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Design Sprints: Building and Testing Prototypes in 5 Days
What are Design Sprints? Design sprints were born out of Google Ventures about 5 years ago, and the developers of the process considered the build and measure component of design the foundation for creating successful products. By building on the familiar principles...
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Three Ways to be a Leader
This blog is about being a leader, which is much different than a manager. Is your team meeting your revenue, gross margins, or project goals? Are they staying within budget, or writing/testing/releasing high quality code? Well, this article is not about all that…If...
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CRi Solutions Podcast: Insourcing vs Outsourcing
CRi Solutions Episode 2. In this episode we discuss outsourcing to help solve your technology challenges. We have with us today, Jackie Austin, Senior Vice President of the CRi solutions team. If you would like to discuss your outsourcing needs with Jackie email us at...
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An Introduction to Developing Actions for the Google Assistant
Actions on Google is the developer platform for creating conversational apps for the Google Assistant and publishing them to Google Home, Android, the Google Assistant app on iPhone, and beyond. The Google Assistant is Google’s vision for how computers can help people...
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Why Good UX is Good for Business
Every day we conduct more of our day to day business interactions in a digital environment, it's never been more critical to offer our users a seamless digital experience that aligns with how they prefer to conduct their business and live their lives. It has become an...
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CRi Team Participates in Aqua-Run
This past weekend a few CRi employees laced up their running shoes for the Aqua-Run, raising money for Aqua Africa. The race is a 10K relay race, with teams from 3 to 5 members, who each carry a 1/2 gallon hydration pack for the duration of the...
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UX Success Factors: Three Easy-To-Miss UX Interview Essentials
Beyond Principles When it comes to UX interviews, general principles are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to gathering essential data for a successful UX research project. In the last couple years I’ve identified three major areas that are easy to gloss over when...
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Rendering Graphics with MetalKit + Swift 4 (Part 2)
MetalKit Introduction This is part 2 of a MetalKit and Swift multi-part series, it may help to read part 1. For part 2 we will continue development with the code from part 1. Our goal is to create a rotating cube. In the next part, we will introduce lighting and input...
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CRi Solutions Podcast: Digital Transformation & Strategy Starts with UX Research
CRi Solutions Episode 2. In this episode we discuss mobile’s place in digital transformation, meeting users expectations, UX challenges that loom large, and how to successfully approach your next UX project. If you would like to discuss your digital strategy and/or UX...
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Reverting Vue.js Form Changes
Vue.js forms are super easy to setup right out of the box. With that being said, I ran into a problem with unsaved changes staying in memory even when the form was canceled. This issue can be easily bypassed with some beautiful modern JavaScript. My predicament...
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When Scorpions Sting: Spotify, Drake, and The Critical Alignment of Marketing and UX
Many of us would assume that for a digital music platform with over 70 million paying subscribers worldwide, huge mistakes regarding user experience (UX) don't happen. Spotify just proved that assumption wrong by committing the biggest UX blunder since the recent...
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Agile Trends Shaping 2018
Last quarter VersionOne (now CollabNet) released their 12th annual State of Agile report. This report is the largest and longest-running agile report in the world and an indicator of Agile trends.report in the world and a bellwether indicator of Agile trends. Data is...
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Pikes Peak International Hill Climb App Fail – UX Is More Than Screen Deep
Good user experience doesn’t stop with designers and the interface. It requires the entire ecosystem of your app to be functioning and reliable. Last week I attended the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado, it is 12.5 miles, 156 turns climbing to over...
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