Practical Tips for Using Yodlee IAV

  Yodlee is an aggregation service companies use to access customer financial information. Its Instant Account Verification (IAV) provides account- and transaction-level data about customer activity which companies use to perform day-to-day procedures such as loan and insurance processing. To access this data, companies create Yodlee accounts for their customers who then search for their

December 20th, 2016|

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|