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Best Practices For User Experience Design

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The Importance of a User Centered Design

How do you feel when you use an Apple product? Most will say that they love using their iPhone, iPad, or whatever Apple device they have. Apple products are designed to be intuitive and create great experiences. According to the iOS 7 developer library, Apple’s latest operating system embodies a design with three themes: deference, clarity, and depth. These three themes focus on the user and helps us understand and interact with content. With all its...

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What is A Digital Innovation Strategy?

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Need a ride home and don’t have a car? These days, you can just pull out your phone and request an Uber or Lyft to take you home. Of course, this wasn’t always the case. When Uber and other ride-sharing competitors came onto the scene, they disrupted a whole industry. They made it more convenient to find transportation home, causing many to stop using taxis. You don't have to sit on hold waiting for a taxi to pick you up and don't have to worry about digging for your credit card or cash to...

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KIF Testing

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Test-driven development is awesome. Tests are written for the code, watch the tests fail (because the code doesn't yet exist), then implement the appropriate code and everything works like magic. While writing software this way will save time in the long run, the process creates a large burden up front. This type of testing is wonderful for testing internal business logic, account management, or anywhere the code could get tricky. These individual components may work great, but how do you test...

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User Research: The Key to Mobile Digital Transformation

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Did you know that digital transformation is occurring rapidly at a majority of public and private sector organizations?

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Automating iOS Builds

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Continuous integration is a well-known practice amongst agile developers with numerous benefits that make it a must on a nearly any software development project. At ChaiONE, we have a Mac Mini that we use to house some internal apps, as well as drive a big flat screen TV that greets our guests.  Since building iPhone apps requires a Mac environment, this makes a perfect continuous integration server.

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How to Align Your Business Innovation Strategy to Your Culture

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When was the last time you took a picture with an analog camera?

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Approaching Strategic Innovation Planning for the Digital Age

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Consumers today aren’t as loyal to brands as they once were. Don’t believe this statement? Just ask Nokia, a company that just years earlier was dominating the mobile phone industry. It wasn’t like the company was lagging behind on technology. Rather, the company has historically spent enormous amounts of money on research and development (R&D). Unfortunately for Nokia, it was unable to “translate all that R&D spending into products that people actually wanted to buy”. The company got caught up...

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10 Reasons Every CIO Needs a Digital Innovation Strategy

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It’s February 2007. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, calls with a request for a product that has never been created, marketed or even come close to existing before. He asks for the impossible and wants it in Apple’s new mobile phone that was announced a month ago.

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How to Guarantee ROI with a Legacy System Modernization

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One hundred million dollars worth of Hershey’s Kisses, Jolly Ranchers, Whoppers-- all packaged, prepared and waiting to ship out to grocery stores around the country for the lucrative Halloween season. The trucks were waiting for their orders, grocery chains were waiting to stock their shelves, and shareholders were counting on the profits. The only problem: the ERP system made fulfilling the Halloween orders impossible.

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