Smart contract use cases: commodity trading (tiqpit)

Tiqpit’s idea to move commodity trading to the blockchain is one of our most recent smart contract use cases. As co-founder Mike Ziemkendorf said, tiqpit was born out of the move to Malta: the confrontation with the situation on the small island, paired with the founders’ insider knowledge of how commodity trading works. See how tiqpit aims to […]

Build your own error monitoring tool

In this tutorial, I’ll describe how you can create your own error watcher. The final version of this project can be found on GitHub. I’ll later refer to the code from this repository, so you can check it out. Why use even a simple error monitoring tool? If your application is on the production or […]

7 Tips for Good UI Design

A good UI design increases conversion rates. That’s simple. But how does human-oriented design play into it? The mobile revolution, as well as the web revolution before it, constantly forced us to keep restructuring and reconsidering what simplicity means for human-centered design and practically every experience we create. In the UI user community, we’ve launched […]

3 Common Mobile App Performance Problems and How to Avoid Them

Why is the issue of mobile app performance pushed aside by their creators? Why is the short path most frequently chosen with regard to developing a mobile application? Why does this path lead to enormous costs and, in consequence, hinder the software development process? The topic might seem very extensive. It’s probably difficult to master it […]