Working with an outsourced team can be a challenge. Different locations, time zones, and sometimes even cultures. You're in one location, while your hired team is elsewhere, building what will  become your product. How...

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...

Every year brings its share of new industry conferences. So, in order to cut down the sheer number of events to something more manageable, we sat down with the whole Monterail design team to identify the ones we think...

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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...

We spent the last few months building a bunch of cool HR tech apps, like Cooleaf or Guild. The process required top-notch software design to make the app attractive and easy to use but the key part was also ensuring...

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...

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,...

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...

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 takes advantage of licence plate recognition systems to finally do away with the idea of coin-fed meters and the frustration that came with keeping track of paper tickets. Their mission is to provide a seamless...

Have you heard about progressive Web apps? Of course you have. The whole Internet seems to be discussing them right now. And the subject got even hotter after Google I/O 18’ and a long-awaited confirmation that PWAs are...

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...

Here at Monterail, we have done tons of research about the current state of IoT market, platforms, devices and technical details. Also, our talented developers started on their own building quick prototypes and ordering...

Update (16.01.17): Our Thunderbird redesign drew a lot of buzz from industry press. Now we teamed up with Mozilla Thunderbird core team to think how we can upgrade current look and feel of the product. Maybe using the...

Everyday there are questions to be asked Back-end and front-end developers, PMs, UX and UI designers — we use and we make technology. This business inevitably experiences ebbs and flows giving us new highs and lows; as...