Who poses the biggest threat to fintech? How to focus on building products that people love to use daily? Is it possible to be an incumbent bank and a new bank at the same time? Will the future landscape of banking consist of only a handful of banks, and a few fintechs accompanied by Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google?

With the increasing popularity of User Experience as an essential part of the design process, many people are trying to learn how to create great User Experience and become UX specialists. Additionally, many organizations try to make it in the education business, and sell knowledge in this area. You should look carefully at the educational offer and choose only those courses that will provide maximum value. It's not only the matter of the time spent and the quality of knowledge, but also the money invested.

Netguru is 10 years old! We’re celebrating our birthday at the Web Summit Conference in Lisbon. Come and join us on November 6-8, 2018. Before we meet, we’d like to invite you to take a quick look at these ‘10 numbers for 10 years’ to see how we’ve changed from a small software shop to an international consulting agency:

Nowadays, with the growing popularity of smartphones, almost everybody uses mobile applications, but hardly anyone thinks of their own security while using them. At the same time, when developing a system it’s standard to put emphasis on securing the back-end, but very rarely do we focus on securing mobile apps. We just take security for granted, relying on the back-end, where there may be vulnerabilities as well.

Conversion rate is usually the main metric that entrepreneurs use to measure the success of their business. Companies invest a lot to increase their conversion rates and to improve sales as a result. However, they often underestimate how UX design influences this really important metric. With some simple tricks and UX methods you can significantly raise your conversion rate.

When it comes to the world of fintechs - as well as numerous other startups - few accelerators are as well known and renowned as Level39. Founding a startup is no easy challenge, and the expertise and support accelerators provide is often essential.

Smart homes are becoming more and more popular. In 2017 there were about 41.2 million smart home devices in the US alone, and that number is growing rapidly. It’s clear that the smart home is not something just for eccentrics anymore, but an improvement that everybody can take advantage of.

Chatbots, from smart home assistants to automatic bank assistants, have become a very common way to quickly respond to users’ questions and needs. Their main benefit is that they help businesses scale effectively and support customer service with no harm to the user experience. Implementing a chatbot into your customer communication strategy can save you time and money. They have some limitations too - most of which result from the fact that they simply are not human. Let’s look at DialogFlow - a great solution for all your chatbot needs.

At Netguru, our biggest asset is the talent. On a day-to-day basis, Netguru’s professionals are busy delivering top-notch products to companies from all around the globe. In their spare time they travel the world to share their experience. Piotr Śliwa, Senior UX Designer, spoke at four UXDX Europe conferences; Marek Talarczyk, COO at Netguru, presented at Dreamforce 17 conference in San Francisco, and Bruno Mańczak, QA Manager, has just got back from IP EXPO London, where he spoke about “crimes against testability”. We aim to give even more to external communities. But we also decided to create a space for the team where they could share knowledge with other workmates. That’s how our very first internal conference, Netguru Tech Talks, came to be.

How to create a fintech product that people will use daily? To get an answer to this question, we invited the top experts from the fintech industry – Revolut, Starling Bank, Funding Circle, Monese, Tide, and OakNorth – to our Disruption Forum. To spice our event up, we've also invited Lloyds Banking to take part in the discussion.