By Milenna Miller Fast, cheap, good… pick any two. This concept is generally presented as a Venn diagram of overlapping circles where any two categories can be combined, but never all three. If you want fast and cheap, you can’t have good.  If you want good and cheap, you can’t have fast. It’s also referred […]

By Alisa Moon Early digital computers weren’t very useful. Sure, they were far more powerful than the punch card tabulating machines that they replaced, but they were devilishly hard to program. Instructions needed to be written in assembly code, which was time consuming and difficult. That system began to change when John Backus developed FORTRAN in the early 1950s, which replaced assembly […]

By Alex Mardikian Food service operators are shifting to digital signage solutions. Static menu boards are becoming a thing of the past. These state-of-the-art digital displays offer many advantages – great aesthetics, easy reading, easy content management, and connectivity with the web. The ability to easily update menus is a great cost-saver and motivator for […]

By Gulaiym Agbal If you wish to truly reach out as diverse and targeted an audience at the same time, you need to have the tools to achieve this. You can communicate with a wide audience via your website, and you can narrow down the targeted audience by choosing the content wisely. But in order […]

By Alex Mardikian Thermal management for digital signage solutions is essential if you wish for a solution that will last long and perform optimally. Factors that influence the heat generated during the working of a digital signage screen include the type of electronics used, the temperature at which the system operates, location, exposure to sunlight, […]

By Patrick Hall Through embracing digital technologies, airports have been actively exploring the tools to further shape the delivery of their overall customer experience. With customer experience remaining the primary focus, airports are capitalizing on the opportunities to provide efficient messaging, real time information, personalised services and self-service. Airports are keen to discover what’s next, as […]

By David Devils Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves Why do we build decentralized technologies? How do we predict what will be successful, what will get shutdown, and what will end up as a science experiment that no one uses in practice? As I’ve written before, blockchain isn’t the first decentralization craze and we can learn a lot […]

By Alisa Moon Ways to evoke emotion through microinteractions. Experience design beyond the interface Let’s rewind back to evolutionary biology — humans developed systems through evolution that determine when something in the environment is not “right” to protect against predators. In order to evaluate experiences, the subconscious processes an environment to create a baseline model of expectation, […]

By Laura Desmond How major Bitcoin narratives changed over time Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Perhaps the most enduring source of conflict within the Bitcoin community derives from incompatible visions of what Bitcoin is and should become. Businesses building on […]

By Milenna Miller FOMO3D is a blockchain game that currently has $12 million in ETH at stake, with all of it locked up in a very bizarre-looking set of rules. But upon closer inspection, the rules aren’t so strange. In fact, it turns out to resemble a scaled-up version of a classic game in behavioral […]