According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the projected employment of software developers is over 4 times bigger than that of other occupations. In the current talent shortage scenario, companies are doing their best to attract and retain software developers. What does this mean for you, the candidate?
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Website navigation is the most important feature of the overall user experience. It can make or break your chances of conversion. Having a good site navigation system in place is critical to the effect your website will have on visitors and whether they will stay on the site to explore other pages or bounce. Navigation is key to the performance of a site but it also has an affect on many other things- from retaining visitors and turning them into conversions.
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Using design systems can save you a lot of time and money. Your team will communicate better and the whole product design process will be shorter than you think. All you have to do is to create a proper pattern library, style guide and code snippets. Here’s how you do it. First things first, let’s explain the basic terms used here:
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A mobile bank, a company fighting for ownership of your data as a human right, a pan-European online marketplace for savings and investments, and a drone insurance startup - we present the 10 hottest fintechs from Berlin right now.
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A digital bank for SMEs, an online marketplace for business loans, a corporate credit card provider, and a company providing banking services to microentrepreneurs in Africa and China - we present the 10 hottest fintechs from Paris right now.
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Many entrepreneurs and product strategists make the same mistake. They either focus on the technical part of the planning (what programming language they'd like to use) or the business goals they want to achieve. These are definitely crucial elements of creating a successful product. However, the risk is that they will drag your team away from a human-centered perspective, which has been proven to be the best method for building products people love to use. In this post, I will explain to you how design thinking will make your design sprints deliver outstanding results on time.
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Google IO started 2 days ago, and, as usual, we’ve got a lot of amazing news straight from Mountain View. One of the jaw-dropping announcements was the newest feature of the cross-platform development framework, Flutter.
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It’s been quite a while since talked about our failures here. Since then, we've made some new mistakes but used each of them as an opportunity to grow and we would like to share with you the lessons we learned. In Netguru, we strive to deliver the best work possible, but, we admit, we sometimes fail and, as long as we don’t make the same mistake twice, we accept it as a part of the learning curve. Today, I’d like to tell you about the popular mistakes a PM can make (and we know because we’ve made them all) so that you can avoid them in your daily work.
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Good mobile app architecture is the foundation of all well-designed software. However, when it comes to mobile applications or platforms, there’s always been a problem with a good architecture. In the case of Android, it might be because Google doesn’t support or even recommend any specific architecture. Apple, on the other hand, suggested the MVC architecture for UIKit, but their proposal aroused a lot of controversy and many experts claimed it was not a good solution. In this blogpost we’ll try to figure out how to choose the right architecture for mobile app development.
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Mobile applications have been with us for more than 10 years. Within that time, the mobile development market has significantly changed. At the beginning developers were limited to native platform-specific applications which were not able to work on different systems. The growing demand for mobile apps brought new ideas for shortening development time. And that’s how cross-platform development was born. Near-native platforms, such as React Native or Flutter, are gaining ground and offering better opportunities to build native-like experiences. Today, we want to discuss the pros and cons of such solutions.
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