Design strategy Email marketing software is an essential tool for digital marketers. Two software companies that are often top of mind for email marketing are CampaignMonitor and Mailchimp. These companies are almost twins… CampaignMonitor is an Australian based company that grew organically…

Freshbooks x Tradeshift Online invoicing aplications are growing at a phenomenal rate. Two of the emerging leaders are Freshbooks, with over 3.5 million users and Tradeshift, who recently raised million in investment capital. Let’s take a look at the homepages of both…

Features It’s so tempting to add new features to your app. New features give your product something new and fresh. New features give you something to get creative and excited about. Usually a customer or prospective customer has suggested the new feature…

Innovation Innovation turning things upside down. Have you ever looked at a map of the World upside down? Well, here it is. The funny thing is, just by turning something upside down, it can look completely different! Now try this with a…

iPhone x Android UI Writing an SMS on an iPhone 4 versus on a Samsung Galaxy Ace iPhone 1 – Android 0 There’s lots of difficult user interface design choices that we, as web developers and designers, make everyday. Allow me give…

Online marketing & fiction books Until recently, I spent a period of about 3 years only reading serious, non-fiction books. I read about customer development, web business models, and inbound marketing. I read about the housing crisis, the rise of China and…

Netflix Netflix has recently opened their service to the Irish market and I get the feeling that Netflix is going to gobble up market share pretty quickly. Just take a look at this nifty little landing page above. First check out that…

Big idea I’m a romantic when it comes to business ideas… I see chemistry everywhere! Someone describes their latest entrepreneurial brainwave to me and I straightaway envision how that could be the next big business. I see someone somewhere doing something a…

Travelling Innovation travelling. Have you ever noticed how fresh you feel after a trip to an interesting place? Reinvigorated, filled with new ideas and inspirations, finding new perspectives on old problems… Travelling helps you innovate! You look out the window of the…

How to plan an App here is a very short and simple approach for planning a software application! 1. Write down the list of things the website must be able to do based on what your target customers want. This is called…