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 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.
design An evening with Ladies, Wine & Design Inspired by conversations with fellow designers, three Novodans have taken the opportunity to share their own experiences as women working in the tech industry, answering questions they’re often posed in the quest to find work/life balance and reach their full professional potential.
workshop Future Legends: closing the gender gap in tech Future Legends has a mission: to close the gender gap in technology. The organisation, founded by Managaing Director, Cassandra Melvin, offers girls between 6-16 years old free workshops to explore
design Designing experiences for professional collaboration What if instead of merely arranging your next meeting, you were to design an experience?
design Organising icons in design systems The design team at Novoda has been dabbling with Design Systems in Sketch lately. Design Systems work as a unique source of truth for every imaginable component of an app’
iOS ADDConf: Two disciplines, two locations, one talk Last week we were invited to speak at ADDConf in Barcelona, Spain. ADDC, the App Design and Development Conference, aims to create an opportunity for mobile designers and developers to
amazon Exploring chat bots on the Amazon Alexa; to infinity and beyond Recently Amazon announced a contest to evaluate the best Alexa skills, running on the Echo and optionally the Echo Show whilst targeting kids under the age of 13. Novoda is
design Novoda Design does Mobile UX Conference London 2017 The Mobile UX London Conference (MUXL), founded by Naveed Ratansi has developed from a series of design meet-ups focussed on mobile user experience. The design team at Novoda were lucky
android Onboard your users with Lottie of Spritz Creating an onboarding for your app can get slightly tricky when combining Lottie with a ViewPager. What if we could get rid of all the nuances and just import an
product management Google Playtime 2017 Google Playtime is an event organised for Google Play apps and games partners. With inspiring talks, group discussions and pre-booked one-on-ones with members of the Google team, it's an opportunity
product & design Make it better, for Everyone Not so long ago, computing was a luxury for the selected few. Just a small number of people had access to a computer and less so, to the internet. This
machine learning In plain words, Machine Learning Voice recognition, face recognition, text recognition are only some possibilities that are enabled through Machine Learning. It is a technology that can allow our devices to get a better understanding
product & design Use cases for wearables Android Wear 2.0 is focused on bringing standalone apps on smartwatches, but that does not invalidate the key principles that should be followed when designing wearable applications: glanceability and
product & design Whole Lottie Love I have to admit, when Lottie was initially announced by Airbnb I didn’t pay too much attention. I just skimmed the Github page without realising its true potential. Fast
product & design Building natural dialogues for your voice assistant My esteemed colleague Flo and I recently worked on a television guide bot using api.ai + Amazon's AWS backend service to experiment with the capabilities of Voice User Interfaces (VUI)
product & design Scribbling your way through app design It is the most useful tool a designer can possess, and yet designers are still jumping into digital tools before they consider a classic combo… The pencil and sketchbook. As
product & design Accessibility Sessions at Google I/O 2017 There were three recorded accessibility sessions at Google I/O this year, with three additional "office hours" with Google's accessibility experts for those lucky enough to attend. Read
product & design All 4 on your wrist In this age of ubiquitous computing, phones and tablets aren’t the only smart devices that users interact with during the day. Smartwatches give instant access to snippets of news
product & design Adapting design sprints for continuous delivery As an advocate of research-driven design, having the opportunity to facilitate design sprints and explore product solutions in interdisciplinary teams is a dream come true. However, making this work in
business A window on Novoda's Liverpool office Our inspiring designers have been at it again. Our Liverpool office has a striking new window decal thanks to Dave & Qi and the fine folks at AB ScreenPrint. Here's
business 5 tips for productive design meetings As a designer here at Novoda I’m often out meeting clients and presenting design concepts and iterations. I’ve picked up a few tips along the way that might
