Category: Blog

Cryptocurrency, Bitesize.

Article Reading Time: 2 minutesSo what the hell is bitcoin then? Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that was launched officially in January 2009. Bitcoin relies on a distributed database / peer 2 peer networking structure that’s decentralised, offering ways to secure, or encrypt each created or managed transaction with no central authority. A sort of ‘posh’, accountancy distributed ledger of… Read more »

Cultural UX, Captcha’s.

Article Reading Time: 3 minutesCaptcha’s. Known to many across the world as “Completely Automated Public Turing Tests”. Represented as ‘funny picture based things’, or an absolute jumble of letters, often shown to the user (customer) in a grid. In this article i will be concentrating on one feature of a picture based Captcha, the pictures certain types of Captcha’s… Read more »

46 useful Northern X (formerly twitter) hours.

Article Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe have listed some of our favorite northern, local, and national based X (formerly twitter) hours to share with you good business folks. Did you know that X hours are useful for digital brand promotion, Advertising, and networking to and with other businesses and organisations. Don’t see an X (formerly twitter) hour listed. Just drop… Read more »

What no one tells you about User Research

Article Reading Time: 2 minutesA quick guide to the User Researcher. What does the customer want from your online digital services, and products? How do we find out what the user actually needs our digital products and services to do? Cue the User Researcher who researchers the User, also known as the customer. A User could interact with different… Read more »

3 reasons to User Research AI

The Three reasons you should use User research to test Artificial intelligence based projects.

Article Reading Time: 2 minutes“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” Eliezer Yudkowsky Machine Intelligence Research Institute If your Artificial intelligence software or hardware (e.g. robot) has an interface (voice, direct input) it is likely that a human at some point will need to interact with it. Not… Read more »

The 24 UX terms everyone should know

Glossary

Article Reading Time: 3 minutesTo work on a successful project is to understand what it is that your UX team, are actually talking about. Its important to get that understanding of some of the terminology and to help you really interact with the team spirit. We’ve compiled this handy run down of some of the most essential terminology in… Read more »

Top ten UX tips

Article Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo not construct design wireframes without research. Do not dismiss the context for that is sacred to the design process. Do not ignore Fitts law afterall for even customers with ‘fat fingers’ should be able to use your software, mobile application, or website. Focus on long term and medium goals for your design process, that… Read more »

How to design a prototype for startups!

Article Reading Time: 2 minutesSo your an entrepreneur you’ve created an idea that you know has potential customers and makes the world a better place for everybody. How should you if your startups goal is to launch your idea as an online service, hardware, wearable or software project go about designing your idea? Prototype design a must for all… Read more »

technology Its a fad world

Article Reading Time: < 1 minute“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.” Richard Stallman, creator of Gnu …and he’s not wrong……….nope in fact you could say looking at some of the more recent wearables, iwatch (what do we do with it lots of head scratching), to google glass (watch out for that augmented… Read more »

Mobiles app versus – website

Lightbulbs, thoughts

Article Reading Time: 2 minutesRecent research has discovered that mobile is out growing desktop uptake and with that comes a number of planning issues for business with respect to pitching and getting the right type of approach to providing online products and services from the cloud or online. Mobile users are identified as having few apps on their phones,… Read more »