(This is a sponsored article.) The way that product teams work is changing: The software industry is quickly moving to remote work. In the US alone, 43% of employed Americans have spent at least some time working remotely, and that number has steadily increased in recent years. Many successful digital products on the market today were designed and developed by a distributed team. Such teams don't have an office in the traditional sense.

In a time where design and technology are continuously updating, many new design trends keep coming up. However, with the constant need of coming up with something new, many designers go back to old designing tricks to create a fresh look and stand out from the crowd. Same goes for icon design. One such design […] The post 10 Tips for Creating the Perfect Hand Drawn Icons appeared first on Line25.

Looking for some useful online marketing tools to help you ease your work? Take a look at our selection of free tools, which includes some of the best internet marketing tools in the business. Below you will find some of the tools that can be used to help analyze your website, improve your social media stats, […] The post 44 Online Marketing Tools Every Marketer Should Have appeared first on Line25.

As organizations and their IT infrastructure grow more complex, the number of different places where data gets stored also grows. Gone are the days where a company had just one large database to look after; now data might be stored across several different sources. "Historically data was stored in databases, on-premises. As we enter this … continue reading The post Data warehousing is crucial to unified analytics across an organization appeared first on SD Times.

There are many reasons why one may want to embed JavaScript capabilities into an app. One example may be to take a dependency on a JavaScript library that has not yet been ported to the language you're developing in. Another may be that you want to allow users to "eval" small routines or functions in JavaScript, e.g., in data processing applications. The key reason for our investigation of ChakraCore was to support the React Native framework on the Universal Windows Platform, which is a framework for declaring applications using JavaScript and the React programming model.The post Building Hybrid Apps With ChakraCore appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Behind every successful marketing strategy, there's a persuasive PowerPoint presentation. It's the presentation that helps you to convince the team to go ahead with your marketing plan in the first place. Every marketer needs to be skilled at creating slideshows and delivering engaging presentations. Of course, there's no need to enroll in a class to […]

AWS announced the release of Amazon QuickSight Q, a natural language query tool for the Enterprise Edition of QuickSight. It uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to discover the intent behind questions and is able to answer questions that refer to all data sources supported by QuickSight, according to AWS. This includes data from all AWS … continue reading The post Amazon releases new natural language query tool appeared first on SD Times.

You are a smart, well-informed person. After all, you are reading Smashing Magazine so you must be. That means you are probably already convinced that you should avoid dark patterns. Maybe you have even read the new Smashing book on Ethical Design that drives the point home. However, just because we understand that we should avoid dark patterns, doesn't mean our clients and colleagues do. No doubt you have been asked more than once to implement these questionable techniques by an ill-informed stakeholder.

Businesses rely on designers to help them build the perfect relationship with visitors. After all, as much as companies may wish it wasn't true, many consumers still judge a book by its cover. A website that fails to prioritize concepts like trust and transparency could instantly lose the confidence of its target audience. As a […] The post Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

With the decreased participation in sports due to the pandemic, sports are slowly carving their way back. There has been a lot of interruption in sports, and hopefully, going forward, we will be able to make up for it. Apart from the standard sports competitions, we also have the Olympics this year, generating huge interest […] The post 25 Free Amazing Sports Backgrounds for Designers first appeared on Line25.