes. Whereas Ruby On Rails is a noisy metropolis, containing functionality you may never need or use, Hanami lets you assemble

August 20th, 2016|

Are Chatbots the Next Generation of Customer Service?

Whether or not you realize it, many of us have actually welcomed chatbots and AI assistants into our homes or personal lives. The breakthrough of chatbots on our personal devices took place when Apple introduced Siri on their iPhone 4S in 2011. AI assistants like Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo, Google Assistant, and Microsoft’s Cortana are in

July 20th, 2016|

The Importance of Company Culture and Managing Remote Development Teams

Year after year, employees across a wide spectrum of professional fields are finding themselves working more remotely; and as communication technologies advance, this number will surely increase. There are even companies now that build almost their entire workforce remotely — and some are able to yield just as good, if

July 19th, 2016|

Achieve Quality Code and ROI through Test Automation

Software development companies are under constant pressure to deliver new applications that will satisfy every user’s needs across all devices and locations, preferably at high speed and low cost. Automated testing has become a way to ensure applications are error-free, cost-efficient, and quickly delivered. Automated testing takes place on several levels of the project:

July 19th, 2016|