Engineering Insights

Creating a visually appealing and user-friendly interface is no longer just a bonus – it's a necessity. User Interface (UI) design plays a pivotal role in determining the success of any software or application. UI design is the first point of contact between a user and an application. A well-crafted UI not only captivates the user's attention but also enhances the overall user experience. Over the past 20 years that we have been in the business of making software products for

Great title, isn’t it? Not original, of course (what is, these days of Google?), taken from a talk given by Lew Cirne, founder and CEO of New Relic about his journey about software entrepreneurship. But it’s just too good a line to be stuck to just that, so I’m repurposing for my topic today about bad UX design in software and how that destroys people’s lives. We had a poster up on our social media page today that seems to have hit a nerve of a lot of people. I’ve copied it h

This is a story taken from real life. One our customers from the Netherlands approached us with a very interesting idea of a software for gamifying trainings they run. They run trainings for big corporations - stuff like corporate policy, safe working habits, HR good practices, etc. The problem was that the topics were just not interesting enough to keep the attendees engaged. They needed something that would bring in more interest and engagement from the people attending th

I’ve found that in my chats with founders I keep coming to some common themes. And it doesn’t matter if the founder has been working on technology all his life or if he has no idea about software. One of those common themes is the discussion about how to make decisions about the actual user interface of the features that she has been dreaming up. For the technically minded founder it becomes a thing of do I use this pattern or that, or a strong bias of some type (e.g. “less i

As with the rest of the software world we were excited about the possibilities of VR and getting our hands dirty with some VR code. So it was with a big smile on our face that we took in our first official VR project. And not just any boring "also ran" VR app but a full blown first person shooting game! Nothing compares to writing a game. Add to that the total immersive environment of a HTC VIVE (our first target platform) you have something that literally stops us from livin

One day whilst at a museum showcasing art by a very famous artist a 7 year old boy stood in front of a painting showing a single brown dot, a blue sinuous line and nothing else. The painting was apparently of a woman sitting by the riverside. The child turns to his parents and says “hey you know I could draw that” much to the laughter of the surrounding patrons. Then what exactly made this painting by such a famous artist so special? Was it the simplicity of subject, idea and