For those who know me, I don’t get angry often, but stories like this piss me off immediately. I am contributing to the Product Hunt, from time to time. PH is a good product where you can find newly created products organized by categories. They allow you also to vote for newly added products and…
Bulgaria Web Summit 2017. A 2-day event about technologies and fun.
We are preparing our next release, in April, I thought it could be useful to give you a preview on what’s coming. 2 instead of 1 We will have 2 conference days, instead of just one. On the first day (April 7) we will be focusing on topics such as Privacy, User Experience (#UX), creating…
I’ve launched a Mozilla Donation Campaign for #CyberMonday craziness.
I have started a small campaign today and I am so happy to see it working – 138 engagements so far and a few donations. There is no way to see the donations, but I can see more “I have donated” tweets in the target languages. Please retweet and take action :) Feeling like spending…
How I run Ideation workshop to hear “the voice” of the team.
I missed a step in my previous article on purpose. I was planning to write a separate article about that and here it is. When I was completing my UX training by Chris Nodder I liked a technique called “Ideation” and I have decided to hack it and to use it for my own purposes…
Solving customer pain point through simple prototyping and using my 20/10 rule
Prototyping is part of my work. I don’t trust product owners or analysts that do not prototype ideas and share them with the customer or another stakeholder. I will tell you more now about my strategy and I hope it can be useful for you. I have grown the ability to listen, remember and prototype…
How to get number of twitter followers for any account (including yours) with PHP
I needed a few days ago a way to get my twitter followers’ count for an app and I did a small research on StackOverflow. One of the advices was to use another service for that, because the twitter API doesn’t support that anymore. Yeah, but it does :) Here’s how to get it: Register…
How to engage us, developers to use your API.
There are tens of thousands of API’s available. More to come. Most of the companies though, have troubles engaging developers to use them. So I have decided to share a few thoughts and ideas on how you can do that, based on my experience. Design your API well Nobody likes powerful, but not developer-friendly APIs….
Time management is dead? Really?
My linkedin timeline is being sarcastic today: The first post says: “Time management is dead…” (by Forbes) The second one says: Time management training just started. So who’s right?
How to measure customers’ satisfaction without asking them those boring questions
Let’s imagine you want to understand how happy your customers are with your product. According to the marketers there are several methods to do that, like NPS or Temper, but all of them require interaction with the customer. Let’s be honest, most of the time people don’t want to answer stupid questions like “How do…
Invison, please fix it
I visited today invision blog to learn about how to use some of their features and 3 seconds after I hit “play” on the video tutorial I got this, hovering everything, including the video I am interested in: Please fix it! I understand the reason behind it, but please can you hide it on the…
Startups, go to Slovenia now!
I met with 3 Slovenian guys last week, just after my training session with StartupYard teams, and this become something more interesting that just having a beer with chips in a pub in the middle of Prague’s most awesome district – Smichov. (Yeah, Google and Skype are just around the corner + some of the…
Voice navigation – bringing your app to the next level?
This morning I was surprised by Google Drive. They offered me to use voice for some basic commands, instead of selecting them or using a shortcut (in my case). A few months ago I created an experiment by combining the shiny SoHo Interface with a few good working opensource javascript implementations for voice and gesture…
The saddest job of the IT world is … being a growth hacker
I held my second growth hacking workshop for StartupYard a few days ago and I did a small research – I was looking for a joke to use as an icebreaker at the start of the workshop. So I was trying to find out some funny growth hacking resources using Google, but then I realized,…
Voice-controlled UI plus a TTS engine.
A few days ago I’ve attended the launch of SohoXI – Hook and Loop’s latest product that aims to change the look and feel of the Enterprise applications forever. I am close to believing that and not only because I work for the same company as they do. They have delivered extremely revolutionary UI in…
Get shares from startups just for helping them grow.
A note: This is not an advertisement. As a startup mentor and enthusiast I have spent a lot of time helping startups grow or learn from my mistakes. I’ve consulted more than 20 startups and helped more than 60 to acquire more users or improve their products in order to retain users and keep growing….