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From Detection to Prediction in Remote Patient Monitoring
CHARM-COPD Project Snapshot Who: Researchers at the University Health Network (UHN), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and the University of Toronto (all in Toronto) What: Remote patient monitoring app for COPD patients, which is designed to capture daily symptom changes and treatment adjustments Features: Future Expansion: Developing a programmable platform to adapt to other conditions (hypertension,… Read More
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How To Build A Great Mobile App Landing Page For Your Launch
Your new mobile app is pixel perfect. You’re in the middle of trying to raise money or develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It’s going to be the coolest app on the market, but all you have in hand right now are visual designs. How do you get early adopters (other than your friends and… Read more
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The Ultimate Guide To Understanding User Experience Design
Want to hear a crazy stat? 88% of online consumers are less likely to return to a product after a bad experience. And that number is constantly on the rise. This means that products that aren’t optimized for an ideal user experience is at risk of losing 88% of their potential users. So if your user experience isn’t built with your… Read more
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Mobile Design Best Practices: Why Old Tricks No Longer Work
There’s something special about turning on the radio and hearing a classic hit from your teens. It’s a blast from the past that sends you into a moment of nostalgia and memories. While old music conjures up good feelings, old design trends can quickly turn a mobile experience on its head. If you’re not up-to-date… Read more
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How To Know When You’re Ready To Launch A Mobile App
Want to hear something kinda crazy? Over the past few years, the app development and design team at MindSea has collaborated on, redesigned, built from scratch and launched literally hundreds of mobile apps. (That’s not even counting the apps that our people worked on before joining our team.) We use a consistent, tested process to… Read more
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5 Ways That Startups Are Going To Use Mobile To Disrupt Industries
We’ve all seen the buzzword disruption thrown around over the last couple of years. Nowhere is disruption easier to see than in a mobile phone. According to PEW Research, in the U.S. alone, 95 percent of the population has a mobile phone. And as of 2014, there were more mobile devices on the planet than… Read more
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How To Recruit, Attract And Close The Best Product Designers
The demand for quality product designers is insane. In 2016, product designers were the most in-demand talent in the tech industry according to recruitment company Onward Search. And in John Maeda’s 2017 Design In Tech Report, this sentiment was shared loud and clear: This means one thing for startups, brands and agencies: competition. It’s a competitive… Read more
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When Should Early Stage Startups Hire UX Designers?
Congratulations. You closed your first round of funding, launched your minimum viable product or maybe even bootstrapped your way to a handful of paying customers. Now your eyes are set on the next major milestone. And as a wise person once said: You can’t get to point B doing the same things that got you… Read more
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Should Startups Outsource App Design Or Hire For It?
I think you’ll agree with me when I say that building a startup is hard. The people steering the ship have to wear multiple hats and must constantly be on the lookout for opportunities to get further ahead. As the world of startups gets more and more competitive, the search for great talent becomes more… Read more
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How To Pick The Right Agency To Design Your Mobile App
A few weeks ago, I was travelling with the team and we were stumped trying to pick a place to eat. We analyzed TripAdvisor reviews and Yelp scores and posted in Facebook groups to get advice. The response was, well, overwhelming to say the least. There were more options than we knew what to do… Read more
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Five Things Startups Need Before Launching A Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Pop quiz: What recent approach to building startups has changed the tech industry? The MVP. Also known as Minimum Viable Product. Frank Robinson coined and defined the term and then popularized by authors Steve Blank and Eric Ries. An MVP is a product with just enough features to gain insight into the product and its future. If you’re… Read more
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Why you shouldn’t be afraid to share your idea
I get a lot of calls from app startup founders. Several a day. Most of them are in a very early stage with their business. Some are at such early stage, all they have is their concept. But there’s a problem – they don’t want to share it with me. Fearing to share a concept… Read more
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How The Best App Teams Build & Launch Habit Forming Apps
What do cigarettes, liquor and Facebook have in common? They’re addictive. Or at least that was the way Y Combinator founder Paul Graham put it in his essay “The Acceleration of Addictiveness.” In the essay, Graham reveals that many of these addictive things are more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Further, he points out… Read more
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What We Learned From Studying Some Of The Top Mobile Apps For 2016
Our smartphones are increasingly becoming extensions of ourselves – and apps are responsible. App makers continue to push the envelope, innovating with newly developed functions, features and distractions you can either blame or applaud for everyone being glued to their mobile screens. In my job as Senior Product Strategist at MindSea, I help would-be app… Read more
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The Step-By-Step Process For Winning With An App Redesign
App redesigns have received a bad rap over the last few years. As mobile app creators, we’re always watching to see how the user bases of the most popular apps respond to a redesign. We watch not only how these companies conduct themselves during the rollout but also how they conduct initial user research for… Read more
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How To Conduct User Research That Drives UX Success
When an app’s UX has the mobile industry and customers drooling, it’s not magic or luck. Instead, it’s based on a deep understanding of the user, an understanding that can come from both qualitative and quantitative insights. In this post, I want to talk about the importance of attaining these insights and how design teams,… Read more
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How To Find Your Role On A Mobile Project
Is your company thinking about developing a mobile offering? Are you hoping to head up the project? Maybe even position yourself as your company’s mobile app expert? You won’t hear any naysaying from us. The MindSea team knows apps are incredibly exciting territory – especially when it’s new ground for employees and/or tech startup entrepreneurs… Read more
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To Build An Amazing Design Team, Founders Should Start Here
Today, you’re going to learn how to build an amazing design team. In most startups, design is often overlooked or seen as a nice-to-have instead of a must-have. But this mentality can quickly send startups on a one-way trip to the startup graveyard. The first thing founders need to understand when thinking about the design… Read more
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We Studied The Top 25 iMessage Apps On Product Hunt (Mobile App Research)
We recently analyzed the top iMessage apps on Product Hunt to answer this question: What factors go into creating an iMessage app that people really want? We looked at the types of iMessage apps. We looked at the role of these different apps. We looked at the user experiences of these apps. And in doing… Read more
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Why Most Apps Built By Large Companies Fail (And How To Ensure Yours Doesn’t)
When a startup enters the market and disrupts an industry leader with what seems like just a simple mobile app, it’s not magic or luck. It’s their competitive advantage. It’s their ability to do something that an incumbent overlooked or ignored. Research shows that 45 percent of large enterprises struggle to produce mobile apps. The… Read more
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5 Billion People Will Have Smartphones In 2020: Here Are 5 Predictions
A few weeks ago I ran into a new graduate at an event and he asked me a loaded question. He asked: “What do you think the world will look like in 2020?” To suggest that I could have gone on for days about this topic would be an understatement. Instead of spending hours talking about the future… Read more
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