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.

2019-10-18

Introduction to Storybook with React (Update)

If only there was a tool that could simultaneously speed up the developer’s work and significantly improve communication with UI designers or QA specialists from the very first stages of the software development process... But wait a minute, such a tool already exists and it’s called Storybook! In this article, we’ll not only point out its most important benefits, but also guide you through its installation, and help you get started with Storybook using React. We’ll also explain why in some cases, it’s good to think twice before you apply Storybook to all parts of your project.

2019-10-16

Heuristic evaluation - how to improve UI design with Nielsen’s heuristics?

After long months of building your app, you think that you did absolutely everything that was needed and you are one hundred percent ready to finally unleash it upon the world? Slow down. No to so fast. We would like to remind you that part of the process of creating a product is making sure it fully satisfies your users. Thankfully, there are methods like heuristic evaluation providing a taut set of rules to find the usability problems in a UI design. Today I will take a closer look at one of the most popular of them - Nielsen’s heuristics.

2019-10-15

IT outsourcing: How to find a reliable software development partner?

Two out of three companies have outsourced software development at least once and only about 18% of them wasn’t satisfied with the results (according to the State of Software Development in 2019 report). Still, IT outsourcing involves some risks and with a thousands of potential vendors to consider in research the process of choosing a right one is time-consuming and challenging. Here we prepared a list of issues to take into account which will help you to find a reliable software development partner.