What is a Discovery Phase?

Nowadays it’s unreasonable to start a software development project without preliminary comprehensive analysis. The discovery phase should become an initial stage of any project you deal with. It’s an information-gathering procedure, which brings you an in-depth comprehension of the industry, the client’s business, and the target audience. It’s important to gain a profound understanding of the stakeholders’ anticipations of the product and the end-users’ expectations as to it. The main aim of the preliminary analysis is providing a quotation to the customer. For the purpose, you have to gather the maximum possible details about the client’s needs and put it in a separate document.

Generation Z seems to have already revolutionized much in the modern flow of life and the digital world in particular. Almost half of the active consumers belong to this age group nowadays and they are characterized as «view now, buy now customers».

Every SPA development project is unique in its own way. The application can have a unique design, a complicated business logic, a very specific target audience. Still, in spite of the uniqueness, a great part of the development process can be generalized and its common principles can be defined for more effective work. Further on we are going to speak about the Single Page App development principles which make it more advanced and at the same time quicker.

The industry of mobility demonstrates now multiple up-and-coming startups and technologies emerging. Lots of them are related to the new Mobility as a Service concept. We have already analyzed the trend in one of our previous articles and revealed the huge potential this technology opens. This article is to provide our audience with the live examples of the startups, which top the industry today.

The question of web development cost is always actual and rather a complicated one, since the accurate estimation of any project is quite tricky. The features needed for implementation and the scope of work should be taken into consideration.

Mobility as a service is a new ground-breaking concept being shaped by the 3 main factors: alternative power transport, electric vehicles, and on-demand services. This social, techno and economic shift has put mobility at our fingertips disrupting new sectors and spheres.

As a smart website owner, you are sure to know that page and site speed is a critical ranking factor and an aspect to consider for effective SEO processes. According to LoadStorm, the proper page load speed increases visitor engagement — you have just 5 seconds to engage a user, almost 75% will abandon after 5 seconds waiting and more than 45% will never return. Every second delay in page load cuts user satisfaction by 16%, page views by 11% and conversion rates by 7%.

End of June Stfalcon arranged a number of Meet Ups in Kiev and one of them was devoted to progressive web apps development.

Progressive Web Apps is the technology and the term, which came to exist in 2015, however, lots of people, even experts still have rather a vague notion of it. That’s why we thought it would be interesting to the professionals of the sphere as well as to our clients and audience. We have rather an interesting discussion and event on the whole, with lots of findings, insights and inspiration in the end.

Lots of people want to know the cost of mobile app development. Actually, this question is quite difficult, because the accurate cost of any project is rather a tricky thing, it depends on the scope of work and the features, the product should have. However, to make our potential clients’ life easier we developed an online calculator of app development cost.

Сonsumers’ attitudes and behavior have definitely shifted in recent years. With the rise and advance of technology, people got the opportunity to shop and order services online and mostly want to be satisfied instantaneously. That’s why on-demand startups are so popular nowadays and a successful on-demand service app might become your jackpot ticket.