A bucket of our design & dev saga
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How Research Killed an Uber Cool Startup Idea Part-1
The Honest Confession I must confess, it wasn’t the smartest thing to do, when the bossman comes to you flashing a million dollar smile, with what he believed was a million dollar startup idea.Sticking your neck out, putting your job on the line and suggesting we do some user research before we get into execution, much less … Continue reading "How Research Killed an Uber Cool Startup Idea Part-1" -
Rails Girls – Anything They Can Do, We Can Do Better!
The Genesis It all started in November 2010, at Helsinki when Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen, the founders of Kisko Labs decided to empower women by making technology more accessible. Rails Girls was born as a weekend event to open up technology for women and has since flourished in different cities across the world, breaking … Continue reading "Rails Girls – Anything They Can Do, We Can Do Better!" -
Top 5 UX Predictions for 2017
Predictions for UX design have already started pouring in. From chatbots, artificial intelligence, self-driven cars to virtual reality, 2017 seems to be packed with a lot of challenges and opportunities for designers. All of these predictions sound cool, cutting edge and path breaking. But what if we have to take a step back? Are there any … Continue reading "Top 5 UX Predictions for 2017" -
6 Best Practices for Leading a Development Team
When you are the team lead of a small or a big development team, you have many responsibilities on the project that you don’t as a developer. You become a key player in ensuring successful delivery of the project. Here are 6 things to keep in mind as a lead. Architecture This is one of … Continue reading "6 Best Practices for Leading a Development Team" -
How A Smart Customer Stole Our Business
We had a customer in Canada, let’s call him Smart Alex. They had off-shored their Ruby on Rails Spree development work to us in India. They had a pressing need and we took up the project. We delivered the project on time and the customer was very happy. The testimonial he gave us after the … Continue reading "How A Smart Customer Stole Our Business" -
Startup Conundrum – The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
As a startup founder scouting for new business in software development, I was in Chicago last month. It is very intriguing to find the kind of challenges entrepreneurs have and how they are deadlocked working in their business. Here’s a particularly interesting meeting with a startup founder that I would like to share. A 15-year-old … Continue reading "Startup Conundrum – The Good, Bad, and the Ugly" -
Build your own mini Heroku powered by Docker in 3 simple steps
Heroku, as you are most probably aware of, is a popular PaaS (Platform as a Service) that allows developers to easily deploy their applications developed using different languages or frameworks to the cloud using a simple ‘git push’. This saves you from having to provision a server yourself for deploying your app which involves installing … Continue reading "Build your own mini Heroku powered by Docker in 3 simple steps" -
Working with Logstash
Logstash a centralized tool to collect and aggregate logs. It is so intuitive and it’s configuration are so easy to understand that you would just love it. The post describes how to work with Logstash and Logstash configuration. In nut shells, Logstash is composed of three main components. 1.Input 2.Filter 3.Output – Input : What … Continue reading "Working with Logstash" -
Alpha App – App within an app
In today’s busy world everything has become compact in the form of mobile application aka app and has summoned the entire world in hands of the phone owner. The motive of every app owner is to keep its app user engaged on their respective app all the time. Basically, the more screen time the app gets … Continue reading "Alpha App – App within an app" -
Role Playing in User Experience Design — A Real Case Study
Very recently, we were designing a mobile app. for NBA fans to help them order food inside a stadium. One of the key aspects of the ordering experience was the information about the pickup stands.These stands were located all over the stadium. These stands will prepare the order, and notify the users to pick the … Continue reading "Role Playing in User Experience Design — A Real Case Study"
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