How to design trust, and bake it into your software

If you’re looking to develop a new application or a website, you may not have given much thought to making it look and feel trustworthy to your potential users. Their design trust is crucial to improving adoption, usage, and retention rates.

But trust me (pun intended) it’s important.

A well-trusted, well-reviewed website or app will draw new, repeat users and boost your online presence, business, and reputation.

So how can developers and designers create and design trust?

This article focuses on elements and techniques which will enable you and your website or app to gain the trust of your users.

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What is Quality Assurance (QA)? Definition, Meaning

Let’s talk about Quality Assurance: I’m super happy to work with a company that puts a lot of energy into the quality assurance part of every single software development project.

Quality assurance is a discipline that’s overlooked and under-appreciated. We produce software, share it with the team, test it, collect feedback, ask beta testers and then do it over again. Share, test, collect, ask, repeat. Yup, that’s pretty much it.

Yet people treat quality assurance as something superficial – a few tests here, a few user feedback there, and with one big eye staring at the release button.

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Top 7 Translation Management Tools for Software Builders

As a business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with our software development.

Especially when building customer-centric products, the software text matters. Providing software in our customer’s native language impacts the user experience a lot. 

Therefore, we evaluated different platforms for software localization and wanted to share some of our findings.

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Jira vs Trello – an Overview on the Best Project Management Tool

Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content in project management.

Especially when looking at the tool side of project management. I see new tools popping up every other day.

With Jira and Trello – we looked at two primary project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks, and most importantly, their main differences.

Since Atlassian, the vendor of Jira acquired Trello, both project management tools come from the same company. But they are still competing over the same target group.

So, if you’re considering switching to Jira or Trello, this article is the right place.

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How to build a cloud-based SaaS application

More and more SaaS application businesses are taking off the ground today. And it’s great.

The SaaS business is a super-fast growing industry attracting more and more people and companies. These organizations are more and more floating applications in the cloud. Scaling in the cloud has some essential benefits and risks as well.

In this article we are going to show you how to start building a cloud-based SaaS architecture, dealing with issues of scalability and what this means for your SaaS application.

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Designing a language switch or selector: Examples and best UX/UI practices

Building a global SaaS product isn’t easy. You have to localize your product, translate your website, and make sure that everything’s still up and running.

And there might be a major UI problem, which looks like a tiny thing at first but is actually something to think about a little longer. What I’m talking about is the visualization of selecting a language.

How can you visualize the option to change languages so that your global audience can choose which language they want to use?

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15+ unknown & free WordPress plugins for developers!

WordPress is the leading content management system out there in basically any industry. Emerged as a basic CMS for blogging, it evolved into a powerful publishing tool for any kind of website or web app. Whether you’re working on company websites, online shops, or social communities. Everything’s possible with WordPress. Indeed, there are many great and mighty WordPress plugins out there for improving your websites.

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In this article, I’m going to show you 15+ unknown and free WordPress plugins every WordPress developer should know when building up his/her WordPress portfolio.

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“I didn’t know Atom could do that!”

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Atom, the code editor from GitHub, was initially released in May 2014 by the team of GitHub. As an open-source editor Atom became hugely popular over the last two years. And for some, it’s the Sublime killer. And I’m not exaggerating.

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Today, I’m going to show you the best tips, tricks, and shortcuts while using Atom. So better go pro with Atom.

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How to test your application with 5 users before you launch!

Building a successful digital product means developing products with your users and customers in mind.

89% of customers will switch to a competitor if they are not happy with your service or digital offering.

It’s as simple as that.

But the good news is: You only need to test your digital product with 5 users before you launch.

Only 5 user tests help you identify most major usability issues and, therefore, help you build better products.

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