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.

September 4, 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.

2019-05-22

7 ways web development industry changed since it's beginnings

Web development industry is rather peculiar. One day you can be a sought-after programmer and then you will become old news. Just take a look at Flash - it truly ruled the Internet before it became the butt of a joke. If you don't want to share the fate of Flash you need to constantly work on your skills and be aware of changes in the IT world that you might need to learn and incorporate into your portfolio.

2019-05-22

Laravel vs Symfony - Clash of the Frameworks

Laravel and Symfony are definitely two top PHP frameworks. But which one is better? To find out the answer, I will show you what their strengths and weaknesses are, as well as talk about the reason why I like one of them better than the other.

2019-05-22

5 stages of group development in Scrum

For the western world, individuality is the most important value - we look at almost everything from the perspective of one person. However, creating the high-quality products is based on the team effort; therefore you will achieve the best possible results only by being part of a group. Nowadays, the world is much too complex to succeed alone, so you'll need people to cooperate with. When you are in a team you simultaneously have a broader knowledge, since you gather various members with different talents. Your weakness can be someone's strength. To achieve all of that you’ll need to establish a right environment and culture. In Merixstudio we believe Scrum helps with that.