Do you use different apps every day and notice things that bother you when you’re using them? Are you passionate about providing users with the best experience when using apps but don’t know where to start? Great! This Starter Kit is for someone like you. Here, you’ll find all the…

Intro “As designers, we need to accept and embrace the world of metrics and use their amazing powers to change the way we’re doing things.” — Jared Spool We’ve all found ourselves in situations where we couldn’t predict what users want, even with years of design practice and experience. …

A little bit of history FIVE’s been in mobile app development for some time. In all the years we’ve been at it, we’ve seen mobile development evolve dramatically — we’re excited to always keep up with and pioneer any new tech that comes our way! Today, you have lots of options if you want to…

Part 3: Product Growth Figure out your growth strategy or prepare for failure Although this is the third part of FIVE’s product strategy series, the previous parts — product discovery and design and development — aren’t sustainable at market without growth strategy. And while growth strategy will have a high impact on any product, it’s not impossible to master. Growth strategy is simply…

I meet and talk to at least ten different US companies every month, and besides everything else I learn from them, I also learn about their organizational structure, their talent, and their internal processes. When it comes to the number of designers other companies have on staff, what I typically…

Part 2: Design & Development In the second article in our series How To Execute A Successful Product Strategy, we’ll continue with Product Discovery and talk about what happens after completing feature prioritization and defining a deliverable scope. This post won’t talk about choosing the right technology, platform, and libraries, or scratch the surface of…

Welcome to the series This article is the first in a three-part series for product managers with limited budgets and fixed deadlines who want to see their products succeed in the market while keeping their roadmaps and cash burn under control. Here is what we will cover in three separate articles: Part 1: How…

Part 3 of a three-part blog post on writing RxSwift unit tests. Boost your unit testing productivity with Sourcery, Lenses, Prisms, and Quick/Nimble. Introduction to reactive LightSwitch app [Part 1] Writing state-dependent unit tests for business logic • XCTest and RxBlocking Writing event-dependent unit tests for business logic [Part 2] •…

Part 2 of a three-part post in which we explain how to write event-dependent unit tests for business logic using the RxTest framework. Introduction to reactive LightSwitch app [Part 1] Writing state-dependent unit tests for business logic • XCTest and RxBlocking Writing event-dependent unit tests for business logic [Github] • XCTest…