March 05, 2018
by
Tim
For a recent government digital project that Kindleman was proposing, I went back to have a look at the criteria for government digital projects - because I hadn't read through it for a while. I was surprised (read: ecstatic) to see that it had been updated to an entirely readable...
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March 04, 2018
by
Will
User Experience (UX) design underpins all good web design. Good UX can be derived from experience, theory and research. To get it right, it pays to validate it through User Testing and to iterate on those learnings. There have been hundreds of books written on the subject but I've picked...
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February 02, 2018
by
Will
Web apps are great but sometimes, for a variety of reasons, you want a native app. That might be because of functionality, pricing model, distribution or to help drive engagement.
ios app development2
There are quite a few very different ways you can build your Native App. Let's have a...
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January 24, 2018
by
Tim
In January 2018, the 11 countries comprising the Trans-Pacific Partnership reached a mutually beneficial trade agreement. It is expected the agreement will be signed in March in Chile and will historically open up better trading routes for businesses from all the member nations.
For businesses from these member nations - Australia,...
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November 15, 2017
by
Emily
Scope creep (also called requirement creep, function creep, or kitchen sink syndrome) in project management refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope, at any point after the project begins. This can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. -...
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October 26, 2017
by
Emily
Do people constantly request the same piece of information from you? Do you constantly send the same document to people? Are you required to produce the same reports every month? Are there repetitive tasks that are required every week, month, quarter?
Does automation of routine business tasks sound like the...
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October 13, 2017
by
Will
A system to please everybody.
A good administration tool needs to be a lot of things. It isn't just about basic crud anymore. You need it to be appealing to users so that it's a selling point for the project and users actually use it. It needs to help developers and...
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September 26, 2017
by
Tim
Something we’ve never really delved very deeply into (until recently) is AD SERVING.
Ad Serving is delivering advertising in the form of banners and textual blocks into a website. And it’s the way a very large portion of the internet makes their money - by hosting the advertisements inside their website.
Fairfax...
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August 15, 2017
by
Will
Working with big CSV's can be a pain. You don't want to open Numbers or Excel because they are slow and have a limit on the rows they can view. You need to be able to view, edit and create shorter versions for testing. Sometimes there are formatting issues to...
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August 01, 2017
by
Tim
Recently I chatted with a Chiropractic business owner. She'd had her website re-done, and off the back of our conversation she said - 'They just asked me what I wanted, and then put it together.' And while I know this is pretty common when dealing with smaller operators, it got...
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