design Define before Diving: Product Strategy Defining your product and what you expect from it can be as important as creating the product itself.
HTTP How IPFS is taking on HTTP A huge advantage of IPFS is that a file may not necessarily be stored on one node; there may be many nodes storing small pieces of that file. This means that instead of retrieving the file from one location, you actually retrieve the file from multiple nodes at once, massively reducing bandwidth.
career progression Self Assessment Framework: How we use Miro for career progression and prepare for effective 121’s We’ve all been there, your yearly review is looming with your manager and you feel somewhat unprepared. You feel that you’ve had a professionally impactful year and you feel quite pleased with what you’ve achieved, but how on earth do you convey all of that?
iOS How are App Clips going to save my day? Here I am, on the streets of Wroclaw. Pandemic lockdown rules have been partially lifted and I can finally go and meet my friend. I don't really wanna use the train, because... well people. So I opt-in for one of those electric scooters.
webinar How to foster remote collaboration and culture webinar: Your questions answered! We partnered with the London and Berlin design lab communities and Foolproof Agency, hosting a webinar, bringing two talks highlighting the best advice on keeping collaboration and culture thriving in remote environments.
Tools and practices to improve distributed teams day-to-day work Novoda and technology company Magic Lab come together to share tools and tips, and their best advice on remote environments and how to practice high performance with distributed teams in a one hour webinar.
design How to foster remote collaboration and culture We teamed up with Design Lab London, Design Lab Berlin and Foolproof, to share insight into keeping collaboration and culture alive and thriving in remote environments. During a one hour
product Gain confidence in your investment with Product Discovery So, you have an idea for an app and you want to see if it's an idea worth pursuing? Before spending too much time and money, you want to be
Fifty shades of #808080 Keeping styles and colours to a minimum can ease maintenance and enable applications to quickly iterate on design changes. This blog covers my top android resource smells and how to deal with them for a cleaner future.
agile Why you need to set up a proper super-system to be successful What makes some teams and people successful at achieving their goals? They focus on process over outcomes.
dev tools Our top tips for remote working tools and practices At Novoda we fully embrace remote working. Here you can find the most valuable tools and best practices to get the best out of each, for working as a global collective building digital products.
business How to make innovation labs succeed Companies struggle to stay innovative and are building innovation labs to help. 90% of them fail. Here are 5 rules to make innovation work.
product & design Enhancing collaboration and transparency within a product team The most effective teams strive for frequent collaboration, creating opportunities for knowledge sharing and creative problem solving.
product & design 3 Steps to make your app more magical Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. How can you make your own app experience more magical?
quality Oh Sh*t : There is no time to test Writing a test is easy, ensuring your project is tested, is hard. This post is here to advocate for end-to-end testing, to make controversy mainstream and hopefully convince you to
android Android Dev Summit 2019 just got recommended but you wouldn't believe who by?! Android Dev Summit is a conference with over 25 technical talks, and a chance for the Android team at Google to share the latest and greatest of what’s going
product What can product leaders learn from Napoleon’s Grande Armée? The way Napoleon Bonaparte managed to lead and change the French army into the seemingly unstoppable Grande Armée holds valuable lessons for today's product leaders.
product Why no one reads your app copy. Your users won’t read most of the copy you have in your app. We outlined the 3 most common reasons why this happens and what you can do to make every word count.
design Teaching app design to kids with Future Legends This past weekend saw the third edition of the Future Legends ‘Design a mobile app’ workshop at Novoda, Berlin. We welcomed 7-9 year-old designers and innovators to learn the basics of user experience design.
design Achieve alignment & vision with stakeholder interviews Stakeholder interviews allow you to ask powerful questions to business leaders, helping to define future vision and drive success.
events Five hot-topic product design questions - answered! This month we cover some of the biggest questions being asked in product design today. We have designers sharing insights into how to succeed in design team leadership, driving inclusive design, designing for the voice interface and how to design without analytics.
makefest IoT at Liverpool Makefest 2019 Makefest celebrates it's 5 year annivesary this year! We participated with a stand at the 2019 event and built an immersive Internet of Things gaming experience, called Wack-a-Light to engage with those attending and learn more about Kotlin, Firebase and IoT for ourselves.
augmented reality How the largest airline in Europe experimented with AR to drive sales An airline, undergoing their largest digital transformation, wanted to explore AR and how it would benefit their customers, engage more of their buyers in the buyer's journey and increase their sales revenue. This is how we partnered to do so.
product management Do you focus on the wrong product problem? Several years ago, McDonald's decided to increase their milkshake sales. Initially without effect. Let us look at how McDonald's managed to turn it around and what you can learn from this story.
google i/o Google I/O 2019 is over, here's what we are excited about Google I/O 2019 was a blast! We've been talking and discussing all the new shiny stuff since last week and here's a selection of the things we're most excited about.
