January 10, 2024
Defining Dev | State of the DevOps Report | User Experience | software development
As reflected in last year’s State of the DevOps Report, where the intersection of technology feasibility and business needs is more crucial than ever, user-centered design becomes the guiding light for success. To utilize it properly, focusing on users doesn’t stop at the UX team — it requires synergy between the entire company. So, how do you ensure that the user is considered at every step? Our Director of Customer Experience, DJ Jahn, shares his insights into the importance of engaging customers and clients, understanding user behavior, and balancing technical constraints with user desirability to show how organizations can seamlessly integrate user-centered design principles into their DevOps practices.
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November 29, 2023
State of the DevOps Report | User Experience | devops | software development
DevOps is a powerful and crucial combination of software development and software operations that allows organizations like Aviture to deliver better products, faster. As we get closer towards the end of the year, many organizations like ours are taking a step back to look at the data surrounding DevOps from not only our company but others in our space. DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), a long-running research program recently acquired by Google, has produced the Accelerate State of DevOps report for the past twelve years — gathering data and testimony from over 36,000 technology professionals from around the world. The 2023 State of DevOps report was recently released, and after reading through the 95-page document, I am excited to share some of my takeaways from their major findings this year.
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October 26, 2023
Digital Transformation | User Experience | User Interface | business dashboard | modernization
In today's data-driven business landscape, having access to accurate and actionable information is crucial for strategic planning and decision-making. With the right, modern systems in place, you can visualize complex data sets, track key metrics, and gain real-time insights into your company's performance. Whether you're tracking sales figures, website traffic, or customer satisfaction scores, a well-designed interface lets you monitor these metrics at a glance.
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February 02, 2022
User Experience | User Interface | accessibility
Making your products and services as accessible to as many people as possible isn’t only the right thing to do; it’s good business sense. Too many companies continue to approach accessibility as an afterthought within the design of their websites and applications. This excludes many prospective members of the target audience who may have the intent to purchase a product or service but find it difficult to do so. It can frustrate current customers who feel they aren’t adequately able to use what they’ve invested their money in. Making a website or application that’s accessible is crucial when designing your tech. But knowing how to evaluate your current efforts is somewhat tricky and can be even more difficult than starting from scratch. Here are a few things you’ll want to consider.
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November 24, 2021
UX | User Experience | User Interface
Welcome to Create Impact, a new series from Aviture focused on the topics that inspire our engineers to innovate. In each article, an Aviture team member will take you on a deep dive into a subject they’re passionate about, showing you the thinking behind cutting-edge engineering advances, the latest UX trends, development theories, and other unique topics that enable Aviturians to embrace the Art of the Possible for our clients. In this post, Frontend Engineer Chris Kollars explores design systems and their importance to creating a cohesive user experience. He explains how to define design systems, how they differ from and interact with component libraries and style guides, and why they are crucial for unifying your team around brand-based best practices and experiences.
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October 27, 2021
UX | User Experience | User Interface
Welcome to Create Impact, a new series from Aviture focused on the topics that inspire our engineers to innovate. In each article, an Aviture team member will take you on a deep dive into a subject they’re passionate about, showing you the thinking behind cutting-edge engineering advances, the latest UX trends, development theories, and other unique topics that enable Aviturians to embrace the Art of the Possible for our clients. In this post, Director of Customer Experience DJ Jahn explores the differences between UX and UI, common misconceptions about each, and how incorporating user-centric strategic and design practices into every step of the process can provide an exceptional product that wows the end user.
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October 06, 2021
You’ve got a brand new product, app, or update coming in the near future. Your engineering team is ready to fire on all cylinders to bring it to the masses. The time is now. But hold on for just a moment. How sure are you that people will use your product or service the way you intend? Assumptions are the enemy of technology. They can lead engineers, departments, and entire companies down the wrong fork in the road, wasting time and resources and delaying innovation. This is precisely where usability testing comes in.
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April 07, 2021
UX | User Experience | User Interface
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (an incredible old-timey name) is most famous for a particular quote. In the case Jacobellis v. Ohio, he and the other Justices on the court were being asked to, in essence, determine what constitutes obscene content, something that is notably subjective and difficult to pinpoint. In response to this seemingly difficult assignment, Justice Stewart came up with a rather simple, straightforward criteria: “I know it when I see it.” We bring this up because you could say the same thing about user experience, or UX.
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