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.
iot Exploring IoT, My First Build - DMX Revolving Art Installation A journey through my first IoT project, bringing together the worlds of technology and art
android Playing with Foldables in Android Q Foldable devices look to be the next big thing in mobile development. How as a developer do you support them; and as a CTO, should you?
product & design Design & Git: Guidelines for effective design version control Abstract is a version control tool that allows designers to manage their design files. We've written a few guidelines on how you can use Abstract to improve your workflow.
kotlin Kotlin Anti-Patterns - Also this is Null Kotlin is a young language, and with that comes many untrodden paths and unknown gotchas. Let's explore one of these anti-patterns, for the sake of the article I've called it "Also this is null".
craftsmanship Git commands for code detectives Short collection of handy git commands helpful for debugging undocumented systems
agile Delivering outcomes with distributed teams using Liberating Structures By using Liberating Structures you can learn how to identify and mitigate risk, effectively measure progress and demonstrate value for a distributed team. And run effective workshops, with a flexible design and toolkit.
product & design Unleashing the potential of Design Sprints for your business Have you ever wondered what are design sprints? How they can benefit your business? If this is the right thing for you? Here you can find an overview of what to expect going through a design sprint and what you get at the end.
augmented reality The ultimate guide to AR Design, ARKit, CoreML and more! Over the course of a few months, various people at Novoda have experimented with technologies such as Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Image Recognition and more. We've written a lot about these topics and wanted to gather all our blog posts in one place for your ease!
