Delivering a project to a support team is a bit like bringing a cake to the office on your birthday. If you zoom in on the cake-bringing process, there are indeed some comparisons to supporting a project. In both situations, you have to consider… the load. How many colleagues will there be to have a bit of your cake? the choices [...]
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In this third monthly design review, we highlight the importance and benefits of creating a component style guide for your IT project(s). We supply a thorough explanation and use examples of our own implementations. What is a component style guide? A style guide is a form of documentation that conveys the visual language of a brand or a [...]
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Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a well-known psychologist, wrote a book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow about behavioral economics. He discovered that the economy is not based on abstract mathematical and rational decisions, but rather on irrational decisions. In fact, he translates that into two systems in our brain. System 1 is the [...]
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Suppose you’re a Product Owner in an Agile delivery team, ready to get working on your product. In order to do that, you’ll need to give your development team a goal and a list of things to work on. If you use SCRUM as the framework, you’d call that list of things to work on a Product Backlog. From the SCRUM guide: The [...]
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As promised in the blog post discussing our blog survey’s results and starting today, we’re doing a monthly showcase of a project which our designers are currently working on. Each month, a different team member gives a detailed explanation on their process, decision making or some insightful tips in order to share knowledge. Today, Gert [...]
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In this second part of this blog post series I will share my learnings on creating a notes app. We will handle creating, updating and deleting notes and adding authentication. Please find part one of this blog post series here, in which we have set up our Firebase database and Vue application to display notes. What are we creating? [...]
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Yes, you read it correctly. This article is not about motivating people, but about demotivating them. Motivating people is boring. As a consultant, motivation of people is considered important. But after a few years, you know all the tips and tricks, and it bores. So I became a demotivation coach. After years of experience and a lot of [...]
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Nowadays, loads of functionality that once got taken care of in the backend is shifting towards the frontend. As a frontend designer, I’ll show you how to create a simple SPA (Single Page Application) without the hassle of maintaining a backend. What are we creating? We will make a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application [...]
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Almost all freelancers enormously enjoy the freedom that freelancing brings with it. For the ones doing only off-site projects the benefits are numerous: choosing their own office hours, taking on the projects that interest them most, working from anywhere, … IT freelancers, however, are often asked to take on projects at their [...]
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One of the hardest things you will ever have to do as a freelancer is determining your rates. If you charge clients too much money, they won’t want to work with you. If you don’t charge them enough, you won’t earn the money to live your life comfortably. So establishing the right price for your services is crucial. Many [...]
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