22 Feb
Do I Need a Static Site Generator?
The majority of websites that we come across on the interwebs today are dynamic sites. What this means in simple terms is that all the elements you see before you — images, text, other assets — everything has been put together piece by piece when you hit enter after typing a URL or when you click on a button.
14 Feb
Inside the Working of an eCommerce Agency — Interview with Darren Ratcliffe, Digitl
Founder and Head of eCommerce at Digitl shares his insights on multi-channel retailing, chatbots, automation, and running his own agency
08 Feb
Improving the Project Management Experience with Phases
When we started building a tool for gathering reviews and sharing feedback on web, eLearning, and eCommerce projects, we were always focused on providing context. Visual context, to be precise. That was the main problem we were trying to solve with zipBoard. Our own experience with conventional-issue or bug tracking and collaboration systems had left
10 Jan
Optimizing eCommerce User Experience: Interview with eCommerce Specialist Melvin Simpson
Businesses of all sizes today have an online presence. The eCommerce space is not just about sales but about establishing a credible brand that is visible to customers across digital channels. Online retail sales in the US itself have exceeded $230 billion and form an increasing chunk of the total retail sales. For brands that
12 Dec
Maximizing Website Conversions Using Live Chat Software
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.
05 Dec
Inside the Working of a Digital Studio — Interview with Joshua Davidson, Chop Dawg
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
29 Nov
How to Start With Static Sites
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
21 Nov
Dark Patterns Harm Usability
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
14 Nov
Fixing Feedback in the Design Process
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
25 Oct
Collaboration and Communication Simplify Bug Tracking
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.
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