With the return of HBO’s huge TV hit Westworld to our screens, now might be an inopportune time to talk about artificial intelligence. In that series, set in our own near future, highly intelligent robots in an Old West-styled theme park break free of their programming and start to run amok, t

Outsourcing is often used as a dirty word, but in truth, it is often the best way to get the job done well. In-house expertise often doesn’t stretch to a particular piece of newly developed work – so what to do in that context? You have two choices: build your internal capacity, or … outso

The cost of mobile app design is often perceived by clients to be one of the greatest barriers to adoption of the new technology. Of course, businesses must always undertake rigorous calculations of return on investments and so forth, but the truth is that the cost of mobile app development can

In some iterations of the “watchmaker theory”, which holds that the presence of good design must imply a designer, the creator builds a thing and then walks away from it, allowing it to develop in its own way and disowning further responsibility for it. In theology, that might be an inter

Mobile apps are big. The explosion in their use of recent years has seen business scrambling to keep up: the more your customers want to be able to access the companies important to them online, the more you’re going to need to invest in app development. The problem is that many businesses

Mobile app development trends move ever on. In 2018, mobile apps are part of the digital furniture – most of us now use at least one regularly, and many use a large number on a daily basis. In this environment, making your app novel and different is the only way to stand out from the crowd.

The chatbots are among us, and they are of benefit to your business. Think more Lieutenant Commander Data than the Terminator, C-3P0 rather than an evil Decepticon. In fact, think more of that window that sometimes pops up on your competitor's website, asking if you need any help. That's a chatb

Wearble app development is the new frontier – and it has all the teething troubles of any sort of fresh challenge. Wearable tech is a great example of how app development is the fastest-moving area of digital design. Only a few years ago, smartphone apps were just a nascent technology; now, th

It's a cliché that has the air of Del Boy: you have to speculate to accumulate. Business people are rightly wary of the wisdom of that supposed verity, but of course, like most commonplaces it has the core of truth: businesses invest because they believe it will bring returns. Let's assume you'r

"The future is already here," "The future is already here," William Gibson, the science fiction writer and futurologist, has said. "It's just not very evenly distributed." What does that mean? Gibson is making a point about global inequalities; but he could just as easily have been talking about