Currently, good UX design focuses on obvious navigation, uncluttered content and knowledge of your audience. But as technology advances, so does UX and UI. Below, 10 technology experts from Forbes Technology Council offer their insights on how these current best practices will change in the next few years, and what companies can do to prepare for the shift. Posted: 08/18/16 [ Read More... ]
[ The ‘Big Four’ to Establish Their Own Blockchain Consortium ]
The four major accounting firms in the world are set to meet with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to discuss the establishment of a distributed ledger consortium. Posted: 08/15/16 [ Read More... ]
[ The Two Minutes It Takes To Read This Will Improve Your Writing Forever ]
You’re busy, so I’ll keep this quick.
Following are the simplest tips I can give you to easily — and forever — improve the quality of your writing.
Delete the word “that.”
At least 90% of the times you use the word “that” can be removed from your writing and it will instantly make your sentence stronger.
Example: “You believe that I’m lying, but I’m not.” becomes “You believe I’m lying, but I’m not.”
Delete the words “I think.”
It adds nothing.... Posted: 08/11/16 [ Read More... ]
[ IoT Strategies Going Vertical ]
A nearly existential search for meaning and direction is hitting the tech industry and its major players in a way that they’ve never truly experienced before. Why? It’s a combination of factors including market maturity, flattened growth in key categories, and the lack of a clear picture about where things are headed. Posted: 08/08/16 [ Read More... ]
[ Implications of Brexit for FinTech Startups ]
The Brexit Isn’t Stopping FinTech Investment and Sector Growth
With over 12,000 companies getting involved, the FinTech industry is one the rising industries across the globe. According to PwC, the estimated global investment will surpass $150 billion USD in the fintech sector in the next 3-5 years. The FinTech industry works to integrate the financial world with the technological world to modernized the way... Posted: 08/05/16 [ Read More... ]
[ Finextra paper explores blockchain as an enabler of operational resilience ]
Distributed ledger technology could help with damage limitation in the event of service disruptions, as the paper ‘How to get a head on operational resilience’ discusses.
In this period of disruption, with new regulation, technology, customer requirements and the occasional curveball like Brexit, operational resilience is getting a significant workout. Posted: 08/03/16 [ Read More... ]
[ FinTech: Digital Disruption in Finance ]
Finances Industry is Upping Digital Staffing as the FinTech Revolution Begins
Financial Technology, also known as FinTech, is changing the way many do finance. The financial services industry is continuing to evolve and adapt as technology advances. Innovation in the financial industry has introduced peer to peer financial platforms, mobile wallets, payment processing, and basically, anything that makes transitions quicker and... Posted: 07/13/16 [ Read More... ]
[ Facebook is creating an open-source cellular system ]
The technology is designed to drive down the price of communications infrastructure
Facebook has long been working to reduce the number of people who don’t have access to the internet, and have announced the creation of a new platform called OpenCellular.
The OpenCellular is an open source, "wireless access platform" designed to drive down the cost of setting up cellular networks in places where it has been traditionally difficult... Posted: 07/06/16 [ Read More... ]
[ Product Management and UX Design Guided by Psychology ]
7 Concepts of Psychology Which Inform Good UX Design
Understanding UX design is part science and part psychology. The approach to UX design is broad and usually depends on the education or job history of the person involved in it. Someone in product management will approach UX design differently than a interaction designer, and so forth. But no matter how diverse someone’s background is,... Posted: [ Read More... ]
[ Brexit breeds opportunities for UK fintech ]
Far from being an economic disaster, a British exit from Europe could be the best thing that's ever happened to UK fintech, says Michael Jackson, partner at Mangrove Capital and former COO at Skype. Great entrepreneurs feed off of disruption - whether geopolitical or technological.
As a venture capital investor, I back entrepreneurs who take advantage of change to create transformational businesses. So I was struck... Posted: [ Read More... ]