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The app analytics world gets a little smaller as App Annie acquires Mobidia

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 9:36 am
Posted In: Acquisition, acquisitions, app annie, Around the Web, Business Apps, Insider, Mobidia

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Mobile app intelligence platform App Annie has acquired Canadian mobile measurement company Mobidia for an undisclosed amount. The aim of the deal is to expand App Annie’s Usage Intelligence product which gives developers insights into how consumers are actually engaging with their products. As well as announcing the acquisition, the company is opening up Usage Intelligence to all users, following the launch of its closed beta in January. The product provides data on mobile app usage in 60 countries across iOS and Android. Adding Mobidia into the mix means App Annie can now incorporate even more data and insights about hundreds of thousands of…

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Fetishization of design is a disease of our age

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 8:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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A Hipchat designer responds to a Slack designer’s claim that the way Slack looks is its ‘secret sauce.’ A lot of nicely designed products never take off or get noticed. Good design is not enough. There are so many pieces to consider and things you have to nail to get a product out ahead of the pack. Amen. Consumer-grade design in an enterprise product is great for encouraging teams to adopt it, but it doesn’t guarantee success. Yes, make your products look great, but they won’t make a bad product a hit.

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Net-A-Porter’s got a new fashion network for iPhone and Apple Watch users

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 8:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Right now Net-A-Porter is a well-established online fashion brand, known for selling designer brands directly to buyers. The market is changing, however, and with the growth in importance of ‘social’ and ‘community,’ it’s decided to refocus its mobile offering to give users more of a curated, directed shopping experience. Going further than that though, it’s also promising that the app will give brands and customers direct two-way communication channels. Available to download from May 13 for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, The Net Set will give users the expected feed of luxury fashion items, but also bakes in its own social features,…

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6 simple tips for designing copy on the Web

May06
by on May 6, 2015 at 7:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, web design

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Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app — where he develops in-app and online content. For visual case studies of IxD from top companies like Google, Yahoo, AirBnB, and 30 others, download the free e-book Interaction Design Best Practices: Volume 1. The sophistication of articulation. The flow of natural eloquence. The awesomeness of word-using-good-ness. Love it or hate it, your writing has an enormous impact on your website (or app), so you must always take care when composing textual content. After all, as Basecamp’s online book Getting Real wisely concludes, “If you…

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