A ZAPD.co.za talk by guest speaker Almari Carosini A blog by Liesel Bester, COO of IO Digital #ZAPD, South Africa’s brand new digital product design community, hosted its first online meetup for 2021 to spark conversations that matter to the community. Digital product design is already pretty well established as…

by Johnathan Dell One of the most notable causes of change anxiety I have seen during my career working for various tech companies is not knowing how significant or breaking changes could affect the entire software development life cycle (SDLC). This is purely an opinion piece, take it with a pinch of salt. Long-term support (LTS) is a product lifecycle management policy in which a stable release of computer software is maintained for a longer period of time than the standard edition. [1]

Digital product design is still in its relative infancy in South Africa. While some of us have been at it for a while, designing beautiful tech products and interfaces for people to enjoy, the industry is not that big yet. …

Combine the best of Design Thinking, Lean and Agile to create products people will love — - By Bobby Sequeira Great technology products can certainly be a lifeline to society right now, and as we adapt to a new online normal there are plenty of opportunities in the product creation space to solve many of the world’s problems. The tricky part for any product development team…

Africa is the breadbasket of the world, but much of its agricultural value chain management and financing are still paper-based, inefficient and opaque. This needed to change. Creating online technologies for this market comes with its own challenges. Users, and in particular those in rural areas, often struggle with poor network coverage and high data costs, older generation devices with ailing…

A talk by Nicola du Toit, Steve Barnett from Empathy Labradors — It’s not that all of the web designers out there that haven’t embraced “accessibility” yet, actually mean to be assholes to their users. Most often it’s a case of ignorance and misconception — and that can be fixed. Today being Global Accessibility Awareness Day, it’s a particularly good day to…

— A simple introduction — By Gareth Nicholson Progressive Web Apps or PWAs are the it thing in web development at the moment. Why wouldn’t it be? The promise of a website behaving like a native app, without all the hassles. PWAs allow you to “install” your website on the user’s home screen, work without…

For The Next Billion Internet Users — As a Google Developer Expert working in Africa, I work at the coalface of tech for emerging markets, and one of the web tech developments for this market that I am most excited about is Progressive Web Apps or PWAs. By Johann du Toit For a long time now the…

For Curious Programmers — Machine learning is transforming the world around us and enabling technology that previously only existed in sci-fi movies. By Alex Conway Instead of needing to hand-code rules to solve challenging problems such as computer vision, speech recognition and self-driving cars, programmers can build systems that enable computers to “learn” how…