The Ugliest iPhone You Ever Did See
Tips for paper prototyping success
As part of our application development process, we’re always trying to prove that we’ve made some bad assumptions. The best way to do this is to get someone to use your app who hasn’t been involved in the design and development process.
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Swing on by and check 'em out!
Last week we started working from our new office space on the east end of Walnut Street in Boulder, Colorado. Our new space is next to the Boulder Creek Path, surrounded by lots of green trees, and close to lots of restaurants and breweries. Yee haw!
When designing and searching for our space we had the following objectives:
1) Bring our teams together: our previous office was actually three separate offices on the same floor so we had many doors…
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Why execution matters for web applications
Lots of great ideas are very simple concepts. Still, the old adage, “execution is more important than ideas,” applies as surely to web applications as any other business endeavor. Understanding how this principle applies to web development is the key to understanding development costs, and the value being delivered for those costs.
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Information scent and lessons learned from the canine world
Ever watch a dog walk through a door into an unfamiliar room? It immediately sniffs around the perimeter, sniffs each person, and sniffs any objects or dark spots on the carpet. The dog is on the lookout for the two essential communication devices of the canine world: food and excrement.
Web users act in much the same way.
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Our Vice President Derek Olson was interviewed on the local morning radio program “Business for Breakfast” on March 4. “Business for Breakfast” gives listeners current market analysis, economic updates, and interviews with featured guests, on KRCN 1060AM, the flagship station of the Rocky Mountain Radio Network.
Derek had a great time fielding questions from hosts Tom Chenault and Woody Vincent about how Foraker defies the stereotypes of “here today, gone tomorrow” web firms that all too often create software that,…
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