App Developer Challenges: Writing Helpful Bot Dialogue

Published on November 4, 2016

The chatbot trend has been burning for a while now, and one of the biggest…

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Instagram Introduces In-App Shopping for Brands

Published on November 4, 2016

If Twitter is the poster child of angry users and poor monetization attempts, Instagram is…

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What Would Happen If Capital Hill Ran the US Like a Startup?

Published on November 3, 2016

Government is often slow and difficult to understand. Tech moves quickly and is relatively simple…

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The NYPD Just Got Smartphones: Not the Brand You’d Expect

Published on November 1, 2016

The Windows Phone accounts for less than 1% of the US smartphone market. That might…

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How to Make Mobile Payments Work: Imitate Credit Cards

Published on October 31, 2016

A new study from Points might point to the biggest barrier holding back mainstream use…

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UK Data Spying Case Shocks and Outrages Tech Community

Published on October 28, 2016

While much of the app development community assumes the Snowden disclosures only really applied to…

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Want to Get into Y Combinator? Check out This Data.

Published on October 27, 2016

Jared Friedman of Y Combinator has shared a fascinating talk that looks at formerly closed…

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What’s better for developer productivity: music or silence?

Published on October 27, 2016

The question of what music is best for triggering app developer productivity — if any…

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Facebook Launches “Lite” Messenger Version For Old Devices

Published on October 26, 2016

Designing for a cross-platform world can be difficult for startup app developers, especially when you…

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How and Why to Create User Personas for your App

Published on October 25, 2016

User personas are one of the most mysterious parts of the app user experience (UX)…

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