To be a good leader, you need to have quick wit. But to be a great leader capable of motivating individuals to work toward a common goal, you need a whole lot more than smarts — you need emotionalintelligence.Great leaders are able to adeptly maintain relationships, read people’s body language, pick up on social cues […]
SSL/TLS is a protocol that exists to ensure there exists an avenue for secure communication over the Internet. Through the use of cryptography and certificate validation, SSL certificates make man-in-the-middle attacks (where a third party would be able monitor your internet traffic) difficult, so the transmission of things like credit card numbers and user account passwords […]
While most usability testing methods described in The Guide to Usability Testingapply to Web and mobile, we want to describe some of the nuances specific to each medium. Actually, most usability testing methods can be run any product from cloud payment systems to next-generation gaming consoles. In this piece, we want to narrow our focus […]
Unless your product is eyebrow-raisingly basic, there’s a very, very good chance that a new user won’t get to experience all the value you have to offer in their very first sitting. And since user onboarding isn’t merely the process of introducing your new signups to your product’s features, but instead the process of driving […]
At Telegram, we try to reinvent the ordinary tools. The concept of stickers is not an exception. We’ve always felt that stickers in messaging apps sucked, because they typically provided a lim ited and paid experience in a walled-garden environment. Today’s update to Telegram for Android, iOS and Desktops introduces a new kind of stickers […]
Google’s Project Zero tracks vulnerabilities in software systems and reports them to vendors “in as close to real-time as possible” — a noble cause, no? But what happens if said vendor then fails to push a fix within the 90-day window? Microsoft just found out: Google will go ahead and publish the bug anyway, complete […]
Lizard Squad has been in the headlines a lot lately, whether it’s been taking down Playstation Network, Xbox Live service, or allegedly aiding the Guardians of Peace’s hack of Sony. With all of the buzz surrounding the rebels without a cause, the group is now looking to cash in on its fame by selling its […]
The contents of Apple’s 2015 Japanese “Lucky Bag” sales have been revealed. The bags went on sale at 8 AM local time this morning, and the entire collection of deals was quickly revealed by those who had taken advantage of the limited-time offer. The bags will cost shoppers around ¥38,000 (or about $323). There are […]