Making Our Values Memorable
Having established our values in a descriptive enough way that it was clear what they meant, we wanted to make them easily accessible to everyone and front-of-mind in everything we did.
We embarked on a mission to make them more fun and more memorable, so we could easily refer to them. To us, this meant we would have to convey the values in less words, make them…
Among the many hats that I wear for Lextech, the one that most resonates with me is that of Project Manager. By my very nature, I am a people person. I enjoy seeing people succeed at what they do best and at Lextech, I get to lead teams of people who are exceptional at what they do! As a project manager I am held responsible for the success of every project. During those initial project…
Lextech design Team Member Ray Mayfield will be speaking at GoTo Conference on April 23rd from 12:10 – 1:00PM. Ray will be presenting “Mobile UX: Prototyping the Mobile Experience” covering: Creating iPad mockups using widgets, master objects, dynamic panels to quickly change the UX on the fly, and creating mobile prototypes using sprint methods and stories.
Interested in going to GOTO Con…
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We began in 2010 by drafting our core values for the first time. Alex and I had done this before with our other companies and we knew that core values were something that we already possessed. We just had to discover what they were, articulate them and then build our business around them. We knew too that once we articulated our values and put…
Getting mobile right the first time is critical to rolling forward a successful mobile app strategy. Big missteps up front can easily set back mobile efforts in the organization by a huge amount of time.
I’ve seen companies struggle with this time and time again and it frustrates me to no end to see them hit these pitfalls, many times knowing in advance that they are coming. The app ends…
Many organizations talk a good game when it comes to mobility, but very few treat mobile apps as a strategic, industry altering opportunity. Here’s a quick quiz to determine where your organization fits. Count how many of these you can answer with a solid yes.
1. Does your senior leadership team agree that mobility is key to future growth and support mobility related efforts?
2. Ar…
Part 1: Common Values for our Collective Core
Andy, one of our tech leads, was faced with a decision. The project he led was complete, but the client asked for one last change, one that would tip the project over the allotted amount of time by a couple of days. He wondered if he should make the change, decline or refer to his Project Manager, Aric.
Instead, he looked at the core values…
A vast majority of apps in mobile stores just shouldn’t exist. They consist of ‘me too’, lackluster apps that don’t provide any real value to the user but have catchy descriptions to trick users into installing them. With the low barrier to entry, garage developers have chased the app gold rush since the beginning and very few have been successful. That’s exactly what happens when you don’t build…
Mobile apps can impact businesses in lots of positive ways, however to achieve game changing impact you need to integrate your mobile apps with enterprise data, and that means finding ways to distribute and augment data from systems that were not necessarily built to work with mobile devices.
How to determine what you can and can’t do …
There are many ways to approach the problem of…
Hey everyone,
Welcome to another article that I hope many of you will find useful if, like me, you have to manage multiple Mac computers at home or work.
Enter OS X Server!
Why OS X Server?
Amongst some of the features that OS X Server provides are:
Centralized File Sharing for disks connected to your server or folders with the server itself. You can have UNIX permissions and access…