Lessons Learned: Developing For Tizen TV

The New Operating System With so many smart TV platforms having poor navigation and complicated UI, many users turn to Apple and Roku for a more user-friendly experience. Samsung’s Tizen is a new, flexible operating system developed by a community of developers, under an open source governance. How is this operating system different from all […]

Strategy, Discovery & Prototyping: How FoCus Has Helped Our Clients

  We’ve written in length about the importance of product discovery and definition and the benefits of mobile app prototyping. We do these phases with all of our clients as part of our end-to-end development process, but we also offer a service called Focus that specifically involves mobile app strategy, product definition, and interactive app […]

How We Tackle Quality Assurance at Clearbridge

  In the mobile application market, there are millions of apps for users to download on their devices. Last June, Apple announced that its App Store hit a shocking 130 billion downloads. Mobile apps are used in millions of users’ daily lives, but what makes forerunning apps dominate the app market? The difference in quality […]

How to Gain & Maintain Project Velocity

  One of the major risks in software development is time. For a myriad of reasons, from aggressive (sometimes unrealistic) estimations to a fundamental misunderstanding of project scope versus team capacity, projects become delayed and deadlines are missed.   In agile development, the concept of velocity was created in order to help reduce time risk […]

Why Code Reviews Are Crucial For Product Quality

  Code reviews are a system of peer reviews that involve developers looking over code that they didn’t write and providing feedback. At Clearbridge, code reviews are included in our cross-developer verification process that is part of every project we work on. This post is going to describe why we have code reviews ingrained in […]