WHAT WOULD THE CORGIS DO?

Enterprise software often gets a bad rap from a user experience perspective, but it doesn't have to! Here's how we helped increase productivity for one client and their users by improving their system's UX.

I have been working remotely since 2016, but I have been working from home since March 2020. Those are not the same thing. Sure, they sound the same and they have a lot of common traits... But they are very different.

What if I told you that technical debt could turn out to be the grim reaper itself, jeopardizing all of your hard-earned growth and success?

The stars have aligned, and you’ve gotten the go-ahead to significantly overhaul some software. Figuring out if you should blow away the existing code and start from scratch, or if you should just rewrite parts of it instead, can sometimes be a challenging and difficult decision.

As a developer, when I’m coding, I keep asking myself questions like “Am I a good enough developer?”, “Is my code good enough?”, “Am I productive enough?”. Are these valid questions?

You’re constantly short on time, forever exhausted and you promise yourself that as soon as you finish that next “thing”, you’ll get a handle on this out-of-control hamster wheel. Except next week is the same.

The next time you find yourself looking for an issue in code, which type of searcher will you be?

Empathy is an important technical skill that can drive the decisions developers make when they code. How can we make the practice of applying empathy throughout a codebase concrete? It starts with defining the practice.

Once upon a time, there was a small business looking for help to modernize their existing software...

This past year has been rough in a lot of ways, but we were lucky enough to be able to share our core values with the world while socially distancing.