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Last Thursday, Matthew gave a talk to the students of Makers Academy about some of the lessons we learned building the Trade Tariff for HMRC & GDS. Makers Academy, a training institution based in London, runs a high-intensity web application development course, where the students…
When delivering an SaaS product, there are a wide range of costs you need to take into consideration. Aside from your initial outlay, if you want to achieve a gross profit of 80% (a figure that is typically recommended to base your SaaS business model…
In the last two posts we considered how to organize search results and what to do if there are no results. This post will look at what information is displayed in the individual search listing. How we display individual search result items has a significant…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…