How to Put ChatGPT to Work for Your Business
As businesses continue to look for ways to increase efficiency and improve customer experience, many are turning to advanced technologies like natural language processing (NLP)…
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How to Put ChatGPT to Work for Your Business
As businesses continue to look for ways to increase efficiency and improve customer experience, many are turning to advanced technologies like natural language processing (NLP)…
7 top priorities for CIOs in 2023
We’re officially rocketing into the work year of 2023, and we have a whole new set of challenges to deal with as CIOs. As is…
Letter from WordPress’ Executive Director, 2022
WordPress reaffirms commitment to open source in 2022 letter, highlighting “Four Freedoms of Open Source” that provide protections for creators and ethical framework for business….
Why Slack Sucks: The benefits of async communication in software development
When it comes to software development, Slack is not the holy grail of communication. In fact, it can actually hinder productivity and lead to miscommunication….
The Magic of a Global .gitignore
Say Goodbye to Cluttered Repositories with a Global .gitignore As developers, we all know the importance of keeping our code repositories clean and organized. One…
One Simple Reason Why the Majority of Software Projects Fail
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, software development projects are becoming increasingly important for companies looking to stay competitive. However, it’s no secret that a majority…
The Future of Marketing Automation: Predictions and Trends for the Next 5 Years
Marketing automation is evolving quickly and the next 5 years are sure to bring even more advances. In this article, we will explore these and…
What is a headless CMS and how does it work?
A headless CMS is a content management system that provides a way to manage and store content, but does not have a built-in way to…
Statically generated marketing sites: How they work
What is a static site? A statically generated site is a type of website that is built using a static site generator. A static site…
Speeding up development of your MVP: Why you should use a framework like Laravel + Vue.JS
A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product that has the minimum set of features required to be viable. It is typically…
Different front-end web application frameworks and why we like Vue.js
When it comes to building for the web, front-end frameworks have become a go-to for many developers. These frameworks help increase development speed and make…
Targeting SMBs as a growth strategy for software companies
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) represent a significant growth opportunity for the high tech industry. As companies in this sector look to expand and capture…
Business Transformation as a Service
Business transformation as a service (BTaaS) is a service offering that helps companies transform their business operations and processes through the use of technology and…
Product Discovery Process: Everything Product Managers Need to Know
As a product manager at an enterprise company, one of your most important responsibilities is to ensure that your team is working on the right…
How to choose a Content Management System (CMS)
Choosing a content management system (CMS) can be a daunting task, as there are many different options available, each with its own set of features…
What is Brooke's Law and how to avoid delays in development projects
Brooks’s Law is a famous principle in software development that states: “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. This law was proposed…
4 Factors to consider when choosing the tech stack for your next project
When it comes to building a new web or software project, one of the most important decisions you will have to make is choosing the…
Could these be the hottest trends in 2023 for graphic design and digital experiences?
The world of web and digital design is constantly evolving, and 2023 is shaping up to be a year full of exciting trends and innovations….
Optimizing your B2B Sales funnel with AI, Account Based Marketing and Data to increase effectiveness and cost efficiency
In the world of B2B sales, it is crucial to have a clear understanding of the journey that potential customers go through as they move…
Graphic design vs UX/UI design: What is the difference? Bonus: How to work well with developers.
Graphic designers and UX/UI designers both work on creating visual designs for websites and other digital products, but they have different areas of focus and…
Can you explain the difference between HTML/CSS and javascript developers?
When you are building websites, one of the most common misconceptions is that all front-end developers are the same. In our last post, we explained…
What are the different types of software engineers for the web?
Whether you are a head of marketing with no technical background, a CTO, or Engineering manager, it helps to have context as to the types…
Mayven Studios Acquired by Saltwater Capital
Saltwater recently announced the acquisition of Mayven Studios, a leading engineering and design agency, started in San Francisco, now with software engineers around the world….
How to Build a Software Specification Document
We’re entering a time when most professional’s day-to-day work touches some aspect of code. At Mayven we are seeing more and more teams turn to…
Site Security for eCommerce in 10 steps
How to boost your e-commerce site security with these 10 steps. As an owner of an e-commerce store, you have to juggle hundreds of priorities…
RGB to HEX Color Converter
Use this easy calculator from purecalculators.com to convert RGB to HEX for use in CSS and other web development!
The Ultimate Developerʹs Guide to Converting PSD to HTML
Our team at Mayven Studios has worked on web projects for a long time, over 15+ years now. Wow we are old. We started way…
Mayven at WWDC — Apple Developer Conference in San Jose
We’re excited to participate in Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in San Jose! Hope to see you there, and reach out to nate@mayvendev.com to…
Mayven Listed Amongst Leading Developers in San Francisco and Austin on Clutch
For years, we have helped small, medium, and large enterprises grow their businesses by delivering quality development services and solutions. We understand the importance of…
#NothingLess
Our team at Mayven is proud to be working in collaboration with Hired.com for Pay Equality during this month’s Equal Pay Day events throughout the…
What is the Difference Between Virtual and Augmented Reality?
Just a few years ago, we’d look at blurry photos of Earth taken by satellites in amazement at how far our technology had progressed. Today,…
Re-launching Mixpanel
After many hours of work and amazing effort from the Mixpanel and Mayven teams, we’re excited to announce the relaunch of the Mixpanel.com website! With…
Learn how to code WordPress sites
Learn the hidden secret power of WordPress, and craft beautiful, elegant code that will make you money! Our team at Mayven is launching a WordPress Tutorial…
Why Software Developers Should Track Their Time
This week’s post written by Dann Albright, Marketing Manager at Hubstaff Time tracking is a surprisingly controversial topic among developers. Some swear by it, and…
How (And Why) to Test Your Next Project Idea With a Remote Dev Team
It’s a tricky dilemma. Your business is growing, your priorities are already stretched, and there aren’t enough hours in the day. But you’ve had one…
Create Amazing Emails with the Really Good Email Checklist
Creating a great looking email campaign that also converts can be a challenge for even the cleverest marketer. That’s why our friends at Campaign Monitor…
8 Must-Have Chrome Browser Extensions for Agency Designers
Google’s continuous development of the Chrome browser has brought it a long way over the years, made especially useful due to a massive collection of…
The Ultimate Guide of How to Hire for Web Development
It’s easy these days to find a web developer Hell, do this search to jump right in. There’s loads of people out there wanting to…
Getting Started with Swift Development: 4 First Steps to Take
If you’ve ever thought of building an iOS or Mac app, then you need to get familiar with Swift. It’s the new programming language and…
5 Popular Node.js Frameworks (And What They Do)
Node.js is a tool to help developers build apps outside the browser environment using JavaScript. It’s an emerging technology that bridges the gap between the…
5 Best Cross-Platform Mobile Dev Tools for Your Next Project
A few years ago, building cross-platform mobile apps was difficult, to say the least. Developers had to write code and systems from scratch to develop…
Contract or full-time? Which to hire and how to evaluate the costs.
Building software is expensive And, making software is not like making widgets. They may call it computer science but maybe they should call it computer…
How Siri, Alexa, and Conversational Systems are Changing Business
The conversations of the future are between a person and a machine. With just a few voice prompts you can play music, look up information,…
Learning When to Say ʺNoʺ and Keep Perspective
Sometimes the best answer isn’t the one that’s easiest to say. While there are many business consultants that encourage you to say “yes” and take…
20 Inspiring Creative Agency Portfolio Page Designs From 2017
For a design agencies, your website is one of the most powerful weapons you have. It’s a great tool to showcase your skills, creativity, and…
Asana and How to Monetize Your Work By-Products
When Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein were working at Facebook, they found it difficult to effectively collaborate on the projects they were working on. So,…
4 Ways to Differentiate Your Agency Pitch (And Win More Business)
Winning high quality clients, reliably, is all about making a great first impression with your pitch. But it’s not just about having a well-designed slide…
What is Machine Learning? A 5 Minute Introduction
Machine learning still feels like a futuristic concept — a connected set of technologies and algorithms that allow computers to learn new skills, context, or…
20+ Best Mobile App Landing Pages of 2017
There are several types of landing page. You might be aiming to generate leads, tease a new product or service, offer a freebie, or ask…
How To Handle Project Scope Creep with Agency Clients
It comes in many forms and names. Whether you call it scope creep, requirement creep, function creep, or feature creep, it’s a challenge that all…
6 Killer Tips for Better Front-End Design
Building a beautiful, modern front-end design requires more consideration than ever before. From user experience, to bold visual elements, to animation — there’s a lot to…
4 Reasons Why You Donʹt Need an In-House Dev Team
The cost of employee salaries mounts up fast when you’re building a dev team — it’s well known that salaries are the biggest expense for…
How to Make Your Clients Fall in Love With Your Work
There are countless factors to consider in an agency-client relationship. You’ll need to be thinking about where to find your next client, how to pitch,…
Top 4 Issues Designers Have With Developers (And How to Fix Them)
Designers and developers don’t always get along too well. They can have two different mindsets, backgrounds, and approaches to work, which commonly leads to not…
How To Build, Develop, and Ship a Project in 3 Weeks
Do you have a stellar idea, but a short time frame? Or maybe you just need a deadline to jump-start your minimum viable product (MVP)…
8 Key Technology Trends to Expect in 2017
It can sometimes feel like technology is evolving too fast to keep up. But peek into the industry a bit, and you can see some…
How (And Why) to Eliminate Recurring Meetings
In the US, there are 25 million meetings per day. Unproductive meetings costs companies more than $35 billion per year, and these meetings waste 15%…
6 UX Tools and Trends Creative Agencies Should Try in 2017
It doesn’t matter how much money and work you put into developing an amazing looking website or an app, if it doesn’t offer any value…
3 Traits That Separate Great Software Teams From Good Software Teams
A good software team can help you meet your digital needs, but might leave you wanting for more. A great software team anticipates the needs…
Should You Develop an Apple Watch App?
To create a watch app or not to create a watch app, that is the question. When you are thinking about digital design strategy it’s…
4 Tools to Create Functional Mockups Without Code Compared
Have you ever wondered why companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft invest millions of dollars in creating prototypes of products before sending them into production?…
3 Ways to Add Application Development to Your Agency Repertoire
Application development is becoming more important for your business every day. You don’t just need a website and team to build and develop it; having…
Getting Started With Open Source and GitHub
When Linus Torvalds first released the original version of Linux back in 1994 under the General Public License (GNU), he would’ve never even imagined how…
Make a Great First Impression with a New Agency Client
Successfully closing a deal with a client depends on how comfortable they feel with your agency. And it all starts with your first meeting with…
How To Keep Your Agency Team Skilled Up
Have you ever wondered why some companies get stuck in routines and stop developing? This could happen to your team. New trends and technologies are…
15+ Examples of Design Agency & Brand Style Guides
Have you ever considered developing a properly documented style guide to build your brand identity? Often times this question receive a negative answer. And don’t…
5 Steps to Creating an Awesome Design Agency Culture
Finding productivity advice online is easy. Just do a quick Google search for “productivity tips” and you’ll get over 38 million results with plenty of…
Hiring From Anywhere: Why You Should Think Distributed Team First
Buffer, the company behind the popular social media marketing tool, recently reached a special milestone as their team grew bigger. Now, the company gets powered…
10 Essential Apps for Running a Web Design Agency
Finding clients, managing projects, tracking team progress, organizing finances. Running a web design business is no walk in the park. Thankfully, you’re not living in…
4 Project Management Apps for Design Agencies Compared
Have you ever wondered how some entrepreneurs are able to run companies and manage teams even while they’re traveling around the world or relaxing on…
5 Tips for Growing Your Web Design Agency
After successfully launching a new web design company and receiving a few repeat clients, most businesses usually gets trapped inside a comfort zone. They just…
4 Tools for Quick, Professional Invoicing Compared
Do you still use Google Docs to create invoices for your clients? Or generate dull invoices with PayPal? Then it’s time for an upgrade because…
25+ Best Design Agency Websites of 2017
Learn How Mayven Works With Creative Agencies Planning on designing a website for your agency, or maybe revamping your old site? Well, you came to…
How To Choose a Name for Your Design Agency
Coming up with the perfect name for your business might just be the hardest part of starting up a web design company. You’ll come up…
Starting a Web Design Agency: 5 First Steps to Take
So, you’ve just finished learning all the necessary skills for designing websites, saved up some money, read some articles on entrepreneurship, and now you’re all…
How to Create Client Work That Gets Your Design Agency Noticed
With more and more people learning to code and use Photoshop, web design has now grown to be one of the most competitive industries in…
15+ Inspiring Design Agency Portfolio Websites
Having a killer design agency portfolio website is the best way to persuade your big design clients to hire you. Your portfolio website is the…
Onboarding Design Agency Clients: 6 Vital Tips & Ideas
Have you ever wondered why 90% of all startups fail within the first year? Well, there are many reasons, but the most common reason of…
30+ Best Infographic Templates for Illustrator
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Software Development Team. Infographics give you a way to represent information in a…
20+ Annual Report Templates
Like these Design tips? You’ll like our software developers more. Learn more about our Custom Software Developers. Getting that annual report right is important. Whether it’s…
Website Navigation Trends: 10 Tips & Examples
Like these Website Design tips? You’ll like our website developers more. Learn more about our WordPress CMS Developers. By now the term “hamburger menu” is something we…
How to Design a Killer Annual Report
Like these annual report examples? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Regardless of when your company’s fiscal year ends,…
Designing Hover Styles and the Future of the Technique
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Software Development Team. Despite arguments that hover styles are dead, these small boxes…
Do You Have a Design Checklist?
While every project is unique, every project also has a set of things and processes that are always part of your workflow. That’s where having…
10 Crucial Elements for Any Website Design
Like these design tips? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Services. While every designer may have a different plan when it…
How to Build a Brand Bible & Visual Style Guide
Like these brand tips? You’ll like our software developers more. Learn more about our Software Application Developers. Every brand, from the smallest website or startup, to…
20 Fresh Sites With Amazing Scrolling Effects
Like these Scrolling Samples? You’ll like our front-end developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Scrolling effects are becoming more and more popular as…
12 Brilliant Direct Marketing Pieces You Have to See
Like these Marketing tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Mobile Application Developers. Direct marketing is all about connecting with customers in a real way….
35 Awesome Fluid and Elastic Layout Examples, Templates and Tutorials
Like these design tips? You’ll like our developers more. Learn more about our Front-end Development Team. Fluid and elastic layouts are extremely useful for creating websites…
50 Fantastically Clever Logos
Like these logos? You’ll like our code better. Learn more about Mayven Front-end Development. I know everybody and their brother does logo roundups so…
15 Tips for Designing Terrific Tables
Like these Website Design tips? You’ll like our website developers more. Learn more about our WordPress CMS Developers. Tables of information are boring. In a sense,…
20 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme
Like these Website Design tips? You’ll like our website developers more. Learn more about our WordPress Website Developers. As a designer, color management should be an…