Marketing Professional- AgilityFeat is looking to hire an exceptional person who loves Marketing and is interested in UX to work in a combined role, launching our new product, Usabili.me. Usabili.me enables UX professionals and Startups...
The Internet of Things, Big Data, real time communications and messaging. It conjures up images of complicated data dashboards with lots of running charts, streaming data, blinking lights, machines that go “ping”, and just for fun maybe a...
Software development is by its nature a very creative process. Obviously graphic design is an art form, but there is also an art to the technical architecture of a project, the coding style, the way you test, and the interaction design....
This week I read a good TechCrunch article about the importance of putting your customers first. While this sounds obvious, author Ron Miller is making a crucial point when he says to put your customer “at the center of everything you do,...
The dust has settled from the World Cup, and I have slowly weaned myself off the TV and back into family and work life. It was a very exciting World Cup to watch this year, and as a fan of underdog teams like the USA and Costa Rica, it...
Interaction design for real-time applications is different than for more static or traditional web applications. With the advent of in-browser real-time communication standards like WebRTC, it gets even more complicated because you need...
How are those New Year’s resolutions going? If it’s anything like mine, it’s probably not going quite as well as planned. You were really into your new goal for a couple of days, downloaded a new app to help you along, made some kind of...
Interaction Design, User Experience, Usability … these terms are increasingly trendy and important in software development. They are my favorite part of software development and my favorite part of what we do at AgilityFeat. I started my...
2014 is only 9 days old and before we get too far into the new year, we wanted to take a look back at our top posts from 2013. We covered a great deal of ground last year on our blog, including our experiences developing products via...
Yesterday I was in Freiburg Germany for the Smashing Magazine conference, where I attended Dan Rubin’s excellent workshop on User Experience design. Dan is a very noted UX designer, author, and a great photographer too. The workshop was...
A common thread in many of the applications we build at AgilityFeat is real time messaging. In the traditional client-server request-based communication pattern, the only way a client receives a message from the server is because the...
For all the analytics that exist now to measure how users are using your web application, there's still one gray area that is hard to measure. What exactly is your user thinking? Why did they find that interface you designed so hard to...
How do you know when you have a User Experience problem with your web application? I sat down with our UX lead Mariana Lopez and asked her to talk about some common Red Flags to watch out for. You can see the video of our skype chat or...
Web design is a rapidly changing field, and it's not easy to keep up with all the changes. It's critical that you not only keep up to date on the latest technology changes and trends, but you also have to keep your designs fresh and...
Mariana Lopez is our UX lead and a key part of our most successful projects. Her ability to get inside the customers' head and quickly understand their processes and challenges is an important part of the UX and design assessment work...
Yes, you need a responsive web design. Let me tell you why and what are considerations you have to keep in mind. A New Era Has Already Started In 2007 Steve Jobs talked about an upcoming “post-PC” era, an era of devices that “aren't as...
UX Magazine had an article last month by Michael Lai entitled "UX and Agile: Tying the knot", which used a great marriage analogy to discuss how UX and agile are and must be intertwined. At AgilityFeat we are very passionate about both UX...