Improving Push Notification Opt-in Rates

Posted by on Aug 22, 2014 in Design | No Comments

Shannon Levis and Alli Brian, Why People Are Turning Off Push: If you are in an industry that suffers from low push opt-in rates, can you overcome this inherent user bias? There is a preconceived notion that these kinds of apps only send self-promotional push notifications, and users have a hard time seeing their value […]

Story-Centered Design

Posted by on May 14, 2013 in Design | No Comments

We like to get functional prototypes to stakeholders as early as possible in the development process. Prototypes help frame the discussion by putting features in context, helping teams make better design decisions and uncovering edge cases. In this excellent piece on story-centered design, Braden Kowitz describes an approach that moves that kind of discussion back […]

GSM 0338 encoding for SMS

Posted by on Aug 27, 2012 in iOS, Mac OS X, Mobile Applications | One Comment

Here’s a little Objective-C helper class we wrote to make it easier to convert NSString’s to GSM 03.38 encoding on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac: Handles stripping out characters not included in the GSM0338 character set Calculates the length of a GSM 0338 string (e.g. ^,[,|,etc each require 14 bits instead of 7 Gives you […]

Verbally hits the app store with a bang

After a lot of hard work on Chris’ part it’s great to see the high ratings, praise on the web, and crazy adoption of Verbally, an assistive speech solution for the iPad. Check it out at verballyapp.com or in the app store.