The term 'professional website design' gets bandied about all the time. But what makes a design 'professional' – is it the context in which the design is used, or does it actually have something to do with certain design elements? There is no clear answer to this question. There are many corpo...
The value of a web app lies in how useful it is to the user. Mobile app developers have learned the best lessons in development and design from the experience of web developers. That is one of the reasons we do not see too many badly designed apps for mobile. For developers working on a web applicat...
There's more than one way to skin the cat. Enterprises can create mobile applications using native development tools, or they can create multi-platform apps using HTML5 and frameworks based on HTML5. Currently, native apps easily outnumber HTML5 or hybrid apps. When it comes to performance, native a...
A report by an ITU (International Telecoms Union), an UN agency, predicts that we will have more mobile subscriptions than people by 2014, if the current rate of mobile growth continues. It also suggests that the rate of mobile growth will slow down by the end of the year. But at some time in early ...
Most people who work in the design sector have a creative spirit. But designing websites for years can suck away the creativity and make the whole process repetitive. At some point of time or other, most of us reach a point in our career where we have enough skills to keep on churning out mediocre d...
The smartphone and tablet industry is growing and changing at an alarming rate. The ideas that were current a few weeks ago may be out of date today. While the basics of mobile applications have mostly remained the same, newer ideas have changed quite a few preconceptions. At PLAVEB, we have been wr...
According to a new report by Forrester Research the US Online Retail Sales will reach $370 billion by 2017. Online retail will drive employment for over 400,000 individuals of which more than half are salaried employees, with long-term career growth. Similarly, in Europe online retail sales will rea...
Logo designing has been the domain of web and graphics designers for decades. The task of creating a visual symbol that can represent a business needs two skills: ability to understand the soul of the business and the ability to transform that understanding into a powerful and memorable logo. Howeve...
As a software developer, you need to run fast just to stand still at the same place in your career. Every year, newer trends and technologies push away old ones. The turbulent economy ebbs and flows, suddenly increasing and decreasing the employment opportunities for software developers. It is possi...
“Mobile to overtake fixed Internet access by 2015” was the big headline from the widely shared infographic at the end of last year.
According to a report by Flurry time spent with mobile apps starting to challenge television: consumers are spending 127 minutes per day in mobile applic...