Merixstudio blog posts

Company insights, digital product design and development expert knowledge sharing

February 6, 2024

How to build a sales-accelerating platform for residential and commercial PV installers?

They say that a salesperson without enthusiasm is just another clerk. While making deals is a craft in its own right, there’s more to it than meets the eye. The 'how' of the sales process matters tremendously. And just like enthusiasm powers the efforts, good tools make for a smoother ride. If you’re in a solar photovoltaic (PV) niche, performant software should be as important for you as talented salespeople. So, let’s look at how to build a sales-accelerating platform for residential and commercial PV installers.

May 9, 2025

How to keep a mobile app stable as it grows?

When your users rate your mobile app low on the stability scale, it’s not only the question of technical issues that is brought to the fore. Low app ratings affect your business acutely, making the extent to which your users can rely on the product at hand a crucial issue for tech executives and their developer teams. How to develop technically stable mobile apps that are worthy of user appreciation and support your ROI at the same time? Let’s find out!

March 19, 2025

How to secure Flutter apps? Key insights

Feeling that you and your developer teams could do a better job of securing your platforms from attacks? You’ve come to the right place! Explore our security tips for Flutter apps as well as native Android and iOS apps.

2019-06-19

Quality Assurance in different types of mobile applications

The world of mobile applications is not so coherent. We can divide apps in terms of usage – financial apps, social media apps, e-commerce, games, and so on. The other way is to look closer at the technology and the process of mobile app development. In this case, we can discern three types of applications – web (or mobile-optimized), native, and hybrid apps. The differences between them determine mobile testing strategy, scope, and techniques Quality Assurance specialists can use when testing applications. In this article, we will show you how to define key issues of this complex process in terms of the type of the tested app.

2019-06-18

The Creative Side of Technology #35 - design, development & startup digest

Is Product Design only about the fancy look, impressive features or user-friendly interface? How to merge user needs with business goals? To introduce you our approach of Product Design we created a comprehensive E-book “You’re not your user. How to design successful digital products?” This issue is on the top in our Biweekly Digest #35. But there is also a space to show you how great and inspiring the last two weeks were.

2019-06-17

A few thoughts on the importance of documentation in IT security

RFCs are boring. And do not even try to convince me it’s different. But there’s no doubt they are important especially when open source meets IT security. RFCs do serve a certain purpose, which is reaching compliance between parties who write their services separately, do not know each other, speak different languages, work (or even live) at different times. It’s thanks to RFC 2616 defining Hypertext Transfer Protocol that Internet Explorer can work seamlessly with Nginx and Apache…