Live chat was designed to provide a shrewd resolution to customer queries. It is now one of the greatest tools for lead generation and increased sales. Businesses can use real-time conversations to better engage with website visitors. When tweaked with certain exponential practices, live chats can also become an overarching sales hack.
Good products and collaboration go hand in hand. The former is simply not feasible without the latter. Collaboration has always been an area of prime interest for us, at zipBoard. Whether that is a collaboration between designers and developers, or agencies and clients
Websites, at the time, were a collection of these static documents, stored in their entirety and there was minimal interface on the server-side. With the introduction of CGI or Common Gateway Interface, this changed. CGI allowed websites to run scripts and this enabled the webserver to be more than just a storage facility of static
Dark patterns in design are one end, an ethical issue. How fair it is to try and push the user into a direction that benefits your goals is still debated. In some cases, there’s a fine line between prompting the user for more active engagement or tricking them into diving deeper. In other cases, dark
Let us start by establishing the scope of design and its stakeholders. Just how buttons, colors, and typeface alone don’t make up design, in the same way, the stakeholders in a design process are not limited to designers and creative directors. With the design, there’s a goal. And to reach that goal, there is a
Bug tracking has increasingly expanded into the domains of the entire product team, not just R&D, and for good reason. As software becomes complicated, it becomes more difficult to manage issues in excel sheets or post-its.
As a bootstrapped company we appreciate how to handle our resources, both in terms of financial capital, as well as human effort. Building a SaaS product while not pursuing investments can be a challenging task. And it has been. But the one sure-shot lesson we’ve learned when it comes to hiring is not hiring for
Designing a website is incredibly convenient with the tools available today. Having a theme for your website helps maintain consistency throughout the design. It helps build an identity and bring a unique brand voice to your web design. Even if you’re new to web design or just an amateur, having a consistent design all across
No matter how exciting it is to start working on a new project, there are still many hurdles the developers and the entire working team have to overcome. As the business grows and projects mount, things can easily get out of hand. Many different challenges may arise. Instead of reaching the desired goals, developers might
One of the best ways to grow as a designer is to learn from the ideas and experiences of others. These ten podcasts provide plenty of that. So tune in to them to get your creative juices flowing and some fun anecdotes from the world of user experience and design.