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  • · Laura Paplauskaite · UX & Design

    Search UX: Good Practices with No Results

    This is a follow up blog from Good UX Practices for Organizing and Filtering Search Results, where we considered the optimal ways to organize results. But what happens when a search doesn’t return anything? There are a variety of reasons why a search might come…

  • · Laura Paplauskaite · UX & Design

    Search UX: Good Practices for Organizing and Filtering

    The purpose of the search facility is to help users find the specific information they are looking for. This ability is largely determined by the manner in which the results are displayed, making organizing and filtering an area of utmost importance in Search UX. This…

  • · Laura Paplauskaite · UX & Design

    Search UX: Improving Search Form UX

    The search facility is one of the primary ways in which users interact with a website. When search form UX is implemented successfully, anyone should be able to quickly and easily find the information they’re looking for among the wealth of data a website contains….

  • · Matthew Ford · RoR Development

    Our Hiring Philosophy For Ruby on Rails Developers

    Though the number of Ruby on Rails developers is rising, many may lack the level of experience that we require. Therefore, it is necessary to implement a strong hiring practice to identify the best candidate for a role, and ensure that new recruits are not…

  • · Laura Paplauskaite · Agile Management

    How to Plan Your Web Application

    When contacted by potential clients, we are often presented with diverse information, including links to example sites, prototypes, feature lists, and wireframes. Other clients come to us with just an idea. But how can you best identify the features and functionality you need when looking…

  • · Laura Paplauskaite · Agile Management

    Web Development Terminology

    While we are not big fans of technical jargon here at Bit Zesty, in some cases it is more helpful to use the correct term rather than rolling out a long and convoluted description of the thing in question each time. We use a few…

  • · Matthew Ford · RoR Development

    How to Create Effective Documentation for Web Applications

    Most of us know that documentation is a fundamental part of any software project, but we’ve also learned through experience that producing too much documentation of the wrong kind can be a waste of time. The aim of rapid development is to minimize waste and…

  • · Matthew Ford · RoR Development

    XML to JSON API Proxy for Quick Mash-Ups

    While building our company dashboard, which was mentioned in our previous blog post on SVG with Raphael, I came across a problem with the project management tool we use – Pivotal Tracker. The Pivotal Tracker API is only in XML, which means you can’t do…

  • · Laura Paplauskaite · Agile Management

    Our Agile Web Development Process

    Agile software development can seem like the Wild West if you are used to the more rigid Waterfall approach. However, various agile methodologies embrace structured processes that are iterative, collaborative and particularly well suited for fast changing web development. In this blog post, we give…