Ideation and Interactive Prototypes Welcome to the fifth article in our user experience series. In our previous post, we took a slight detour to discuss typography and its ability to promote clarity, readability, and accessibility in good user experience design. In this post, we will look at the next step after performing extensive user research […]

Managing the state of Angular components can become complex as your component grows. Note: As of the ngrx version 10 release, it is now recommended to use @ngrx/component-store for easier Angular component state management. However, the concepts outlined in this article still apply. A simple approach to handle your component’s state is with component member […]

  At IQ, our vision is to Impact the Quality of Life through Technology. We want to make a difference, and we want to create that difference using technology. Until now, we’ve adopted a just-in-time approach to the technologies we use and how we use them — but that all changes this year. The Technology […]

Up to this point in our UI/UX blog series, we’ve discussed Why UX Is Important, How To Conduct User Research, and Writing Meaningful User Stories. This week we are going to take a slight diversion. We’ll be talking about typography and its importance to the user experience. Good type design promotes clarity, readability, and accessibility. […]

Writing Meaningful User Stories Welcome to the third article in our user experience series! In our previous post, we discussed how to conduct user research in order to understand the user’s needs, desires, and constraints to better inform your UX designs. Now that you have compiled the results of your research, how can you best […]

ARTICLE ONE – EXAMINING THE PERSPECTIVES (AGILE – VS – REGULATED DEVELOPMENT) Greetings everyone, and welcome to the opening article in a series of blog posts concerning Medical Device Development using AGILE techniques.  I will begin by firmly stating that I am no expert on this subject.  I am, however, a successful practitioner of the […]

Welcome to the second article in our user experience series here at IQ Inc! In our previous post, we laid the foundation for why user experience is important to both the user and the business. If you’d like to learn more about that or refresh your memory, please check out the previous post here: https://iq-inc.com/why-ux-is-important. […]

Do you enjoy type-safety? Check out what Jeremy Zacharia, a Software Engineer at IQ Inc., worked on in his home office during this pandemic. Jeremy dove deep into how one can leverage Typescript in a monorepository. Please check out the following article that dives into backend and frontend architecture, as well as dependency restriction.   […]

MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT USING AGILE PRINCIPLES Read all about it!! Medical Device Software Series Update! Beginning in April 2020, we will begin publishing a blog series on performing Medical Device Development using Agile/Scrum  methodologies.  Many myths and misconceptions exist on this subject, and some folks believe that using Agile methods are completely incompatible with medical […]

Welcome to the first article in our user experience series from IQ Inc! For the first post in the series, we will explain why a proper understanding of user experience (UX) is essential for IQ and our clients when creating or updating products. What is user experience? User experience has become a buzzword in the […]