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by: Alyn Parry and Ryan Ernst Welcome to the first post in the IQ Ask an Architect Series! In this series of posts, I will be collaborating with one or more of our Systems Architects to pick their brains on various topics. This week I jumped on a Google Meet to talk with Alyn […]
At IQ we love to recognize those employees that we believe are “Living the Values”. Our most recent recipient of this award was Chris Smith. Chris is a part of our excellent talent management team. This team is responsible for finding the right candidates for our project team at the IQ office as well as […]
by: Ryan Ernst As someone who frequently switches between programming languages, I have developed a mostly-useless-super-power. I have gained the ability to forget basic syntax and built-in methods within days; more importantly, I can find answers to most syntax questions in less than 30 seconds. I have a suspicion that google-fu is a skill that […]
On Thursday February 25th, IQ held the 7th installment of our Tech Trivia. Tech Trivia was contrived by a team internally with the idea of creating an informal yet challenging, competitive, and most importantly FUN event that would act as a networking forum to provide opportunity for Pittsburgh technical professionals and those sharing common […]
by: Ryan Ernst You hate to see it. You just started a new project. Things are going great. You decide it is time to get serious — so you start a second file and begin moving the extraneous functions into that file. You finish the cleanup effort. Feeling great. Let’s run it one more time […]
Over the past couple of weekends, some of our dedicated IQ employees took some of their personal time to participate in two local hackathons. The Pittsburgh Civic Hackathon, and Pitt’s Women’s Hackathon, SheInnovates 2021. IQ was a Gold Sponsor for SheInnovates, as well as being a Participating Sponsor for the Pittsburgh Civic Hackathon. IQ software […]
Through trial and error (in 2020), we came together, discovered and implemented new ways to help our customers, our communities and one another! We adopted new ways to stay connected. We gained a renewed sense of community; we embraced life with family and for many, we discovered ourselves, what makes us happy. “OUR WHY”. Why […]
In late November, the IQ Social Good Committee met to discuss how we could give back to our community, while staying safe during COVID. In years past, IQ held toy drives within the office. Employees would purchase gifts and place them under a tree, however this year would be different. It was difficult to pick […]
Welcome to the eighth and final article in our user experience series. In our previous post, we discussed the importance of accessibility when designing and building products usable by everyone. In this post, we will learn about the importance of understanding the psychology of users when designing our products along with some interesting and common […]
Welcome to the seventh article in our user experience series. In our previous post, we discussed the importance of usability testing and some techniques for running a successful usability test. In this post, we will learn why and how to design inclusive and accessible products. In case you missed them, you can find the other […]
