Posts about Product Design
How to Design Your HR Tech App—Good UX and UI Practices
It is universally accepted that HR software design must, naturally, obey the general rules of good app design. Whether large or small, rudimentary or feature-rich, they ought to be clear and easy to use in order to...
How to Sell Your HR App—Good Practices in HR Software Communication
We spent the last few months creating a bunch of apps for the HR market, like Cooleaf or Guild. The process required top-notch software design and we hope the final product will draw large crowds of satisfied users. But...
Privacy-Focused Apple Sign-In—What Does It Mean for Your App?
Do you recall those Facebook and Google buttons that allow you to sign in to almost any app nowadays? Well, soon they won’t be the only option available to you and your app users. At the latest annual World Wide...
8 Fundamental Chrome Extensions For Designers (With Bonus)
Digital product design isn’t only about creating. The ecosystem surrounding the creation act is quite big and contains, e.g, researching existing websites and applications, as well as quality assurance of your app...
Why You Need Prototyping in Your Software Development
Imagine you are developing your next big project. Let’s say it is a web app that will be used by thousands of people and will take months to develop. This means a lot of billable hours for your developers, designers,...
How Event Storming Will Improve Your Business Processes
Ever since I started working with clients (that would be 6 years now!), and their evolving businesses, I’ve experienced these uncomfortable moments from time to time. These moments in the process of developing an...
5 Rules for Clarity in Data Visualization
Have you ever wondered what makes data useful and meaningful? In the beginning, when the only thing before you is a sprawling set of data, it feels simple and honest, but doesn’t exactly say much. However, the moment...
14 Popular JavaScript Libraries for Data Visualization in 2019
To what extent does your app rely on data? It probably does in some way. Even if the app is not exactly business-oriented, you’d probably need data for the admin panel, the dashboard, performance tracking, and similar...
Crafting Visual Stories Using Data and Information
In October 2018 I was invited to give a talk at the fifth Future of Design meetup, called The Beauty of Data. My talk was called “Crafting a story in data visualization”.
Admyt on Outsourcing Software Development and Working with Legacy Code
Tired with coins, lines, and faulty pay machines, Jordan Wainer, an entrepreneur and innovator decided to improve car parking systems around the world. That’s the story behind Admyt, a solution providing a seamless...
Discovery Workshops: How We Ensure Alignment Between Your Vision and An Actual Product
Working with an outsourced team can be a challenge. Different locations and time zones, sometimes even different cultures. You are where the business is, working hard to move things forward, while your hired team is...
Building a 3D iDesigner with Vue.js: Designing a Reactive Entity System
Being a frontend developer working on dozens of Web projects, it's fairly easy to dissolve into the numbing monotony of dashboards, tables, and photo galleries. But every now and then, an unusual project appears,...
Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface—Take Part In the Survey
Our latest post on the Thunderbird redesign drew a lot of buzz from industry press. Some people loved the new, modern look, others preferred Thunderbird’s current default version. As a result, the mockups stirred some...
Rules To Go By, If You Want To Become A Product Designer*
*In a medium sized software house in Wrocław, we’re currently looking for a new team member who knows how to design applications, network management tools, procurement or social platforms, and such. For those who don’t...
What Design Really Is? An Introduction
Many years ago I attended an architecture conference with my father (an architect and college professor) and he told me something interesting. We were leaving after hearing a presentation on “ecological architecture”...
How to visualize complex, real-time IoT data: Design and UX principles
You may already know from our blog and this post that here at Monterail, we have our own Internet of Things R&D team, which I am happy to be a part of.
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