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Retail Won't Disappear — It'll Become a Blended Experience

For all its success, e-commerce can't replicate the in-store experience.

5 in-store Technologies That Will Save the American mall

In an article on Retail Dive we discuss the emerging technologies that have the potential to save the American mall.

How to Design a Chatbot Your Customers Actually Want to Talk To

Even for experienced product designers, building a personable chatbot is a big undertaking. Take these four steps to design one that your customers truly want to talk to.

Who Should Your Chatbot Be? 5 Personalities Users Will Love

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach when building a bot with personality.

Applied Agile: A Methodology To Make Your Product Development More Strategic

In an article on Innovation Enterprise, we discuss how Applied Agile can help product development, yes, but also other problems across the company.

Kill That Project Dead! (Or at Least Rethink It.)

By embracing experimentation, founders can save money, boost sales and build stronger products.

Our Favorite Mobile Product Design Tools

After trying dozens of different tools, we at Yeti use the following four for nearly every mobile design project.

CEOs: Invest in UX Design With These 3 Tips or Get Left Behind

A poor user experience is enough to drive away seventy-five percent of your online customers.

5 Steps to Spur Innovations Forward

Innovators must be managed in a way that empowers, focuses, and challenges them.

How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences Can Reengage Retail Shoppers

Retailers live and die by the customer experience, so it's little wonder why they're diving headlong into augmented and virtual reality product development.

Rules of the Game: 5 Common Creative Brief Mistakes to Avoid

Your brand absolutely needs a creative brief before it sets sail on product development. But creative briefs are easy to botch — and even easier to forget about entirely, so watch out for these five creative brief mistakes.

Busting 5 App Development Myths

The following are five pervasive myths about why app development should be a simple process — and the real reasons that a good product takes time.

When Slower UX is Better UX

There are certain situations in which a slower UX can actually increase user trust and engagement. Learn more in this Webdesigner Depot article.

Hire These 5 Developers on the Spot

Thinking about hiring a developer? Here's what to look for.

5 Digital Technologies That Are Transforming Healthcare

Learn more about the five digital technologies paving the way to better healthcare.

3 Lessons Yeti Learned Designing a Chatbot for the City of San Francisco

Now that PAIGE 1.0 is streamlining city procurement for the city of San Francisco, we've tucked some valuable lessons under our belt. Here are our takeaways.

Bridging the Gap Between Government and Technology through STIR

Several months ago, as part of the 2017 STIR initiative, the city of San Francisco presented several challenges that the city felt technology startups could help solve. Startups from around the Bay Area presented their solutions and nine startups were selected to present their solutions at City Hall during the Demo Day event on September 29th.

3 Roads Less Traveled for Management-Averse Developers

Many developers' personalities and skill sets are well-suited to these three "unconventional" career paths.

Cool Tricks with Animations Using requestAnimationFrame

This function is built-in to many modern browsers and is an API that enables developers to script animations by essentially "painting" the desired styles one frame at a time, and then calling itself to paint the next frame.

Establishing a Websocket PUBSUB server with Redis and Asyncio

This post in particular covers how to leverage a PUBSUB (publish-subscribe) Redis server and websockets to this purpose.

Setting Up a Light Sensor with an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi

The goal for this blog post is to showcase the following: Produce an Arduino that writes to Serial the current ambient light level, connect an Arduino to a Raspberry Pi via USB port, and tead the light levels on the Raspberry Pi that the Arduino is writing.

Set Up a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian, running Python 3.5

I wanted to have a Raspberry Pi that checks the following boxes, OS: Raspbian and Python Env: Python 3.5 (installed and routed to with Pyenv). Here's what I came up with.

7 Top Tools for Mobile Product Development

We’ve created this guide of our seven favorite tools for mobile product development. Not every tool for every job is listed, of course. But for the average app project, the following are our go-to tools

3 Mistakes Your Product Development Team Might Be Making

In our experience, the most common errors made by product developers are these three thing.

Get the Most Out of Git: 7 Best Practices for Budding Developers

A few of our favorite best practices for developers using Git.

10 Tips For Designing & Developing an App That Keeps Users Coming Back

10 best practices for designing and developing a successful app.

Does Your Creative Brief Contain These 10 Elements?

A quality creative product brief, like the one our healthcare client shared with us, contains the following 10 elements.

5 Common App Design and Development Mistakes to Avoid

A little foresight can prevent app snags like store rejections, poor sales, and sneaky malware. During development and design, be sure to avoid the following errors.

How to Manage Your Innovation Team Without Quashing Creativity

A successful innovation team requires hands-on craftsmanship from top decision makers, creating a culture of constant challenge and consistent improvement.

5 Startups That Could've Been Saved By Stronger Product Roadmaps

When developing a product roadmap, it’s essential to tap someone who understands the delicate balance between business, technical, and user needs.

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