9 tips for how to use color in UI design
Color is a vital part of any interface. It can determine personality, influence mood, signify actions, change visual hierarchy...
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Breathing new life into a 200 year-old document
An interesting challenge came our way, and of course, we love interesting challenges!
We had a client who has been managing...
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How HTML prototyping improved our design process
The days of a designer labouring in Photoshop and then handing a pixel-perfect design mockup to the development team are...
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Why your CSS needs BEM
Everyone writes CSS differently. This different approach would be fine if we all worked alone, but a team environment...
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Critical building blocks: why your app needs a pattern library
You wouldn't design a house without first establishing how many bedrooms it should have. You shouldn't design software...
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5 considerations when designing software for experienced users
The team who works on software for experienced, frequent end-users should prioritize those user's needs differently to...
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Why the risk matrix must die
Risk assessment is at the heart of information security. The standard approach is to use a risk matrix to classify information...
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Finding excitement in boring problems
Mar 29, 2017In the past few weeks, I found myself being apologetic towards my team mates more than once, whenever we talked about...
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Why you should disclose your budget to your software developer
Mar 15, 2017Choosing a developer? You’ll learn far more, and build a much stronger partnership, if you reveal your budget up front...
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Why you need to get to grips with information security (and all it takes is common sense)
Jan 13, 2017Our firm develops enterprise software for clients around the world. Recently, I’ve been looking at tightening up our Information...
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How ERP software is crippled by bad design. It's the process, stupid!
Nov 29, 2016Recently, I learned that ASML, the world’s leading manufacturer of lithography equipment, is making a major investment...
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How infrastructure automation saves time, money, and security concerns
Oct 5, 2016Commissioning and maintaining a web application involves a range of infrastructure tasks such as ordering servers, configuring...
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Why great software doesn’t grow in cubicles
Oct 1, 2016Plenty of businesspeople still see virtual enterprises as second-class operations that can never truly deliver. But remote...