Month: December 2015

How to Build API in 10 Minutes with Amazon

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How to build an API in 10 minutes

As web developer or people who often deal with programming, building an API will surely take your time. Moreover, if you would like to connect your software to application programming interface, maybe you need a brilliantly designed, coder-friendly interface. Besides, if you need something to do with maintaining all the servers a sturdy API capable of handling millions of requests, we understand as sometimes servers are annoying, even for cloud services.

You choose them, provision them, configure them, deploy them, monitor them, meter them. You also the one who determine when to add or remove them but still you need to pay what you used and you didn’t. The explosion of software as a service in recent years has paved the way for the concept of “servers” to be someone else’s problem. But there are several requirements that should be fulfilled when someone wants to build an API in a server. Many of programmers find that you are going to fight with servers before to do an API.

If you dislike the situation and want to find a better way, you can try another technique which is quite simple and fast.

Amazon

For those who hate the idea of handling their own hardware can have a new tool to help them, for about one year ago, Amazon web Services has been released. The good news about this app is that it is not only cheap to stand up an API with API Gateway but it is also quick work, since it only takes ten minutes if you’re copy-pasting, and half an hour if you’re a good typist.

The work can be done into three steps:

  1. Write a request handler
  2. Install it as a Lambda
  3. Create an API in API Gateway, and connect the Lambda to a resource and method.

You can apply the above techniques and hopefully, it will save your time more than before.

3 Ways to Avoid App Fatigue With Enterprise Apps

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enterprise app

For mobile and web developer, there are some other things that you should know and avoid in order to create a good mobile app, especially for enterprise app which is a bit different from consumer app since enterprise app is a business application, obviously. As most people use the term, it is a big business application. In today’s corporate environment, enterprise applications are complex, scalable, distributed, component-based, and mission-critical while Consumer device is an industry term for Internet-capable mobile computers that are marketed to individuals, not businesses. For example, the iPhone, iPad, Droid smartphone, Wii and Xbox are all considered to be consumer devices. Therefore, after knowing the difference about them, we will continue to discuss about some of other important things that you should consider before creating a mobile app, especially for enterprise app.

Don’t lose sight of your purpose

By focusing on an overarching purpose, you deliver mobility that is more useful and cohesive rather than trying to build an app that focus on accessing work documents. For the example, you can start with just trying to make sales more efficient with those documents.

One good app is better than hundreds

Today, research reveals that the amounts of people who spend their tie on mobile devices increament, this is likely the same with the number of apps people use on average. But, the fact is that no one wants their phones covered in enterprise apps.

Many consumers easily switch from one app to another app, but when someone downloads an enterprise app, they expect it to be able to save time and achieve business goals.

Develop mobile for the user, not the systems owner

Enterprise app and consumer apps is slightly different, as the buyer of an enterprise app is often not the same person as the user. Therefore, many projects of mobile project end up as a system owner, for example (SAP) while rarely exist to help users done with their work.  This might help secure a purchase in the short term. But if users aren’t satisfied with a product, they won’t hesitate to look elsewhere for an alternative.

3 Myths About Designing for Women

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5 Myths about designing for women2

91% of women says that many advertisers haven’t comprehended they wants. This is mostly because many marketers are still neglecting these facts, and create campaigns which mainly focus for universal gender. So, if you want to attract more female buyers, you need to create a good design that can influence their decisions, but before having knowledge about design for women, you may need to know some myths about them.

Myth 1: Women need their own gender-targeted websites.

Some companies may think that women need their own gender-targeted websites, one of them is Dell. Several years ago, Dell computers launched its girl version, named Della, a website pitching their new lightweight notebook computers. This site is dedicated to women, so Dell makes the packed with imagery of women and their laptops doing many of popular “female activities”, such as meditating in field, drinking coffee, and browsing the ‘net with their girlfriends.  However, the respond is not as good as they are expected, so dell quickly changed some of the site’s languages to be less patronizing.

At some points, creating a product for a specific gender may not be a good idea as it will become a mistake of generalizing each segment, turning to commonly-held stereotypes.

If you, as web designers want to create a site that will be appreciated by women, you can learn from Apple, as it creates apple female friendly. It translates into the use of white space and fewer dividing elements or boxes if you want to design a site that appeals to woman.

Myth 2: Sites for women should be Pink

Opposite from the example above, Apple and Dell , which the products are generally aimed for every gender, if you create a product which is aimed only for a certain gender you can use a color that can be best represented their gender, such as Victoria Secret website that uses pink as part of their branding. VS website tastefully uses pink as an accent color rather than an all-over palette.

But this doesn’t mean that you should overwhelm the sites with pastel and pink until it looks like a Barbie theme, therefore you can also look for other design faux pas include:

  • Scalloped borders
  • Curly Victorian ornaments
  • Script fonts
  • Rounded corners on everything

Myth 3: Women need a lot of copy to convince them to purchase

Overwhelming woman with a lot of technical information is lousy. To attract woman in buying a product you need to replace your article into a more lifestyle copy. Therefore, a good copy should be concise, but persuasive. In fact, for women, it will be better for you to create female-friendly copy that considers the voice in which you are writing. Women will tend to love a copy that is more friendly and conversational than men.