Mobile

Tactus Technology has introduced a new way to interact with your phone: The Tactus Tactile Layer. This morphing layer of magic goo [paraphrasing] can raise up to form actual tactile buttons on your device, and disappear again when not needed. Previously, the only form of realistic haptic feedback available to touch devices was to have […]

Business is increasingly data-driven (raise your hand if you have heard the term “Big Data”) and when you talk to a company about enterprise mobile applications, the issue revolves around providing key data to a mobile workforce when and where they need it.  The important point is “providing key data” and the challenge is connecting […]

Web developers are familiar with the importance of Cascading Style Sheets when developing HTML5 apps. The basic premise is simple, standard look and feel of the elements can be described separately in a CSS definition file and without changing a lot of other code, or simply by applying a different CSS file, you can alter […]

At the recently concluded, Lean Startup Conference 2012, there was a interesting talk given by Matt Brezina of Sincerely regarding how they approach rapid mobile app development using Lean principles. This talk got me to thinking on how possibly similar principles might apply in an enterprise mobile app development world. Figure out the Minimum Viable […]

Mercedes made headlines recently with their revamped mobile site. The good news is that they were able to increase mobile traffic 85% year to date, and 170% over last year. The bad news is that when I looked at their revamped site it was evident that they didn’t account for SEO as part of the […]

Sure to spark some interest at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being held next week in Las Vegas, a new smartphone OS has been announced. Ubuntu is no newcomer to the OS space, having released the first desktop version of Ubuntu, which is based on Linux, in 2004 which now has more than 20,000,000 […]

Over the last year, I talked to a lot of clients and potential clients about their enterprise mobile strategies. I also took part in creating some mobile apps for the consumer and internal staff of enterprises. During these conversations, some recurring themes arose. Here is a brief summary of the chief concerns of enterprise mobile app […]

The holidays and the downtime allowed me the opportunity to work on some side projects.  In this case, I wanted to update the user interface of some Android mobile applications I had published a year ago.  With the advent of the Android 4.x series of releases, one of the major user interface recommendations is the […]

Written by Luke Cerny When managing PPC campaigns, it’s easy to get caught up in optimizing things like keywords, bids, and ad copy while altogether forgetting about the multitude of easy targeting options we have to take advantage of. Obviously, these recommendations must be made with the client’s goals and objectives in mind, but something I’ve […]

If you’ve ever used social APIs in your mobile or Web apps, you know that managing the connections to multiple APIs as well as being able to make adjustments quickly when they change can be a challenge. To help combat those headaches, Singly has introduced AppFabric. With AppFabric, you get a single interface with access […]

My name is Abbey Smalley, and I’m a Lead User Experience and Visual Designer for Perficient’s XD team. I have had the opportunity to work with financial institutions on various projects. In my work, I find similar user experience needs often rise to the top. Whether you’ve decided it’s time to create a mobile experience […]

I mainly write this post to the designers of our team here at Perficient, but developers can read it, too.  I stumbled upon a random website by complete happenstance and not because I’ve ever been there before, and I was struck by its responsive layout. CSS Tricks This is the kind of design I feel […]