Constant Variables

Tim chats with Clare Stead, creator of the Oliiki app for parents! They talk about a plane ride to Zambia that altered the course of Clare’s life, the educational study that led Clare to creating Oliiki, how important marketing is to the success of an app, impostor syndrome and how to overcome it, and why you need to draw your app out on paper before you begin programming it.

Automating your business processes can save you a ton of time and money in the long run. Rhamy Alejeal joins us on this episode to discuss how you can get started with automation in your company (specifically around your HR process).

User privacy can be a key differentiator between you and your competition. Adam Stone of Secure Digital Solutions joins us on the show to talk about several concepts around privacy, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Privacy by Design, risk management around third party dependencies, and how you can take steps in your process to ensure your user’s private information is secure.

How does one of the largest companies in the world get a mobile app built? Tim chats with Savon Sampson, former senior marketing director for McKesson, to find out how! They discuss her process for finding a development team, how they took the app from an idea to a real product, and what she might do differently if she were tasked with building an app today.

Tim talks about all things accessibility with Jonathan Hassell of Hassell Inclusion. They discuss the importance of inclusive design, how to shift your organization’s mindset to think about accessibility in everything you do, and what you can do to make your app usable by the 20% of the world with a disability.

Tim chats with Dr. Courtney Hill and Adam Choe of Yonder, an app for helping young children prepare to visit the dentist. They discuss the history of Yonder, how important it is to find the right fit for a development team, the brutally honest feedback that comes from having a target audience of 3-5 year olds, the joys of bootstrapping a business, and some tips for working together as a team.

How can you, as a budding app owner, decide which app development team to hire? Tim provides a list of questions you can use to interview potential developers, as well as what answers you should be looking for.

Predicting what will change in technology in the coming year is always a fruitless experiment... but let’s do it anyway! Tim and Rob chat about 9 technology trends and where they see the industry moving in the new year.

A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a type of app that you can ship to your customers with enough features to get the point across and collect their feedback for future improvements. Tim and Jenny take a look at popular apps and chat about what they would be like in their MVP form, along with the pros and cons to releasing an MVP.

Security is a never ending game of cat and mouse, and it is important to do the fundamentals correctly to reduce your chances of a breach. Tim chats about all things related to securing your mobile app system.