Tips to improve your mobile optimized UX

With the tech world aligning the web experience to mobile optimization, there can be a lot of competition and confusion to the owners. Here are a few tips to improve on your mobile optimized website

Navigation

The user’s ability to navigate within your website or web app is key to user retention. Simple and consistent navigation can help users easily find what they were looking for in the first place. With latest developments in UI, navigation trends such as swipe, clicks, pinch etc should be used wisely to keep the user experience rich.

Text Font

Fonts and text size should be optimal for mobile devices. There are designs that use large text fonts, these are carefully utilized to create elegant designs and hence the primary criteria for a font size would be readability. If the text is too small or the font is complicated then the user might get stress and leave.

Scroll

Information should not be limited to a single page, but when it comes to mobile optimized sites search page after page would be a difficult, hence using the different scroll types would be ideal here. Infinite scroll and long scrolls are two primary scrolls that can be used in mobile optimized web sites and web applications.

Scalable images

Images needs to be scalable. Web site containing lot of images should be especially careful as images can be heavy which could affect the site’s performance. Hence the image should be scaled as per the device it is viewed on.

The tips here are provided to be reviewed from a user point of view. For site owners who are not tech savvy can use this information to check how their site and make the necessary changes. Here the importance of thing to remember is that any change made to the site should be reviewed from a user point and then implemented. This can make a lot of difference as far as the user experience is considered.

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IT Outsourcing

Outsourcing is strategic decision for any firm. For a firm outsourcing its projects,there are a lot of benefits as well as risk associated with it.

So why so organizations outsource?

Though outsourcing has been mainly associated with the IT industry, it has been practiced in many industries before. If you take an example, many electronic companies in the west outsource to the eastern developing and under developed countries. This is due to the reduced labor charges in these outsourced countries. So in effect the company would be reducing the production cost of their products.

Another reason can be that the outsourced country may have the key resources. For the production of certain types of metals, organisations usually set up the production unit near the source. This is also because of cost consideration, because the company can benefit more from shipping finished or semi processed products rather  than the core materials.

Quality of the resource is another criteria to be considered while outsourcing. One of the main reasons of IT outsourcing to India is a prime example. Thought cost is a consideration now-a-days,it the quality of resource that is important here.

Outsourcing has now take the form of offshore development, in many organisational aspect. 

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Agile software development and change management

Project management of software development projects using agile methodology is very popular. Change management is an important aspect of software development. Changes to the feature or function or even the scope of the project can arise during the course of development. Once the development commences accommodating changes is a difficult task for the development team but if agile methodology is used the confusion can be reduced.

Agile methodology uses iterative development and so there will be a series of development cycles for each project phase. So if a change request is made during the development phase, it can be carefully assessed without interrupting the normal development structure. 

For change requirements to be accepted and implemented, it is incorporated into the process as an iteration and hence the developer is not confused or troubled with the new change. There are several advantages of using agile methodology and that is why it has been incorporated in many of the projects management techniques used.

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Umbraco Vs WordPress

Umbraco and WordPress are two of the most popular content management systems in the world. Both Umbraco and WordPress have characteristics which make them the favorite among developers in meeting certain requirements. The features and characteristics of WordPress and Umbraco are as follows:

WordPress

WordPress is an open source cms that supports PHP and MySQL. It has a simple editor with options to add different plugins. It is suited for small website with regular content updates. Due to its simplicity many developers and companies are developing templates and plugins for users to purchase. With a wide variety of templates available it is easy to create a website with WordPress with a small turnaround time. WordPress does allow customization but it is limited to the design template.

Umbraco

Umbraco is developed for Microsoft .Net framework and supports MSSQL database. It is highly customizable and provides developers with the flexibility to incorporate unique designs and templates. The developer community of Umbraco constantly updates the technology fixing any technical issues. The content editor itself has different inbuilt features that help to manage the content effectively. Due to its flexibility and scalability it is highly preferred to develop complex websites and applications.

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