Apple WWDC 2013: iOS 7 Feature Police

Taking a cue from fashion bloggers across the web, CURTIS Digital polled our mobile enthusiasts about a few of the major features of the newly announced iOS 7 from the Apple WWDC 2013 Conference. Here are their thoughts!

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TechCrunch Austin Meetup and Pitch-Off

Itโ€™s awesome working in technology. Itโ€™s even more awesome working in technology in Austin. The small-city vibe encourages a sense of camaraderie amongst all of us that work in this field. It is the perfect environment for startups to share their ideas, and the TechCrunch event last night proved that we Austinites have much to offer the tech world.

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Twitter’s Recent API Changes and How It Affects Your Business

Twitter has made indefinite changes to the way third-party apps use Twitterโ€™s application interface (API). Although warning went out this summer that the change was coming, no one expected it to be this drastic. How drastic the changes are and how these changes will affect your business depends on several aspects, which Iโ€™ll outline here.

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Findability vs. Searchability – What’s the Difference and Why Should You Care?

Far too often the terms โ€œfindabilityโ€ and โ€œsearchabilityโ€ are used interchangeably, but are they the same thing? The answer in short-no, but why should you care? Although the words find and search are used as synonyms, there is a big difference between something being findable and something being searchable.

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Amazon Solid State Drive Benchmarks

One big missing feature from the cloud and namely Amazon was its disk speed or disk i/o performance.

Here at CURTIS Digital we care a lot of about speed, as an early adopter of solid state drives I have been on the lookout for a server offering more specifically a cloud offering that could let us leverage the speed we have on all of our workstations for our deployed applications.

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MTV Names Artist Growth Best Music App

Austin, TX โ€“ CURTIS Digital, a leading technology service company, is proud to announce the app it developed for Artist Growth has been named Best Music App by the MTV O Music Awards.

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Developing a Cross-Channel UX Strategy

User Experience Designers (UXD) architect interfaces for several device and platform types. And, we must have a general understanding of how our design may be rendered in all of them โ€” mindful of all the details and elements that maintain the brand identity while also adhering to business objectives and advocating for the end-users.

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AWS Glacier – Big & Slow But Cost-Effective & Good

When it comes to cloud services and software, Amazon has been one of the pack leaders for quite some time. The company recently released a new cloud storage service that promises to revolutionize how businesses consider their backup needs.

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Should a UX Designer Know How to Code?

Is the architect expected to know everything about construction or welding?

This topic of discussion has been passed around the Internet for quite a few years now and elicits passionate responses from both sides as well as every point of view somewhere in the middle.

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Reasons to Have UX in the Development Cycle

Most technology products are designed to be used by a person, making the analysis of user experience (UX) an important factor in their design and development. UX is more than just designing a good user interface, a stylish and eye-pleasing design, usability testing, bug fixing, or customer satisfaction.

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