Digital Product Insights

Today, more than 60% of the internet globally is consumed on the mobile phone. With more and more users spending more time on their mobile phones, the optimization of user experience on that device is essential. Even when a company has a dedicated native mobile application, users increasingly prefer to make use of the web version to avoid downloading and installing a native app, mostly due to hardware and memory constraint. Let’s explore some more reasons why having a PWA could work to your advantage.

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are an attempt at marrying the best features offered by modern browsers to the best of a native application. PWAs are a lot like native applications but are accessible and deployed from web servers via URLs, so a user won’t need to visit an app store to download your application. If you’re on a desktop, using Chrome, and have the appropriate flags turned on, you will be prompted to install the app when you visit the site. What makes it different from a web application is that it can be “installed” on your system. You can still access it offline like any other native application by leveraging data cached during your last interactions with the app. PWAs need to meet the below set of essential requirements to be qualified as one. They need to be:

Facebook was founded on the idea of connecting their users with their family and friends. That remains the driving principle of news feeds or activity streams today. But the success of a news feed relies on engagement. On ensuring your news feed displays and encourage users to interact with stories that matter to them most. Every user’s news feed has to be subjective, personal and unique.

Streams make a huge difference in code when it comes to memory consumption. Say you create a big file and if you write to that big.file through a writable stream a million lines with a loop, running this script will generate a file that’s about 400 MB in size. The server will serve the big file using the asynchronous method when the node server gets a request.

The United States, compared to other affluent nations, spends a disproportionate amount of resources on healthcare with disappointing results. Distorted market signals and complex insurance rules lead to providers burdened by excessive paperwork, frustrated patients and massive inefficiencies.

Digital health or Health Tech makes use of various technology such as applications, databases, wearables, and mobiles to improve the payment, delivery, and consumption of care, with the ability to increase the commercialization and development of medicinal products.

Myths continue to be perpetuated because people continue treating mobile app development as a stand-alone project while your mobile apps should actually be a part of your enterprise-wide strategy.

It’s not surprising that innovation tends to come from decentralized analogous network solutions, considering that the international correspondent banking ecosystem today is basically a decentralized global network. There has been significant interest in the potential the blockchain technology houses to act as the backbone of a cross-border payments messaging unit...

Predictive analytics houses the power to reveal valuable customer insight, like what content consumers are likely to read and when they’re most likely to buy. Predictive analytics is the use of statistical algorithms, data and machine learning tools to identify, based on historical data, the likelihood of future outcomes. Far more organizations have turned to predictive analytics to gain a competitive advantage and increase their bottom line.

Most of us tend to jump directly into coding the core logic of the app. We get it, that is where the fun lies. Following processes is tedious. Nevertheless, when you devote good time upfront to set up your project correctly, you’ll see for yourself how much time and energy you save in the future. Start by setting up the coding style guides for your project. There is no single right coding style. Setup your own style before starting with your project but keep in mind that the entire team will have to follow those guidelines. The guidelines will help make your code more uniform and therefore, easier to read.

It’s not hard to see why Ruby on Rails has become the favorite development platform for Startups and Enterprises alike. Rails is often spoken of in the same breath as other coding languages like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML but when you dig deeper, you’ll realize that it’s not a programming language at all.

For any given project, there are many different ways it could be developed. This is a massive advantage for all. Instead of having to rely on a hammer to nail every issue, we have at our disposal a toolbox containing various powerful tools.

Even the most accomplished IT/DevOps guy can’t save a system that is poorly written. So code with the end in mind, plan for production from day one. Meaning, ensuring you save no data locally on a specific web server, utilizing cache heavily, gauging memory usage and leaks, minimizing the usage of anonymous functions, making use of CI tools to detect failures before sending to production, logging wisely and having an error handling strategy in place from the very start. Below are a set of practices we’ve developed along the way that have served us well.

In user interviews, you’re essentially sitting down with a complete stranger, asking them personal questions about their lives, and hoping they’ll answer honestly and openly enough that you can use what they say to design your product. You’re fast-forwarding a relationship in a few minutes, from the handshake to sharing life truths. How do you get there? Below are a few pointers to guide you through the process.

Empires like Microsoft and Salesforce run on the SaaS model. SaaS Products are some of the best ways to develop software that can serve millions over the web and mobile through a rapid, flexible software framework.