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  • Optimal thumb-zone mapping for both left- and right-handed users. The 'combined' zone indicates the ideal placement areas for maximum usability across a wide range of users.

    Designing for the Thumb: Creating User-Centric Mobile App Experiences

    Discover how Bluehouse Group can help you enhance your mobile app's usability and user experience through effective techniques such as full-screen menus for thumb-friendly interfaces

  • The image consists of three screenshots from the mobile app QR Pop. At the bottom of each screenshot, there is a navigation bar displaying icons for the Builder, Scanner, Archive, and settings. The left-most screenshot showcases various QR code options, including Links, Wifi Networks, Calendar Events, Contact Cards, Emails, Phone Numbers, Text Messages, Whatsapp, Facetime, and more. Each QR code type is represented by an orange-colored symbol. The middle screenshot displays a basic black QR code that links to Bluehouse.Group. The interface includes a tab for viewing the QR code and another tab for designing it. The right-most screenshot demonstrates the QR code design feature. In this particular instance, the app allows users to customize the pixel color of the QR code.

    Mobile App Spotlight: QR Pop

    Discover QR Pop, a free QR code generator app developed by Shawn Davis and recommended by Bluehouse Group. QR Pop has a sleek interface, customization options, and a hassle-free experience

  • Three mobile phones are placed on a light purple background, displaying different screens from the Atlas Obscura app. In the left screenshot, the path with trees looks like a magical spot, and the "Place of the day" banner draws your attention to it. The location name "Groene Bedstee" is written in bold, and below it, the description gives more details about the beech hedges that form a tunnel, which change with each season. Moving to the middle screenshot, the two photos show different unique locations. The Leo Tolstoy monument in New Delhi, India is a commemoration of the Russian writer's little-known cultural influence on India. The second location, Useldange Castle (Chateua d'Useldange), is a 12th-century castle featuring a sensory path where partially sighted visitors can experience the castle's surroundings. In the right screenshot, the yellow location symbols on the map represent unique destinations marked in the Atlas Obscura database. Clicking on any of them provides more information about the location at the bottom of the screen. For instance, clicking on "Miniature Castles of South Hero" reveals that it's a gardener's labor of love, spread throughout a small Vermont town.

    Mobile App Spotlight: Atlas Obscura

    Bluehouse Group loves discovering and sharing unique mobile apps that we find impressive. The Atlas Obscura app is one such app that we're excited to showcase to our community.

  • The image contains three screenshots of the feeeed mobile app, all of the screenshots are in front of a green background and bottom navigation items labeled "Home," "Subscribe," and "All." In the left-most screenshot, an article titled "Trembling Hearts: Anime maestro Makoto Shinkai on chairs, cats, and car rides" from the "Letterbox Journal" is visible, along with another partially obscured article from the same publication. The middle screenshot displays the search screen, where users can add different types of feeds and publications, such as blogs, YouTube channels, health apps, newsletters, and more. The last screenshot, on the right side, shows the homefeed with the weather displayed at the top of the screen, along with an article titled "Ode to Harlem: A.V. Rockwell on the humanity of Black women in her debut feature A Thousand and One" from the "Letterboxd Journal."

    Mobile App Spotlight: feeeed

    Bluehouse Group reviews the mobile app feeeed, discussing its user interface, news feed options, custom reminder feature, privacy protections, and built-in reader mode.

  • Three screenshots of a mobile productivity app called Blyss, presented against a light blue background. The top of each screenshot displays the month "April 2023", while the bottom features a navigation bar with icons for calendar, timeline, reports, and settings. The left screenshot showcases the app's activity tracking feature, displaying the user's activities for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (April 24th-26th, 2023) using emojis such as a sleeper for sleep quality and a croissant for breakfast. In the middle screenshot, the user is viewing a pie chart of their mood data for the past three days, with the colors green, grey, and blue representing happy, neutral, and ecstatic moods respectively. This feature provides monthly and annual data reports. The right screenshot displays the app's calendar view, which allows users to track their general mood for each day and view all logged activities.

    Mobile App Spotlight: Blyss

    Bluehouse Group provides a brief review of their positive experience using the sleek and intuitive productivity app Blyss for tracking their daily activities.

  • Designing User-Friendly Interfaces: The Importance of Hick’s Law

    Bluehouse Group provides insights into how Hick’s Law can be applied to the design and development of websites and mobile apps to enhance user experience and engagement.

  • Are Newsletter Popups Worth It?

    Bluehouse Group explores the effectiveness of newsletter popups as a marketing tactic and suggests alternative, less intrusive ways to increase newsletter subscriptions

  • The Importance of Preserving Our Digital Legacy

    Bluehouse Group discusses the legal dispute between the Internet Archive and Hachette Publishing Group and how web developers use the Archive’s Wayback Machine for studying the evolution of web design

  • Tips for Developers: Code Reviews

    Bluehouse Group highlights the importance of code reviews for improving code quality, consistency, knowledge sharing, and identifying potential security issues.

  • Tips for Developers: Code Hygiene

    Bluehouse Group stresses the significance of utilizing best practices and tools like GitHub Copilot to maintain clean code and documentation in software development.

  • A white event flier with blue shapes and dark blue shapes placed throughout the design. There is an image of a white man wearing a red polo shirt and glasses. Underneath his photo, his name “Everett McKay” is written in large white text. Above his name, in the smaller text, it says “Speaker” and underneath his name, in the same small text it says “UX Designer” To the left of Everett’s Image are the event details. In the top left corner in the white text, it says “19th of April, 2023 at 6:00” Under that is the name of the presentation Everett will be giving in the large blue text “UI is Not UX — For Real” Below the title, it says “RSVP” in smaller white text and below that it says “Hosted by Bluehouse Group” in very small white text.

    Everett McKay UI is not UX – For Real

    Everett McKay - A talented Vermont-based UX Designer will be giving a presentation called UI is Not UX – For Real at Bluehouse Group, learn more details on Bluehouse.Group

  • Temani Afif: The Mind Behind the Ultimate CSS Collection

    Meet Temani Afif, a frontend developer from Tunisia who is extremely talented with CSS. He is also the mastermind behind CSS Challenges and CSS Generators.