Mid last year, I wanted to port an Android app to iOS and web. Flutter was the choice for mobile platforms, and I was thinking about what to choose for the web side.

Project Management in stratups versus enterprises

“Startups play poker, big companies play chess.”

This quote by Don Dodge, Developer Advocate at Google, encapsulates the differences between being a project manager in a startup versus an enterprise.

Executive Summary

Financial reporting is often less than useful for managers. A chart of accounts reboot can fix that.
  • Accounting teams tend to focus on doing things the "right way" rather than asking the readers of the financial statements what they want to see.

You’re a creative professional. You’ve been peering into a laptop all day, and while your eyes and mouse-fingers are fitter than ever, the rest of your body feels like a crumpled can of cola.

JavaScript is an oddball of a language. Though inspired by Smalltalk, it uses a C-like syntax. It combines aspects of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigms. It has numerous, often redundant, approaches to solving almost any conceivable programming problem and is not strongly opinionated about which are preferred.

Even though designers and product teams talk about Agile principles all the time, most teams still don’t leverage them effectively. When we end up spending time and money making something that nobody wants to use, how do we finally make a break to radically improve our product development process?

Software production today isn’t the same as 20 years ago. Software has become more and more complex, with distributed teams literally all around the globe, and reliant on people specialized only in a specific part of the process.

Welcome to the first discussion in our brand new Design Talks series dedicated to sharing the insights of thought leaders and top designers from around the world. We interview experts who work with design in different contexts, with different purposes, and through different approaches.

Executive Summary

It has been questioned whether sales incentive schemes are necessary in business.
  • Alfie Kohn famously said in the early 1990s that sales incentive schemes are doomed to fail because they encourage perverse short-termism that conflicts with long-term success.

Involve your customers and collaborate with them from the start. Otherwise, you are working without understanding the whole picture.

What is Human-Centered Design (HCD)?

When you understand the people you’re trying to reach—and then design from their perspective—not only will you arrive at unexpected answers, but you’ll come up with ideas that they’ll embrace.