Article Reading Time: < 1 minute Projects we love them and we often get asked what are our top UX skills that we use regularly. So here are our top 7: User Research: Understanding user behaviour to gather valuable insights to inform on the design process. Prototyping and Wireframing: Essential for communicating design ideas, helping to facilitate collaboration and testing. Accessibility… Read more »
Article Reading Time: < 1 minute Get inspired with some of our favourite UX quotations! We use them for brainstorming sessions, or for inspiration on projects in our consideration of how users feel, and use an interactive product. We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make… Read more »
Article Reading Time: 3 minutes Strange, strange things… At ixdlab_ we aren’t convinced that Chatbots can fully replace a trained human employee entirely. We do believe they offer business added value in supporting out of hours contact, or brilliant for handling regular simple tasks like applying a flag to customer bank accounts that the customer is using a card in… Read more »
Article Reading Time: 3 minutes Here are some of our top ten tips for working at home. 1. Meetings. Stuck for a way to have a meeting with more than one person? Use Google Hangouts, or Zoom for meetings. For a more personal approach try Skype.Always, always have a decent suit jacket to reach for if the occasion arises. 2…. Read more »
Article Reading Time: 3 minutes Whether it’s your website, app or software – great usability and UX design is an essential part of the package. It doesn’t matter how amazing the ideas, features or designs are, if your customers can’t use it, don’t enjoy using it, or don’t understand it! In this post, we explore the top 7 things customers… Read more »
Article Reading Time: 2 minutes Facebook’s Libra is a ‘Permissioned blockchain digital currency’. A higher degree of security is built into this peer to peer network so new computers being added into the network have to be pre-authorsied to join. The present Blockchain of Bitcoin, uses a permisionless Blockchain which some argue is still as secure as pre-authorisation that Libra… Read more »
Article Reading Time: 2 minutes An ‘Altcoin’ is an ‘implied’ cryptocurrency coin, meaning it often shares Bitcoins characteristics, hence the name ‘Alt Coin’. Currently its claimed there are over 1500 of these ‘Alt Coins’ available to invest in. Notable Alt coins: Litecoin – Seen as an alternative Silver to Bitcoin’s gold and thoroughly decentralised! Uses a ‘Proof of work’ scheme… Read more »
Article Reading Time: 2 minutes Stablecoins are ‘coin’ based token’s that retain, or are close to a value. A stablecoins value may go slightly up, or under the $1 dollar remit or equivalent value and is not prone to risky volatility, hence the term Stablecoin. The Stable coin may track the dollar, but negative, or positive increase / decrease with… Read more »
Article Reading Time: 2 minutes So 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 »
Article Reading Time: 3 minutes Captcha’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 »
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