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[Q] A consumers prayer about good App design

Designers, programmers, managers,
Lets say You have an App in which after you have completed a demographic search you are to pick at least 3 Cities that begin with the letters "Mel" from anywhere in the world. The search report display output contains 1,000 cities in no particular order.
Question: How long would it take flipping from page to page on your phone or tablet to locate those 3 Cities that match your criteria?
If you could take the time loss multiplied by the number of similar apps multiplied by minutes wasted multiplied by total number of people using apps like these then you're going to be talking about major league waste of time and effort.
Question: Allow those same cities to be sorted in Ascending order. How long will it take now? You get the picture.
Such an extreme example is to illustrate a somewhat bothersome trend in recent application design. That after a team or individual has gone through all of the time and trouble of creating their masterpiece of an application that they abandon the final phase which involves presentation of their output/display data from in an unruly, unsorted mess thereby doing their clients, customers, fans and themselves a major disservice.
The productivity hit from wasted time can be major.
Designers, programmers, managers please remember that computers are meant to bring order and harmony into our lives not disarray and hardship. Adding suitable sorting controls and filters can help do that in a major way and lends itself under the category of best practices.
The people who use your apps on a day to day basis will be ever grateful for your thoughtfulness.
Your comment appreciated.
T.

Interesting observation/comment.......... a bit convoluted ........
In simpler terms, make an app, make sure you understand how the end user needs it to be laid out vs how you the designer thinks it should be laid out. Remember the end user Always needs to rule this argument if success is the goal

oka1 said:
Interesting observation/comment.......... a bit convoluted ........
In simpler terms, make an app, make sure you understand how the end user needs it to be laid out vs how you the designer thinks it should be laid out. Remember the end user Always needs to rule this argument if success is the goal
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's just good app design on any platform... know your user; understand how the user interacts and what the user needs.

Sorry for all of the convolution. I just seized on the pet peeve of the moment and went with it. Sometimes I forget that the very act of software development can be a black art all in itself and the wizards who perform all of the designs are but mere mortals

Job Opening: Mobile Application Developer - MOGA| Woodinville, WA

Location: Woodinville, WA
Divison: Consumer Products
Direct Report: TBD
Employment Type: Salaried; Exempt
Qualifications & Experience
5+ years of relevant experience in software development, information systems or equivalent technical environment; minimum 1-year experience in development utilizing Android SDK; iOS and/or WP7 a plus.
Proven experience delivering successful software, including customer-facing mobile applications, preferably game apps currently available via Google Play, Xbox LIVE and/or the App Store.
Solid understanding of in-app analytics and PII best practices.
BA/BS in Computer Science or related field preferred; Interactive Design a plus.
Skills & Traits
Passion for app development, focus on UX/UI, strong project management skills and attention to detail are required.
Proficiency in Java, Android SDK frameworks, XML, web-service technologies, emerging web standards (i.e., HTML 5), analytics tools (i.e., Omniture, Google Analytics).
Ability to plan, drive and complete projects. A thinker and a doer.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong problem solving abilities including an ability to influence internal stakeholders.
Ability to take initiative and demonstrate leadership.
Desire to work hard, learn fast, generate ideas and make things happen the best way in a changing environment. Willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Professional disposition/appearance, and positive attitude and outlook.
Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
Interest in video games a plus.
Duties & Responsibilities
Develop mobile applications for BDA’s Consumer Products division, creating simple interactions for complex functionality.
Work with supervisor and co-workers to prioritize projects, app features and deliverable timelines for maximum business impact.
Manage requirements, documentation, testing and participate in troubleshooting efforts within a highly matrixed organization.
Work with supervisor and creative staff/contractors to drive the process of UI design, apply user tests, specify user flows/screens and direct graphical design within the framework of BDA’s consumer brands, owning the day-to-day execution in the form of design comp reviews, functional reviews with development teams, and presentations to internal stakeholders.
Serve as company-wide mobile app subject matter expert (SME).
Coordinate content delivery with BDA’s consumer packaging teams and websites, including PowerA.com and MUNITIO.com.
Participate in creative brainstorm meetings to provide input for fresh, new ideas, vision and project direction.
Develop and maintain an effective, positive working relationship with other BDA teams and individuals.
Additional marketing responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
Occasional weekend and evening hours required.
Contact
Melissa
Only local canidates or persons willing to relcoate will be considered (no relocation fee will be paid).

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[Q] 10 reasons why your event needs an application!

Many event organizers are thinking about mobile applications. This can be called a trend thus growing number of people, especially in the business environment, use smartphones and printed brochures are losing their popularity .
As a company with a huge experience in this area we can name you at least 10 reasons why you should provide an event application for your attendees:
1. All in one device. An interactive materials format is the thing attendees always expect from you. Let them easily access an event schedule, view sessions and sponsors info.
2.Personal assistant. Maximize attendees' involvement before, during and after the event while creating their own agenda and reading about favorite speakers.
3.Extra plus for sponsors. Connect your sponsors to a very targeted audience and increase their interaction. Also, mobile app is a good way to share special offerings.
4. Map not to get lost. Insure delegates know all the venue details. Help your guests getting to the right place in time.
5. No paper trash and harm to nature. Making last minute changes in program is very tempting – with a mobile application it is easy. Care about nature - the app is more environmentally friendly.
6. Not dependent on the Internet. Do not want to be tied to the Internet? Native mobile app works efficiently in any case and no need to worry about the connection speed.
7. Simplified version of the website. Thinking about a small copy of your home page? Mobile app can contain all the information from the website and much more.
8. Prestige and modern. Information will be stored directly on your attendees' mobile devices allowing them to navigate, interact and engage with your affair effectively.
The event will be associated with doing something cool and progressive, while at the same time providing a useful service to participants.
9. Marketing tool. Attendees can download personalized application well in advance and share it with their colleagues and friends. Recommendations are the best advertisement for your affair.
10. Great for multiple events. For multiple and/or annual events this tool is a must-have.
Showcase your company logos, images and more to intended audience. Provide delegates with the info about next event in time.
With a growing number of people going mobile printed event guides becoming less desirable — creating a mobile app for the conference, event, forum or meeting is a necessity. Delegates expect nothing less. Giving them an engaging, easy-to-use tool will create a better experience and place your event well above the competition.

Looking for a Techie/Geek in Goa

Job Title
Project Coordinator - TI R&D
Location
Panjim, Goa
About the Company
91springboard is a startup co-working space and incubator, that provides space to startups and a number of service providers to work towards together to build their businesses. The space provides plug-and-play office infrastructure where startups can work and interact with other entrepreneurs. Members of 91springboard get access to a coworking space with 24X7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing & collaboration, networking and of course, a free-spirited culture that breeds innovation!
About the department
The Technology Infrastructure department is responsible for our entire network and IT Hardware. As a part of this team, you will optimize member experience when using our services and drive a culture of continuous innovation to improve our services and infrastructure. We are scaling rapidly and you will ensure that we have the technology driven means to do so.
About the position
1. Are you a person who is often lost in the world of tech and finds himself luxuriating in it?
2. Are you that person who digs deep into something just because you have hunger to know more?
3. Have you broken enough things, blown away the electronics because you were trying to fix it or improve it?
If you answered a yes to even one of the questions, you <3 technology and you are looking in the right direction. So, continue reading.
As a Project Coordinator, we are essentially looking for a person who is a tech-geek and possess strong execution skills. You will own end-to-end technology innovations at 91springboard. It requires the you to be extremely motivated, independent and passionate about their responsibilities. A geek with a lust for gadgets and tech will be right at home in this position.
You will have to speak with various stakeholders (customers, internal business heads, the internet, and competitors) to figure out what improvements to drive, how they will be realized (quality, hardware, software, vendors and price) and oversee the process of a) requirements gathering, b) prototyping the solution, and c) delivering the solution at an optimum price, keeping in mind the firm’s overall budgets. The TI-R&D Team works closely with the Project Setup and TI-Networking team on implementing finalized solutions at all the hubs.
Developers, this probably isn’t the right job for you, but perhaps you have a friend who would be a perfect fit. Tell them about this. Thanks!
Key Responsibilities
We’re looking for a strong candidate who can own and drive the following primary responsibilities of the team:
Data: Making rich data available to the company by means of creating different systems like positioning systems, visitor management systems and tracking the entry and exit times, flow and crowded areas at the hub, guest feedback and so on.
Productivity:
For Members: Includes smooth video conferencing, printing solutions and so on.
For Team: Includes computing solutions, website technology, platforms used internally etc.
Security: Leveraging technology to make our spaces a safe environment to work in. Includes Access Control Systems, CCTV, authentication systems etc.
Events: High-quality Audio/Video systems, good live streaming solutions and recording for each type (location, speaker format, audience size and engagement etc.) of event.
Community & Fun: Enhancing the community experience at the hubs via Digital Signages, good AV, gaming rooms and so on.
Documentation: Create technology documentation for the rest of the firm to learn from and emulate throughout our network of hubs.
What we have for your tech infatuations:
1. A fast paced learning and working environment.
2. The hardware, software and reading resources that you’ll need to grow from a ‘tech enthusiast’ to ‘Tech Guru’.
This job is for you if:
1. You enjoy solving problems. You love taking on difficult challenges and finding creative solutions. You don’t get flustered easily. If you don’t know the answer, you’ll dig until you find it.
2. You pay attention to the details. As far as you’re concerned, anything worth doing is worth doing right, every single time. You stay focused, and nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
3. You communicate clearly. You write well. You speak eloquently. You can explain just about anything to anyone, and you are comfortable communicating in written and on the phone.
4. You think on your feet. You like learning new things, and you can learn quickly. When things change, you know how to roll with the punches.
5. You like helping people. You get a kick out of getting people to those aha! Moments. You are patient, level headed, and cool under pressure. Teaching someone something new makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
6. You are motivated and driven. You volunteer for new challenges without waiting to be asked. You’re going to take an ownership of the time you spend with us and truly make a difference.
Extra Awesome:
1. Knowledge of coding and databases.
2. Knowledge of mobile OS and great productivity apps.
3. A gamer and comics reader. (Yes, we love hosting LAN parties.)
Year of Experience
2-3 years of exciting and playful experience of working with/studying various hardware and software technologies.
Education
A graduate in technology or computer sciences. B.Tech. or B.E. prefered
Contact @
[email protected]

Non-emergencey contact to personal device security research institutes collaborative thread

This posts here to increase the effect of sending my phones and other devices targetedly hacked files and file contents to the correct places to help forward the progress of patching the in routes and exploits used to conmlrimise my devices. im not mass generically hacked like all content marketing oriented loa pricepoint device users are. im also targetedly hacked, being a poster of evidence of organized crime. how i know this is surveying the various search results of numerous parts of code grep'd through for everything from 'usually' to 'when the' and the like and finding undocumented code); analytics traces reports screenshots etc i need to send to the correct agencies labs and engineers to effetiely take an opportunity one rarely has, not a whole lot more luck needed just to expose what ive found to get help swnding it all to the right researchers.., here to also overstep and des mceibe a social engineerig aspect to this criminal co-perogative that seems to be boiled down to a method or science always changing specific tech understanding apartide line that one would say would be inperceptible if not being lóoked for. These effects are already known, ask any journalist or researcher whos benefitted from the use of tor. do u ever get o ly search results fro. 2013 2014? ueah thats not right its 2022 and those are whats been whiddled down as passable as results to you that will derail your presumptive expectation to find usefull relevant info. like free black market oligarchay totalitarianiasm censorship of good info by masses of evil black hearted tyranical rulers. What is or was being done was not unlike untargeted hacking, wasnt unlike stalking, wasnt unlike gaslighting, was engineered by heinous psychologists under a larger tech side of a harasment as a service outfit utilizing specific individually itemized psychological attacks managed and administered from a heirerarchal chain of command involong hassers unbeknownst (effectively anyone), and salaried operative sabetuer assailant rights violators harassers, being orchestrated by a few headpieces workong to effect intimidation, harm, debilitation, eventual ruin of targets. im a lucky one to have escaped their heretounforsceen murderous grasp... technical implementation and phychological advice, and the client criminal operations, all likley make io the types involved.. and some .MOs? . A score is kept of each targets perceptable work toward outing the criminal client(most dont continually announce display post what they know under threat to their familys, i fly in the face of these intimidations and threats as ofton as possible, or as necessary. they especoally anger me and i ofton
make sure to give a speech about it if needed bwcause id say thaTs the proverbial time and place for that
the stalker or stalkers will note it all and interfere suggesting or positing jackassedly outloud (the two harasser grouping lends to this) which is being pumped as audio to the tatget , only filtered down to narrow effective frequency bands of audible sound. a effort to disturb distract frustrate is debilitating especially at length. i have audio recorsdngs of this subliminal harassment,¹¹¹i will post and have posted online. Undocmentble and likely undocumented (ie unprovable) aspects of reality, of which there are many, are derived contrieved etc by the stalkers one after the next and projected subliminally to the target as heassments, threats, psychosis induction, all to kéep reports from going to police, knowlede of anythining relevant or related from being learned basically preventing anything the target might do in the course of a day,, randomly or specifically or especially if ostensibly they were heading to the police station printing store etc. a target has to endure : Internet is filtered
friends are threatened and harssed the programs on anyones phone in the vicinity re beiing montoped to know if recording or video apps start running. Im not the only person who knows bout what i videod and posted, many involved are plausibly victims, many benefiting, profiting, buying àre monstors heartless soulless murderous enemys to mankind. How i got targeted? i was attacked by two guards at a high rise, recorded it incidentally, posted it online, in the bckground is evidence of the activities of aug fifteenth sixteenth twentyeighteen, some largescale illegal sex crime party for high rolling invertebrate clients, and not just in the background, but my interactions with the guards upclose are all evidence and the 15 mins of video as i exited the vicinity all contain evidence. They usually keep anything like video taken on a cell phone contained and from ever reaching the net, but i was recording to disk and feeling extra like it was a miracle i survived the attack gonna take the disk out for safe keeping minded also, gonna post immediately minded after evading immedite stalker harassers traveled on foot strategizing for 12 hours, went forward in visiting an art school campus, visiting the library and uploading over a simple Vpn to youtube (browser built in one if i remember correctly). My civil rights activism prior to this gave me some ability to evade gang stalker harassments, and all in all i had been being targeted digitally and had some upload strategy to use because of the same, the civil rights and land use activism i was doing videoing and posting. So the stops were pulled and full scale cmpaigns were deployed to psychologically or otherwise send me into ruin in a way that would be indetectible in any way as being foul play or at least un reportably or documentably, because tens if not hindreds had to have noticed the oddities of patterns and diversions from the norms of everything everywhere variousley i frequented. stalkers effirts were all made with intention to have effect but also to effectively obscure what was being done, why, what crime there was to reported if any, and any routes or reasons provable that i might have to seek relief from foundations for the crimes against me, so as to be able to persist and continually attack playing any and all angles of various of psychological and physiological attacks through incetivatized or otherwise achieved malfunction or alternate to normal operation of things ... this is where conputers come in, my devices were and still are if im being realistic used for and integral in facilitating this, but not without a lot of code paper trail i was expected not ever to be able to ascertain knowledge of or obtain. Largescale distributed obscured attack on individual targets isnt always viable, but ofton is it would seem... In the curse of weathering this attack i achieved slowely progress in my life , trancendance above and beyond the thercheous pitfalls and all that laid out figuritvely to ensnare me, and have atained for myself many if not a few more of my life goals as well. I have explained and exposed the immediate harassments and stalking to those being subjected to its immediate and side effects, and a page long list of other focused intentional sometimes subtle corrective or stimulating vitalization of some sort to the social and interpersonal climate within which i live life ive been, seeing as how it was being accurely poluted. it wasnt always easy or obvious but certainly something of the needed necessary and natural reaction type of measure i believe either way i know i have succeeded in the various ways i went about keeping my life from falling apart. Somewhere in these outcomes, milemarkers, graduations and self afirmations i categorically became, non susceptible to a certain category of sheer wall affront to a person who is targeted. socially, technically, socially correctovely, verbally, orationally, (speech giving?), attritionally effectively strategically, in one too many ways they cant effect their zero click exploit on one Kyle Varela, as it were, and now im here, right pretty much where id be, only here in my hand is alot of the info needed to disenfranchise those who this computer based evasion of my privacy and much worse was undertaken by, to help potentionally a lot of people, to help the world operate one incriment less innificiently... But i have to delve into realms unknown to turn in the files and doing so will continue to make it self aparent in its non accomplishability approached alone by just me. ...Leading to my posts reason.
Stated: source help, advice, and leads into and about the most suspicious of the many entrys and code snippets within the uploaded files all taken from systems i was using, and i believe is likley to contain evidence provingthY the disfunctionalityt of my devices software and hardware was intentional identifiable and ultimately hopefully reportable and patchable.
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