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Design’s New Frontier: The IRL Era

Tom Tunguz

The payments systems are in place, the integrations with airlines and taxis and inventory systems and physical things like locks exist. When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. IRL apps require radical simplicity in their design. Otherwise, they simply won’t be used. In Web 2.0,

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“I Was Seduced By a Build Scenario”: 11 Ways to Avoid This Exec’s Greatest Tech Failure

BetterCloud

According to IDC research , software purchases will surpass app development in a few years. While IT services such as applications development and deployment and project-oriented services will be the largest category of spending in 2017 ($275 billion), software purchases will experience strong growth (7.9%