October 7, 2024
BLA delivers quality according to world standards
Ballast Lane Applications has forged a valuable partnership with the ISTQB
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Expert Insights
September 23, 2024
Setting the development team up for success with effective designs
How to set yourself up for success by ensuring that designs are ready and collaboration continues throughout the development process.
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February 20, 2024
Bluetooth management at Ballast Lane Applications
We have several clients that require Bluetooth connections and beacon management. Learn more here.
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February 13, 2024
A tool to create Flutter projects more efficiently
We have created a tool that simplifies the project creation process.
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February 6, 2024
How we conquer industry expertise
At Ballast Lane we are agnostic when it comes to the industries we work in, and it’s important to be knowledgeable and be ready to dig in when we start a new project.
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January 23, 2024
How we have been helping Private Equity Firms
Ballast Lane Applications has started to partner with Private Equity Firms because they tend to have portfolio companies that are in need of some sort of boost, or expertise in certain areas.
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December 26, 2023
How nearshore teams give you the best of both worlds
Here are some things we have been hearing from current and potential clients: “Our costs are too high”, “Our backlog is overwhelming”, “We have gaps in our capabilities”, “We need help!”. We can help!
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September 13, 2023
Business Analysts: Project glue
Our business analysts are the glue that hold our projects together.
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September 6, 2023
Implementing a Chatbot Proof of Concept
Our team was tasked with implementing a Chatbot for a client.
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September 6, 2023
Developing an Expert System as a First Step for AI
Our approach to incorporating machine learning into a client product.
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August 24, 2023
Ballast Lane Applications makes the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies
We made the list of fastest growing companies in the USA!
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July 31, 2023
AWS Associate Certified, Ready to Bring our Infrastructure to the Next Level
The BLA DevOps Team is now AWS Associate Certified and excited to continue their good work
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July 17, 2023
AI in Action: Making Digital Products More Useful Than Ever
AI is the new buzzword that you can’t avoid. Is there an opportunity for your team to take advantage of AI? At Ballast Lane, we’re no strangers to this trend.
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July 13, 2023
An evaluation of GitHub Copilot as a tool for React Developers
Our team has been digging into different AI tools, and how best to use them.
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July 7, 2023
Flutter and GitHub Copilot - An Assessment
Part one of a two part series on our experience with using GitHub Copilot for mobile app development with Flutter.
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June 27, 2023
Boosting Node.js Performance with GitHub Copilot
In this blog post, we will explore how to leverage Copilot to improve the performance of your Node.js applications, helping you build faster and more efficient code.
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June 20, 2023
Demystifying Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Software Testing to best serve our clients' needs
Determining the need for QA, QC, and Software Testing in a project involves several considerations.
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June 7, 2023
Fostering collaboration with the Everything DiSC® Personal Development Learning Experience
Implementing the DISC assessment has been a valuable asset for Ballast Lane Applications. It has enabled us to leverage diversity, understand individual personalities, and cultivate a collaborative work environment. By embracing the insights gained from the DISC assessment, we continue to enhance our team dynamics, improve relationships, and foster continuous growth and learning.
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May 29, 2023
Ballast Lane Applications: A Transparent Look into Our Recruiting Process
Ballast Lane Applications' (BLA) robust evaluation process and commitment to its core values make it a standout organization in recruitment, with over 600 and 1,000 candidates interviewed in 2021 and 2022, respectively. BLA's recruiting efforts resulted in a remarkable 21% and 16% of candidates successfully receiving offers. The company maintained a commendable turnover rate of 14% and 12% during the probationary period in the respective years.
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May 24, 2023
From Chaos to Cohesion: The Power of Creating a Design System
A design system is like a toolbox, containing reusable design assets and guidelines that enable the creation of a consistent and cohesive user experience throughout a digital product, including design patterns, UI components, typography, color palettes, and more, here we show you the principals, the steps to create a design systems and some reference.
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May 17, 2023
Breaking Down the Product Redesign Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
Improve the user experience of your digital product with a successful redesign. Learn when it's the right time to redesign, common challenges, and key steps to follow, including research, defining scope, design exploration, testing, implementing changes, and measuring success.
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May 5, 2023
How AI is Enhancing Productivity and Creativity
Are you ready to use artificial intelligence to increase your productivity and creativity? Using AI can be a real game-changer in the design and development of digital products, and this article shows you how.
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May 1, 2023
Revolutionizing a Traditional Industry through Digital Innovation
Ballast Lane Applications has helped companies in traditional industries benefit from digital innovation through thoughtful design and development, leading to efficiencies and customer satisfaction.
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April 10, 2023
Designing for accessibility can enhance the user experience for everyone
Designing for accessibility can enhance the user experience for everyone. Accessibility is about making sure that digital products and services are designed in a way that allows people with disabilities to use them. However, accessibility features can also benefit everyone, regardless of ability.
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March 17, 2023
How to ensure a great first date with your app: Better onboarding
How to create a great onboarding for your website or app that improve the user conversion, tips and steps you will need to follow in order to create the perfect onboarding process.
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February 15, 2023
Thoughtful Product Design
I was running on a hotel treadmill recently and I came across an excellent example of terrible user interface design. On the screen, the “TV” on/off button was directly above, and very close to “Cooldown”. When running, it was impossible to tap the TV button without hitting Cooldown, and at that point there was no option to resume. Clearly the person who designed this screen had never used a treadmill before, or taken the time to consider how difficult it is to accurately tap a button when running. At Ballast Lane Applications we take pride in owning the products we design and build, by becoming part of the product team. We don’t take a client’s word at face value, and instead we challenge, question, dig into the details, present alternatives, iterate, test, iterate some more. This has resulted in long term, trusting relationships, and a lot of thoughtful, user friendly products.
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November 1, 2022
BLA Business Analysts - Scrum Certified!
We are proud to announce that our BA team has earned the title "Certified Scrum Master" from Scrum Alliance.
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October 1, 2022
BLA's Approach to Cloud and Data Migration
What to do when you need to migrate infrastructure and integrations.
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September 1, 2022
How a Few One Liners on a Napkin Can Become a Digital Product
At Ballast Lane Applications, we work with clients in different ways. As COO and responsible for all client delivery, I cannot play favorites, but the “full service product development” does have a special place in my heart
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April 8, 2022
BLA is now SOC2 TYPE 1 Compliant!
We are pleased to announce that BLA has achieved its SOC2 Type 1 compliance and wanted to share a little about our journey.
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March 2, 2022
Design Thoughts from the Sandwich Generation
Years of trying different things, gathering feedback, iterating on ideas, and working with lots of different teams provides a wealth of experience.
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February 15, 2022
Partnering with External Design and Engineering Teams
Your CTO insists on hiring in-house, but we all know what the market is like at the moment. So you wait…if this sounds even vaguely familiar, read on!
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January 31, 2022
Adventures in Building Websites Using Headless CMS
Summary of our experience using Contentstack as a headless content management system with a React frontend deployed with Gatsby.
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November 3, 2021
Building an Application for Vuzix Smart Glasses
The BLA team had the opportunity to work with a leading healthcare entity to design and build a proof of concept using Vuzix smart glasses.
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October 1, 2021
Finally, Face to Face With My Team in a Beautiful Country!
Pat Milner (VP, Client Solutions) shares her experience travelling to our South American HQ.
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January 13, 2021
Building Software from Scratch: Advice for Budding Entrepreneurs
I gave a talk to a group of MBA Students at The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and shared these four learnings from our work with early stage start-ups.
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March 30, 2020
Restaurant Quick Pivot to Contactless Order Taking
Blue Point Brewing’s pub is now running its entire business through the (new and improved) mobile ordering pickup and delivery solution.
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February 28, 2020
BLA's Approach to Data Engineering
We define Data Engineering is all about systems whose role is to store, provide access to, transform, merge, and move heterogeneous organizational and external data.
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December 30, 2019
Design Thinking for Software Development
Design Thinking is an approach we use at Ballast Lane to make sure we are building the right products for the right people.
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December 1, 2019
Micro-service Architecture for Application Performance
There is a critical stage that often gets overlooked or doesn't get the attention it needs, which is the architecture definition.
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November 4, 2019
Sometimes, Starting Small Makes Sense
When I explained how we at Ballast Lane would have approached and executed the project, she said, “you should come and do a brown bag lunch for all of our researchers and tell them this!”.
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September 25, 2019
Designing And Developing Behavior Change Tools
There are a lot of factors competing for people’s time, attention, money, and physical/cyber space (wearables, devices, apps, etc). Behavior change tools…
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June 20, 2019
Self-service Restaurant Ordering App Built on Toast APIs
Blue Point Brewing, a Long Island craft beer brewery, decided to open their new Brew Pub in downtown Patchogue with a digital food and beer ordering concept.
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May 22, 2019
How to Achieve Meaningful User Behavior from Internet of Things Implementations
The Internet of Things, IoT, has become a buzz phrase. Very simply, it is the extension of Internet connectivity into objects and physical devices.
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May 15, 2019
Why Clutch is a Great Independent Resource for Clients
We pride ourselves on having happy, loyal clients. It's great to get positive feedback from Clutch and here is how it’s helping with our outreach.
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May 10, 2019
Cannabis Digital Presence: Transparency, Understanding and Connection
Three characteristics can be presented as best practice when developing a digital presence: transparency, understanding and connection.
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April 25, 2019
Our Journey with Clients from Concept to Launched Product: Four Key Steps
We journeys with our clients through four main phases: initiation, discovery, development and then finally support and then, in most cases, we begin the journey again.
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January 3, 2019
An Android App Can Increase your Addressable Market by 40% or More
Many give priority to an iOS (Apple) app over an Android app. However, that ignores a bug part of the market - especially outside the U.S.
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July 18, 2018
Trying to Make Virtual Reality a Reality in Your Retail Space? – Here’s What You Should Consider!
Bringing Virtual Reality into the retail space is a trend that continues to grow. This post will layout the questions to consider before moving forward.
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March 10, 2018
Flooring America Releases “My Design Finder” to help consumers find inspiration for flooring projects
Ballast Lane Applications designed and developed the user experience to help consumers quickly find the right flooring for their project.
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January 30, 2018
Choosing the Perfect Fit of VR Hardware for Your Retail Space is Not Easy
Matching your retail space with VR hardware is a difficult task. Here is what You should consider.
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July 10, 2017
CCA Global Releases Completely New Convention App for iOS and Android
For the Summer Building Buzz convention, CCA has launched a completely new iOS and Android convention app.
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May 10, 2017
Greater Lynn Senior Services Launches App for Alzheimer Caregivers
GLSS launched the first generation of their mobile app to help those caring for Alzheimer sufferers build patience, perseverance and peace.
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March 10, 2017
Meter Data Portal Helps Building Administrators to Make Better Decisions
Energy Technology Savings is now collecting live meter data from internet connected Lexus power meters.
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January 10, 2017
Guideposts Launches Prayer App for Android Designed to Encourage Your Faith
Guideposts released the Android version of it’s popular Prayer App for Android this month built by Ballast Lane Applications. You can access it here.
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December 10, 2016
Provant Launches Humology Apps for iOS and Android Built by Ballast Lane Applications
Provant launched mobile versions of their industry-leading Humology participant portal for iOS and Android this month.
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September 15, 2016
Building Awareness for Your App and Receiving Authentic Feedback
Building awareness is a process with many steps and many options that should start from the first day through design choices and thinking ahead.
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August 30, 2016
Two Fundamentals on Building Your Mobile App – an Experienced Team and Reliable Tools
There are two fundamentals in the process of bringing your vision to live a) an experienced, multifaceted team and b) reliable tools that are easy to use.
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June 6, 2016
The Design Phase in App Development, a Step by Step Guide Including Best Practices
OK, you have an app that you want to build. Next up is the design phase which will now make or break your mobile project.
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May 29, 2016
How to pick your mobile opportunity and product feature criteria
Everyone is going mobile now. You hear this everyday and feel the pressure to build mobile apps that support your business, engage your customers and set you apart.
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May 18, 2016
Flooring America's My Floor Style Wins Stevie Silver Medal from American Business Awards
Flooring America's My Floor Style app won a silver medal from the the American Business Awards.
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March 1, 2016
Nest and Insteon API Now Integrated Into ETS Emerald's Senzorz App
The team just completed the integration of Nest and Insteon API's into ETS Emerald's Senzorz app.
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February 20, 2016
Second Research App Deployed for the International Food Productivity Research Institute
The second survey application developed by Ballast Lane Applications for the International Food Productivity Research Institute has been deployed to the field.
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