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DPL Reading List – July 24, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Anatomy of the Credit Card Form (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Over the past 20 years, we’ve built a mental model of paying online: I pull out a credit card from my wallet, enter the card…
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Why I’m Betting On Windows Phone
I fell for Windows Phone while attending Microsoft MIX 2010. The OS had a fresh, albeit flat, minimalistic interface. I loved the vision of a common design pattern shared between the Windows Phone OS and its apps. And appealing to my logical side, completing tasks was incredibly efficient and streamlined. As one of the few…
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DPL Reading List – July 17, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Making Companies Competitive By Expanding Design’s Role (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “It’s not good enough to delight your direct customers. You have to delight all the customers and employees down the supply chain. Your methods for…
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The Importance of Context in Engineering
People who know me understand how strongly I feel about experiential learning. I have often talked about how valuable I believe my own personal experiences are and how I feel they impact the way I see and approach problems. I even wrote a blog post talking about how challenging it can be to work with…
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DPL Reading List – July 10, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. 5 Facets of the Coming Internet of Things Boom – “Predictions that the Internet of Things (IoT) will usher in a new era of prosperity get some backing in a new study by consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The study estimates…
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Ensuring Software Quality with a Layered Approach
The Beehive team (on which I work), as well as all the Nebraska Global companies, have made layered processes and techniques part of our day-to-day operations to ensure the quality of the software we are creating. It is very easy to make a statement like “by relying on more than one testing technique, we will…
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DPL Reading List – July 3, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Help People Create Passwords That They Can Actually Remember (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Organizations and individuals want to protect their online privacy and information, and thus usually have some respect for their passwords. If there is…
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Better Through Partnership: National Research Corporation and Don’t Panic Labs Improve Patient-Provider Interaction
Don’t Panic Labs works across industries, and with clients large and small. Each of these are excited about different aspects of DPL’s offerings. For example, one unique partnership is with Connect. This company is a joint venture with National Research Corporation (NRC), a large Lincoln, Nebraska-based provider of services to healthcare facilities. Specifically, Connect helps…
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DPL Reading List – June 26, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. To Understand Code, Don’t Read 38,000 Words. Just Start Coding – “To program professionally is hard and requires a lot of experience, but to program recreationally is easy and requires none. What is code? It’s a good question, and Ford’s is…
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Developing Software Products in a World of Gray
Like it or not, we live and work in a world of uncertainty and vague requirements. I like telling people that very little in my life is black and white. Most of it is shades of gray. This is not necessarily a bad thing because I think it is what makes designing software products (and…
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