Strategy & Advisory

Digital products integrated into real-world environments can exert a range of influences, from enhancing individual user experiences to boosting the profits of an organization that launches them. In healthcare software, 'impact' takes on various meanings for different stakeholders. At Mind Studios, we view impactful healthcare software development as placing humans — primarily patients and healthcare professionals — at the core of our approach. This article is dedicated to exploring precisely

In Mind Studios’ experience, creating a user-centered design in healthcare is just as critical as assembling a skilled team or raising sufficient funds for the project implementation. Why? Well, simply because it directly influences whether the software will get embraced by patients and medical professionals. No matter how state-of-the-art it is, a healthcare software solution simply won’t stick if it is built in a vacuum, without the involvement of the people for whom it is created in the fir

As the software development market continues to grow rapidly and steadily, so do software development costs. In 2022, IT spending on enterprise software worldwide reached around $783 billion, increasing by 7.1% compared to the previous year. In 2023, this spending is forecasted to amount to around $856 billion. This puts a strain on the market. 46% of IT companies in Europe and North America name increases in product costs as one of the main challenges they face when purchasing new hardware

According to statistics from Clutch, 83% of small businesses will maintain or increase their spending on outsourced business services in 2023. And IT outsourcing is among the top three most popular requests, alongside marketing and design. Businesses outsource IT tasks for numerous reasons: to cut costs during times of recession, to focus on strategic goals, and simply because during the pandemic we all learned that managing remote teams efficiently is possible. However, IT outsourcing comes

If your business is in any way connected to information technology and software (and you probably wouldn’t be here reading this if it weren’t) you must have heard of massive layoffs in tech companies in 2022 and 2023. You must have also heard that, contrary to the fact that layoffs took place, there’s actually a shortage of tech talent on the market. One of the solutions for the latter is IT staff augmentation. Mind Studios provides IT personnel augmentation services alongside other cooperat

There are plenty of metrics for analyzing user engagement. However, you don’t need to track all of them. What user engagement metrics you should track depends on the specifics of your business and the category of your mobile app. Engagement metrics like the number of items added to the cart and the cart abandonment rate are highly relevant for eCommerce mobile apps but completely unusable for news or social media apps. In turn, for social media apps, it’s better to track the amount of time use

Mind Studios has worked with multiple outsourcing cooperation models. However, based on our experience, sooner or later most of our long-term clients request a remote dedicated development team. After all, this model is the closest to working with an in-house team — minus the enormous expenses associated with the latter one. So, when and why should you hire a dedicated team? How can your business benefit from such cooperation? And what to consider when hiring a dedicated software development t

Rising focus on personal health and wellness, rapid evolution in technology, and the critical need for accessible healthcare are just a few factors that have triggered a surge in healthcare app development. Now that more doctors and patients than ever are on board with using mHealth apps, it might be high time to build a product that meets their needs. Read also: How to Build Custom CRM Software from Scratch So, why does the mHealth app market look so promising today? How to make a heal

Entering China’s market means, first and foremost, getting to know WeChat and figuring out how to make a WeChat Mini Program. Launched in 2011, WeChat, an instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app, has 1,26 billion monthly active users as of 2022. And it gets better: when WeChat’s success skyrocketed, in 2017 the creators, Tencent, introduced WeChat Mini Programs — easy-to-create tiny apps within the WeChat application, widely used by business owners in all kinds of industries. N

In this article, we talk about the remote software development hiring processes you should go through if you have an app idea and wish to build a successful product. We also cover recommendations on how to hire remote developers or software development teams and things to look out for. Read on for industry insights from a software development company. Remote is the new normal, and home is the new workplace. While this all started due to pandemic lockdowns, recent research by Ipsos shows that a

Wrapping your mind around software development processes can be hard. When you come up with an idea and approach developers with it, the first two things you ask are how much it will cost to implement and how long it will take to build. Estimation is one of the first steps in app development. In this article, we compare the two most popular estimation models in modern software development: Agile story points vs hours. Read on to learn how to estimate time in Agile, get the gist of both estim

Entrepreneurs have mixed opinions of software development outsourcing these days, and for good reason. The failure of a payroll app development project outsourced to IBM in 2007 cost the Queensland health department $1.2 billion. On the other hand, outsourcing development to the US allowed Jack Ma Yun, the founder of the Chinese company Alibaba, to bring in $60+ billion in revenue in 2021. What did Ma know that Queensland Health didn’t? In this article, you’ll figure out how to reduce the ri