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5 Tech Issues That Can Slow Down Innovation

IdeaScale

The seeming slowdown in innovation is also partly due to expansion in outcome-based industries like finance and healthcare that are more difficult to measure than how many widgets one produces. Innovations like virtualization and utilizing proxy servers has been a boon for software research, development, and production.

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UI Pattern Documentation Review

Boxes and Arrows

Introduction User interface (UI) patterns have the potential to make software development more efficient. This characteristic and the efficiency gains make patterns an excellent opportunity for software companies to come together and promote UI patterns to the wider development community. There are two common issues, both major.

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Guidelines For Hiring the Best Software Developers

The Human Factor

This raises the difficulty of finding the top software engineers for a business given that many are bootstrapped and some are sponsored. All companies are now fundamentally tech companies, and employing software engineers is now a crucial task that greatly affects a startup’s long-term performance. Establishing requirements.

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Why Should You Conduct a Supervisor Evaluation Survey?

IdeaScale

Gone are the days where yearly reviews used to be a top-down approach. 3 important steps to follow while conducting a supervisor evaluation survey: Step 1: Use one of the survey templates offered by survey softwares such as QuestionPro and customize the questions according to the required supervisor information.

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Expert Interview Series: B.J. Shannon of TINYpulse About the Role Employee Feedback Plays in Idea Management

IdeaScale

We turned traditional engagement surveys and performance reviews on their heads and made them TINYer and more regular. If a business owner or manager were to say to you, “I don’t need a software program to spot a burned-out employee,” how would you respond? How important is it to engage the entire organization?

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Reasons for not reading or only skimming the leaflet from start to finish could be due to the amount of information or the leaflet design.

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Are Design Patterns an Anti-pattern?

Boxes and Arrows

But each pattern is essentially a mini design project with extreme documentation and design reviews. Developers operate under time pressures and need a spec to code to. Directing them to look at a pattern library means that they have to find, parse, code, and review the pattern, in addition to the wireframe.

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