Culture
Vincit’s CEO of the Day Program: A Roundup
What decision would you make?
Technology
Despite Common Concerns, Headless eCommerce May Be the Easier and More Effective Option
Headless eCommerce concerns? Never fear, Vincit is here!
Culture
PODCAST: How Employee CEO for a Day Program Can Scale Your Organization
Vincit CEO, Ville Houttu, joins Rick Girard on the Hire Power Radio Show to discuss.
Technology
What is UX Strategy? And How Can it Create the Customer Journey?
UX strategy is a detailed plan to align the user experience and brand with the organization’s objectives and goals
Culture
Vincit USA Named to Inc. 5000 List
Vincit Recognized as One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies
Design
A Vincit Guide On How to Create a UX Strategy
UX strategy focuses on creating a flexible outline of where your company is now, your goals for the future, and ideas you can implement in order to get there.
Technology
Shopify Plus vs. Magento 2 Commerce: Which Platform is Best For You?
The following guide compares Shopify Plus and Magento 2 and their features to allow you to select the ideal eCommerce platform for your business & ecommerce needs.
Technology
How Smiles Kept Our Office Safe
Find out how our custom doorbell project fittingly helped our team return to work safely.
Vincit Talks
Driving Dealership Revenue Through Digital Marketing Transformation
Yamaha's Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications, Andrew Cullen shares actionable tips on prospect aquistion, social media automation, and text based communication.
Technology
Designing and Developing Digital Accessibility
Jarno Ojala, Ismail Amin, and Tuukka Ojala discuss what you need to know about about ADA web development and design.
Technology
What is Shopify Plus?
The buzz around the latest additions to Shopify, namely Shopify Plus, continues to receive more and more attention as companies are migrating towards the Plus upgrade. However, many of our customers have asked us: what is Shopify Plus? Well, let this quick blog post be your guide to the ins and outs of the new and improved Shopify Plus.
Technology
Utilizing PubNub for Real Time Member Communication
Nikki Kuritsky and Otto Kivikarki discuss the significance and strategy to create real time member communication using PubNub for Chief.com.
Technology
How to Design & Develop a Mobile Health Application
Health Apps are key in allowing healthcare organizations to become more efficient, robust and better able to meet the needs of the community in an organized manner. Today, we’ll walk through the crucial steps of designing and developing a Mobile Health Application.
Vincit Talks
Urban Armor Gear Design and Development Approach
Cameron Sagey and Viet Le discuss how the Urban Armor Gear (UAG) project was designed and reasons behind using [headless commerce](https://www.vincit.com/blog/what_is_headless_commerce) Shopify and Gatsby.
Technology
Should you update your ecommerce amid a culture shock?
In light of tough times, it has been noted that the infrastructure of American workforce can suddenly, and without warning, become centered around remote work, scarce business opportunity, and low-and-slow economic exchange. This type of “crash” can seem like a perfect time for a business to panic, but we’re here to tell you how to handle it properly and without fear.
Technology
How to tell if your Application Needs an Overhaul or Small Upgrade
The question has been around as long as software development has been around–should I completely rebuild my app or can I get by with incremental updates?
The answer? You're going to love this. It depends on many factors.
Don’t worry, I won’t leave you there. Today I’ll go through the different factors that will ultimately help you make the best decision.
Technology
Getting Started with AWS DevOps using AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify allows developers to effortlessly integrate powerful AWS services into their mobile and web apps. With Amplify, we can manage scalable backends, easily integrate our backend with our frontends, and automate application releases seamlessly.
Technology
How to Select Your Software Development Agency
Get to know the people behind the service. The road to success is paved with asking the right questions. Select a supplier that is able to give you convincing answers.
Podcast
Duck Tapes Transcript: Native Modules and Blockchain with Adem Bilican
Adem Bilican plops into the duck pond this week to share his experience coming from native development with Java and Objective-C to working in React Native. Adem gives his advice (and encouragement!) regarding how to create your own native modules and exposing native functionality to the javascript thread. Also, he tries to get me to understand blockchain and cryptocurrency (with varying success).
Podcast
Duck Tapes Transcript: Code School life with Alex Aranda
In this episode, Alex Aranda discusses his current enrollment in a coding bootcamp, his motivation for switching careers, and strategies for his job hunt in the tech industry after he finishes the program.
Podcast
Duck Tapes Transcript: React Native with Gant Laborde
Gant Laborde jumps in the duck pond to talk React Native, agency life, Progressive Web Apps, and running Chain React Conf in Portland each year.
Podcast
Rachel Valentine Mix!
Rachel Valentine joins us this week on Duck Tapes! Rachel excels as the Head of People for our Vincit California offices, and this week she shares how YOU can impress her and ace all of your future developer interviews! Listen Today!
Podcast
William Candillon Mix! - React Native
William Candillon joins us this week on Duck Tapes! William is the creator of the YouTube series 'Can It Be Done in React Native?', and is sharing his tips and tricks for solving beautifully complex mobile animations in React Native! Listen Today!
Technology
Creating real-time apps with PubNub and React
PubNub is an easy to use, well documented and well-supported platform for enabling real-time capabilities for web, mobile, IoT and backend applications through their selection of over 70 SDKs. In addition to its Pub/Sub messaging, PubNub lets the user add additional functionality, such as filtering or modifying messages via serverless Functions, manage read/write access via the Access Manager and recognize device & user state via Presence.
Podcast
React Native Mix Vol.1!
First episode of our First series! Welcome to React Native: Getting Started! We are joined by special guest and fellow blogger Otto Kivikärki, a React Native specialist and our First returning guest!
Podcast
Wes Bos Mix!
We're coming back hot with the great Wes Bos! Wes joins us to share amazing details of his journey from customizing friends' Myspace profiles to teaching HUNDREDS of thousands of students through his personal online courses!
Culture
5 Ways to Keep Employees Motivated
Creating a culture where people have a sense of ownership and they feel appreciated.
Technology
An Introduction to React Hooks
A quick-look at the possibilities of React Hooks.
Technology
Kickstart your GraphQL API with Hasura
We will take a look at how we can accelerate our GraphQL API development using Hasura.
Technology
SummAR of ’17 Part 2: Development Edition
In a previous blog post about my summer at Vincit, I went over some general information and user experiences about HoloLens. This post picks up right where the last one ended and offers some insight in to the development process for HoloLens.
Technology
How we stream events at Vincit
Vincit was founded in Tampere in 2007 but it has since expanded to Helsinki, Turku and all the way to California. Every month we have an internal meeting where we go through what has happened during the previous month. Here's how we do it.
Technology
Five more reasons why buying software development could save your startup (Part 2)
Hopefully, you read my colleague and my own writing about how to buy a so-called development rescue a startup company. I will continue to list with five more reasons that will come from a business perspective.