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Vincit CEO, Ville Houttu, joins Adam Grant on the Work/Life podcast to discuss culture and Vincit's CEO for a Day program.

Yay awards!

An efficient UX strategy will include research, an extensive brand audit, and a deep understanding of the benefits of an exemplary user experience.

Experiencing sales growth as a direct result of the investing in the digital experience.

Consider the innovative features that will make your web and mobile visitors feel ready to buy or rent, even if they’ve never set foot on the property.

Now is the time for strengthening, reinforcing and redefining your company culture. Our own Rachel Valentine shares her thoughts.

Let’s talk about the ecommerce development process and the specific steps you need to take to prove your company profitable without added stress on your end as a business owner.

And just like that 2020 is almost over! The last few months at Vincit has been a whirlwind. Navigating through this unprecedented time has been quite the challenge, but we’re happy to report that Vincit is continuing to move upward and onward.

With an economy becoming much more reliant on ecommerce, we’ve recently helped many businesses with the build of Shopify Plus, so leveraging our experience to discuss the costs and other needs involved in moving to Shopify Plus comes with a hint of knowledge.

Consider generating code from your GraphQL schemas in your next project. It can improve your development workflow by having less code you’d need to write which is less code you’d need to maintain and in turn would be less error prone.

The evolution and development of healthcare applications has significantly changed throughout the years. Let us take a look at the top trends of 2020 that will shape the industry.

For a mobile app to grab the attention of its target customers and be a break-out success, it needs a structured and effective marketing strategy that supercharges the app’s e-store listing.

The American Advertising Foundation of Orange County recognizes Vincit's achievements at the 2020 ADDY Awards.

In a time of so much uncertainty, you may begin to experience feelings of confusion, stress, and anxiety. Avoiding these emotions can be difficult when all you see are mass closures, empty shelves at the grocery store, and social distancing. Some of us may feel powerless and hopeless adjusting to this “new norm” but with the proper coping mechanisms you won’t need to worry.

Developers Himaja Suman and Anika Corpus from Cox Automotive take us through Kelley Blue Book's decision to implement microservices and how it improved the development process for their engineers.

Whether you are going in house or working with a software development vendor, there are universal practices to ensure a successful working relationship. Today, I’ll walk you through what this successful software development relationship looks like.

Creating mobile user interfaces for Apple devices is getting better with the new SwiftUI framework!

At Vincit California we are excited to announce that our top-notch custom software development and our glowing reputation have earned us a spot on the 2019 Clutch 1000.

James Snell recently spoke at a NodeJS OC event, giving a presentation entitled "A QUIC bit of fun with Node.js." Read a full transcript of the talk here.

When properly utilized, outsourcing can help streamline your business operations more strategically and help you gain a competitive advantage. In software development, outsourcing can yield the highest quality results most efficiently but it's significant to know when and how to outsource software development.

Laurence Bradford joins us this week on Duck Tapes! Laurence is the founder of the immensely popular Learn to Code with Me podcast and blog! She has dedicated her career to educating and encouraging developers as they continue to practice their skills and grow their careers! Today, you can Learn to Code with Laurence on Duck Tapes!

The self-taught, public learning SWYX joins us on Duck Tapes! Currently working with Netlify's DX team, he strongly advocates for people to learn in public!

We welcome Eemeli into the duck pond! He has extensive experience working on multiple open source projects, and shares with us his coding process (and how he helped bring WorldCon to Helsinki for the first time)!

We welcome Kent C. Dodds! We had a great conversation with Kent discussing his amazingly successful JavaScript Testing course, participation in open source projects, and fantasy novels!

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Vincit visited JSConf Hawai’i in February 2019. Here's our findings about the conference.

The importance of supplier recognition.

Ever made an app that is impossible to use? There’s a chance you have. Technology users are a diverse bunch, which means that some of your users are using your app much differently than you would expect.

Even though Augmented Reality is still young, the AR hype train is gathering momentum steadily, as more and more companies invest in the technology.

“Something’s a little bit off here.” That’s what I predict your first thought to be upon seeing my cubicle for the first time. There’s no screen or mouse in sight. Instead there’s a guy hammering away on a keyboard, staring at seemingly nothing.

Celebrating Ville's accomplishment!

Former HP Sales Director Harry Ollikainen joins Vincit After Relocating from Finland

And it's going to be great! Read on...

Read about or watch our latest Vincit Dev Talks event on the topic of improving online customer experiences through modern technologies.

How to create a quick and easy app with Azure App Service and Twilio by utilizing the free Twilio SMS integration, Azure Function and serverless coding!

Vincit US is pleased to announce the acquisition of VURIA™, a website design and mobile app development firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

To know where we're going, we must reflect on where we've been. Here are a few highlights of our 2020 at Vincit.

Let's take a deeper dive into what the future of work looks like and creating an employee experience that's empowered by flexibility and adaptability.

Healthcare applications are becoming increasingly popular in the tech space because of their innovation and cutting edge features. However, for healthcare organizations that are looking to add technology into their business, or entrepreneurs looking to jump into the industry, it is important to note that healthcare applications are a different beast when it comes to development.

Sean Richards sits down with Dustin Gyger to discuss eCommerce strategy, user experience design, and evolving customer engagement.

Sean "Swyx" Wang shares successful career tips and interviewing advice for developers transitioning from a junior to senior role.

Is React Native the perfect fit for your project? Before you decide to develop with this mobile app framework, consider the following perks and drawbacks.

Gant Laborde talks about using Javascript for AI and Machine learning, in his own very entertaining way.

Here at Vincit California, we have helped clients from Fortune 500 healthcare companies to small healthcare start-ups develop their healthcare applications. Through our wide range of experiences, we have found that the healthcare industry has some unique requirements that many other verticals who are developing applications do not have to consider.

With the growing number of companies considering the switch to remote work, here are some useful tips and suggestions from our experience at Vincit to help those looking to transition into telecommuting operations.

Profit by striving for simplicity. Dig deep into the core of your idea and hold on to it with all your might. Just say ‘no’ and increase the value of your project by leaving out all gimmickry.

2019 was a thrilling year at Vincit California.

I love painting and painting is fun. What's also extremely fun is using a fascinating technique in Deep Learning known as Style Transfer to make an ordinary picture assemble some most famous artists' styles and create your very own piece of art. In this post I will show you some fun experiments I did with various styles.

Container orchestration, controller managers, worker nodes with kubelets, what does it all mean? If you're confused or just curious about Kubernetes, you've come to the right place.

A look at form vs function from a UX designers perspective

This blog post discusses tokens and their implementation considerations used by OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols.

Healthy client-vendor relationship is always a two-way street and software development is no exception.

Nader Dabit shares his AWS expertise! DevOps is more intimidating than it is difficult, especially with AWS Amplify.

Scott Tolinski hops into the duck pond to discuss break dancing, working for Ford, working for himself, and developing Level Up Tutorials. At some point a baby and a dog make an appearance. Join us, and come hear from Scott!

Learn the most advanced recruiting techniques. Land the most desirable talent. Launch your company towards massive success. This is the Hire Power Radio Show with Rick Girard.

How one of the Beatles’ most famous songs is actually a groundbreaking early look at life in the tech industry.

Storybook is an environment for developing interactive component libraries for the most popular frontend frameworks, such as React, Angular and Vue. It allows everybody who's participating in a project, including designers, developers and even the customer, to interact with the designed components.

Gather around and hear the origin story of the infamous Vincit VW Bus

As we race into 2019, here is a quick video and update of all the exciting things that happened for Vincit California in 2018

In case YAML is not a familiar term, it brands itself as a "human friendly data serialization standard", and as such it's one of the most common configuration file formats that are currently in use.

There often is quite a bit of confusion about what “UX designers” and “service designers” actually do in a software project.

We've got a "Fun Committee" who come up with fun team building events each month. There's no stuffy CEO coming up with painfully boring events, the team plans them.

Headless eCommerce concerns? Never fear, Vincit is here!

Vincit CEO, Ville Houttu, joins Rick Girard on the Hire Power Radio Show to discuss.

UX strategy is a detailed plan to align the user experience and brand with the organization’s objectives and goals

This article is all about how to use RxSwift with MVVM. RxSwift has been a hot topic in the swift community for a few years now, but somehow I've managed to avoid it.

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.

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.

Find out how our custom doorbell project fittingly helped our team return to work safely.

Yamaha's Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications, Andrew Cullen shares actionable tips on prospect aquistion, social media automation, and text based communication.

Jarno Ojala, Ismail Amin, and Tuukka Ojala discuss what you need to know about about ADA web development and design.

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.

Nikki Kuritsky and Otto Kivikarki discuss the significance and strategy to create real time member communication using PubNub for Chief.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

Creating a culture where people have a sense of ownership and they feel appreciated.

A quick-look at the possibilities of React Hooks.

We will take a look at how we can accelerate our GraphQL API development using Hasura.

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.

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.

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.

Another award for Vincit!

Take a look at our CEO's winning speech from the Nordic Business Forum's Speaker Contest semifinals.

Headless commerce architecture is decoupled architecture that’s designed to push content to any platform through APIs. With this approach, the architecture focuses on background processes to keep the data accessible to separate front-end applications with commerce APIs.

Vincit Recognized as One of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies

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.

We highlight the key differences between Shopify vs Shopify Plus to best decide how to scale your e-commerce business.

Chakra UI is an up and coming component library that helps you build accessible, composable, and styleable components very quickly.

Outer Realm CEO, David Gull discusses how businesses can leverage VR and AR to create innovative and personalized customer experiences.

We constantly hear stories about programmers, freelancers, and even students creating countless amazing applications and businesses, but why can’t healthcare organizations seem to do the same thing? Today, we’ll dive into the answers to this question in order to help you understand exactly why healthcare application development is so complex and unique.

As more and more consumers become health conscious, there has been a significant increase in the use of healthcare apps to manage medical information and appointments. This trend has caused great amounts of HIPAA protected information to flow through these apps as patients and healthcare professionals alike use them to manage information and schedules.

Gatsby is a free, open-source framework for building websites and applications. In this article we walk through the steps to set up a Gatsby site pulling data from a headless CMS (DatoCMS), [headless commerce](https://www.vincit.com/blog/what_is_headless_commerce) and deploy to a CDN like Netlify for free! We also discuss the possibilities of building a full-blown dynamic Gatsby site using Netlify Functions and Netlify Identity

As the business community continues to reel from the fast changing times, more and more businesses must evaluate developing an ecommerce site. For those businesses that are looking to shift more or all of their business online, we’ll walk through integrations that are important to a successful ecommerce site.

Custom fonts are great, until you notice they're just a bit off on your iOS and android builds... Here's a way to make them more consistent in your react-native projects

Because there are so many unique considerations and nuances to account for in the healthcare industry, Mobile Health App Development is not like other app development projects. If developing or refreshing a mobile health app is in the pipeline for your business, ensure the success of your app by following the following considerations.

Hamid Badiozamani and Di Le from BrainCorp discuss how their company designs and builds robots that have to deal with the complexity that comes with interacting with humans while performing their designated tasks.

If you’ve been in the business for a long time, you’re probably designing and developing your web content using “desktop first” practices. That has been the industry standard for years. After all, the web was born on desktop devices, and it’s hard to depart from decades of this legacy experience and thinking. However, it may be time to switch things up. The success of your business depends on it.

Make using redux fun again using the Rematch library

Curious about how Kubernetes works? Here's the second part of a blog post that will help catch you up to speed.

Do you speak the same language as your software development supplier? Are you on the same page? Are their operations transparent enough? Or is your project in danger of crashing off the road in the first curve?

It's 11/23—Happy Fibonacci Day! Some interesting facts about the peculiar number sequence.

Jonny Burger joins us this week on Duck Tapes! Jonny is a serial hackathon participant and Winner, an independent app developer, and a dedicated runner (over 1337 days in a row!!) Learn his secrets to success in this week's episode!

An overview of the changes added to React DevTools 4.

Well I hope you enjoy listening to myself and John when we interview guests, because this week we are interviewing each other! Get to know (way too much) more about us in this week's entertaining, tech podcast mix!

The importance of UX, from a business perspective.

A more collaborative approach, getting back to the roots

From Stark Headquarters, in Irvine, California, in the heart of Orange County, brings you Episode 22 of The C-Life: Removing Middle Management and Building a Trusting Company.

This is part of a series of blog posts written over the last six years. The blog posts are about mobile development technologies. They don't go really deep into the technical details, but rather provide an overview of the techs: when you should use them and when not to.

Here are a few of the most common Product Owner related issues that many development teams are experiencing.

How functional programming in Clojure made me a better person

Subcontracting is stupid. I used to believe in this statement with all my heart. Especially outsourcing software development gave me an image of big balls of mud being produced by a faceless herd of Elbonian programmers.