Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! - Derek Jarman The ballpark definition of second screen mobile apps (or companion apps) means using another device while you’re watching TV, to interact with what you’re seeing and find out more about it. Second screen mobile apps seem to have taken a well crafted [...]
Apps need to go back to boot camp. And not just any boot camp. Apps need to become more friendly and require sensitivity training. Why? Without it, user retention goes down the drain in just a few days without it. A few years ago, the main [...]
You’re probably looking at your watch now. Or your smartphone. Or some other phone. Or for that matter, someone else’s phone. Time has ceased to exist. You want to go home. Or even if you don’t have any plan for the night, you don’t want to be at work. And why [...]
Just like wandering in a train station, waiting for a train that’s going to take you God knows where, we take a look back at the city we’re about to leave behind. We take stock of the things we did, the mountains we climbed, what we saw, what we accomplished [...]
,,Forget the pointless, shortsighted and overzealous rhetoric about the evils of technology. Tech isn’t good or bad. It’s a manifestation of intention. Period. When that tech is in the hands of the wise, it can save lives no different from a lighthouse in a wrathful storm, guiding lost sailors safely [...]
,,In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?” - Terry Pratchett So how exactly did the mobile app world reached to be a market of over $30bn+ in 2012? The figure includes all money made from pay-per-downloads, in-app [...]
,,The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user friendliness is quite simple: if this system was a person, how long would it take before you punched it in the nose?” – Tom Carey Or if we’d rephrase it, how long would it take before a user would give [...]
,,No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll No explanations, we promise, just adventure. So what are these guys trying to sell to me you wonder? Actually nothing. Instead we offer you a challenge. You’re probably thinking, ,,now what the hell is this c!@# [...]
,,A good chess player thinks at least 5 moves ahead. A great chess player uses his intuition and thinks only one. The right one.” (Note : What we’re going to underline today isn’t an attack on predictions and predictors, but simply emphasize their fragility and risks due to the volatile and [...]
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.” - Mel Brooks This is Devie. Besides being the avatar of cuteness he’s an eccentric mobile app developer. Devie is quite skilled when it comes to the mobile landscape in general and as [...]
