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Users should never have to figure out how to do something using your site or app…

User Experience Design

Users should never have to figure out how to do something using your site or app…

Stephen Krug’s masterpiece that belongs on every bookshelf in the industry. Don’t think twice before reading this “bible of UX basics”… Filled with ‘AHA!’ moments from the get-go, this book may not revolutionise the way you think, but it will remind you of what to prioritise and focus

Gamification at work?

Gamification at work?

As someone who has spent countless hours on games, I can attest to the fact that nothing beats the immersion and intricate reward systems, a sentiment, I’m sure that the gamer community strongly resonates with. Whether you are Dota 2 person, or answer to the Call of Duty with

So what exactly does it take to be a good project manager?

Project Management

So what exactly does it take to be a good project manager?

Being a Project Manager is no easy task, there are a lot of responsibilities and easily bruised egos to juggle, and more often than not, it boils down to 2 things more than anything else — being super approachable and having well polished people skills, followed by the ability to collaborate

Be the Change, Make the Change — Contribute to the Change

Be the Change, Make the Change — Contribute to the Change

GitHub is an indispensable tool for anyone aspiring to be a successful web developer. Making contributions to existing projects or may be even driving a new project altogether are crucial parts forming a developer’s journey. Developers are expected to make things happen in a faster, more efficient way on

There’s a way to be creative on demand, the future is here

There’s a way to be creative on demand, the future is here

Quick question before I get onto the post about the fact that now there’s a way to now be creative on demand, how long does it usually take to come up with a marketing plan that is innovative, edgy, original, and hits you in the feels in the best

High Notes: VueConf 2017, Webpack 3 and Java 9

High Notes: VueConf 2017, Webpack 3 and Java 9

VueConf 2017 — First Official Vue.js Conference The first ever official Vue.js conference took place in Poland (they are finally joining the big boys on the stage!). This was a big step for the developer community for Vue.js which has been making its mark in Javascript framework space.

Designer by designation or choice?

Designer by designation or choice?

Designer by designation or choice? One of the lesser known things that the graphic design field is known for, is the sheer amounts of resource material it has to offer. As is the case with any discipline really, there’s a lot to read, learn from and write about, to

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

Learning how to design for the web is ageless? Do we need to be, forever young? Lots of things change as we age. We let go of our naivety on subjects of time estimation for task completion, we’re wiser with decorative element choices, smarter with white space usage, more

One Metric That Matters (OMTM)

One Metric That Matters (OMTM)

Anyone involved in growing a business knows how easy it is to be distracted from achieving your primary objective/goal. One approach to that conundrum is referred to as the “One Metric That Matters (OMTM)” approach. Here, in this video, Axioned’s Libby Swan and Purple Squirrel’s CTO and

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

Imitation, the highest form of flattery? * Inspiration, the aspiration we all have, only few can achieve - We’ve all been inspired by something or another at some point in our lives, and it has influenced us in ways that are often subtle, but painfully obvious other times. That is

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

Creativity and productivity, 2 sides of the same coin * To be creative is to.. Create concepts, develop an aesthetically pleasing design, take your time to go exploring into the depths of the unknown to find something unique and weave it seamlessly into our designs, let your mind run on a

Electron, bringing back desktop apps

Electron, bringing back desktop apps

Lots of Pokemon Go! rookies will tell you that Electron is the Electric-type evolution for their favourite Eevee, (it’s Jolteon fyi.) and then there will be the Science nerds who will tell you that it’s a negatively charged subatomic particle that surrounds the nucleus of an atom. Until

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

What We Enjoyed Reading This Week

OCD, the designer’s gift, and curse. * If you’re not obsessed with what you do, you’ll probably never do it well enough If there isn’t a fire burning inside you to become a better designer everyday and to constantly putting out your best work, which inspires others

Google I/O 2017: What you need to know

Virtual Reality

Google I/O 2017: What you need to know

Google I/O 2017 (17th-19th May) has come to a close and the internet giant has yet again blown away our minds with their adventurous yet futuristic vision. The predominant theme for this year’s event was AI — Google is adding AI to anything and everything and it is, to

Something Phishy? Here’s how to catch them

Something Phishy? Here’s how to catch them

Anyone who has been around the internet for a while has come across some kind of phishing scam attempting to lure you into giving away some information. Not sure what what these phishing scams could be like? Well, read on for tips on how to spot these out: * They often

Meetup with Kai Yen, Co-Founder of Forbes-featured PurpleSquirrel

Meetup with Kai Yen, Co-Founder of Forbes-featured PurpleSquirrel

Join Libby Swan, CEO of Axioned, and Kai Yen, CTO/Co-Founder of PurpleSquirrel (recently featured in Forbes, April 2017), for The Business & Technology of Greater New York (BTGNY) Community “fireside chat”. When is it? Thursday, June 1st. 6–8 PM EST. Where is it? Thanks to the kind folks

What we enjoyed reading this week

What we enjoyed reading this week

Typeface choices, the broad chasm between an honestly great design, and sarcasm * Nobody can tell you what a good typographic choice would be. They could, but they’d be relying on their judgement, and you would learn nothing of how to DIY from it. Choosing typefaces is like choosing an

How we “redesigned” our thoughts this week

How we “redesigned” our thoughts this week

The role of Aesthetics in Web Design * Isn’t design supposed to be inherently pretty? What even are Aesthetics? Err. No designs aren’t inherently pretty. Designers spend hours trying to get things right to make the design look as great as it does in the end, and that’s

What we enjoyed reading this week

What we enjoyed reading this week

Learn to think like an app designer * Error 404 : Innovative and Evolutionary Design not found What we need to do, is essentially to consciously declutter our heads, let go of “secret design recipes” for Awwward winning web designs ;) We have to keep in mind that when we design for mobile

What we enjoyed reading this week

What we enjoyed reading this week

Peter Drucker: How to (Actually) Manage Your Time * Record, Diagnose, Consolidate your time; and repeat * Diagnosing your time: focus your time on things you excel at; identify other things and delegate, outsource or automate * “Even one-quarter of the working day, if consolidated in large time units, is usually enough to

Lowdown on the highs from F8 2017

Virtual Reality

Lowdown on the highs from F8 2017

Facebook’s F8 2017 conference (April 18/19th) is over now and there is a lot to takeaway from it. Here are some of the things that we, at Axioned, are HYPED about: React VR * Anybody with experience in building React apps should be able to build React VR apps