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Augmented Reality: The time has come

etventure

AR, in general, requires a combination of hardware and software tools to connect the different levels. Personally, I remember the first time I used an AR application in 2009 when I euphorically installed the App AR-Maps on my iPhone 3G. Although this information is virtual, it is perceived to be real by the user. Source: [link].

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. When I left the company three years later, more than 150 teams at that company were using Scrum for developing both infrastructure and product features.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

If there are no design engineers, a system architect and GUI lead may be the best option for software expertise. However, any technical group’s reluctance to give up control over design is usually due to the fact that so far, they’ve been the most competent to do it. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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