Technology is evolving at a fast pace.
We keep repeating this because this aspect of technology affects the industry’s entire approach if we don’t make an effort to listen to our market’s needs, as they’re following technology’s course thoroughly. More specifically — the more rapid the technological development, the more diversified our customers’ needs, and companies can no longer stay for an important period of time on the market with just one type of product or service.
Thus, we turn to Exploring Technologies and go back to some of the most important pieces of advice we gathered from so many editions of Techsylvania:
Based on his experience with Slack, Jeremy presented the underlying of Electron, an open-source framework that gives you more freedom when creating an app and doesn’t limit you to create traditional desktop apps. Given that there’s a huge community that builds open-source projects with Electron, resources are easier to get to and it enables more users to connect their ideas.
“Electron enables you to build apps that your users will love.”
“The reason I do Ubuntu is that I cannot think of a better way to accelerate technology & entrepreneurship around the world.”
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and space tourist — Mark Shuttleworth talked about how he can enable people faster towards their vision, through Ubuntu.
Ubuntu, or how they call themselves “the fastest way to go from development to production in IoT” is an open-source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all internet-connected things. As Mark stated, this system can help people who are not satisfied with what technology is dong today and they want to create the next wave of things.
Eric Wood from Telenav dived deeper into the technicalities of UX, making sure first of all that everybody differentiates it from UI. Wherethrough great UX stands out through collaborative design, Eric pointed out the key collaboration moments:
- Business goals
- Persona & goals (UX research)
- User epics, stories & UX concept design
- Backlog grooming
- Sprint planning + UX preflight review
“Focus on collaboration and shared understanding over detailed documentation artifacts.”