Svitlana Varaksina

The difference between single-player and multiplayer game level design is one of the biggest gaps game designers need to jump over in their upskilling. You can use the same art or 3D models for both single-player and multiplayer games. And while the job of developers will be considerably more tricky when dealing with networking functionality and state synchronization, it’s not that different at its core. We do, however, get a whole new set of rules and specifics to keep in mind when it comes t

Highlights: * Mental health apps offer privacy, flexibility, and affordability, making them increasingly popular among users. * With mental issues becoming more common and traditional therapy often being stigmatized or inaccessible, mental health apps serve as an accessible solution to a wide range of users. * The mental health app market is expected to reach $3.7 billion by 2027, presenting a huge opportunity for businesses to create impactful solutions with mental health app development.

Highlights * Today, Millennials and Gen Z are turning to reading apps, with the biggest part of them reading even more than previous generations. * Busy lifestyles of people are driving the growth of ebook reader app development, which creates a blooming market for digital reading apps. * Ebook application development not only helps you tap into a growing market but also gives readers comfy access to books, and offers authors and publishers a powerful platform to both reach and engage with

How many messenger apps can you count off the top of your head? Probably more than one. They’re quite varied these days, and users have a range to choose from. At the same time, there’s always something lacking—just a little bit—but users always crave something else. That’s why there’s still space in the messaging app development market. Creating a WhatsApp-like app presents various obstacles for businesses. First, effective app security measures to protect user data and user privacy are criti

In 2024, a grocery delivery app development project remains a lucrative business opportunity. The reason is simple: with global digitalization, online shopping has become a standard practice for all customer segments, including older adults. With a convenient and user-friendly app, grocery shopping is no longer a chore but a simple task that can be completed within minutes. According to data from Statista, 58 percent of millennial consumers in the UK would buy grocery products mostly via e-com

So you’ve come up with an app idea. That’s cool. You’re cool. Now you need to take that abstract idea and turn it into an actual application. The mobile app design and development process requires a lot of work (and time and money). But what about the details? How should you approach it? Where should you start? How do you maintain it, monetize, and market it? We have answers to these questions and many more. With more than a decade in business, we at Mind Studios successfully delivered various

This year, the market size value of the healthcare IT market reached $192.2 billion, making more and more people wonder whether it’s time to enter the niche and seize some of that profit. To do that on the US market, you need to not only come up with an innovative app idea but also to make sure that your solution will meet the HIPAA compliance software checklist. There are laws of this kind in countries all over the world but in this article, we will specifically focus on HIPAA. HIPAA (Healt

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

In our fast-paced digital era, new trends and technologies are emerging every day, making websites more interactive, fast, and engaging. As a web development company, we’re interested in keeping abreast of these things. MyMP3Pool, a digital music streaming platform for DJs, was suffering from a significant decrease in user traffic when its owner came to us. We completely rebuilt the platform, which skyrocketed user engagement. According to the post-launch poll, 67.9% of MyMP3Pool users were sa

Businesses all over the world rush to go more digital, and for a reason: between data breach scandals, world governments doubling down on data security regulations, and the spread of AI, the competition is getting quite fierce in just about any niche. Surprisingly, digital transformation in logistics wasn’t at the forefront of the global change trends until just recently. An industry historically known to be a forerunner of innovation is lagging behind today. A lot of logistics companies are r

With over 5 million apps in app stores across platforms, what else can people wish for? Turns out, quite a lot. To learn the good mobile app ideas for 2023, read on. For almost a decade now, Mind Studios has been outsourcing mobile app development for multiple industries, from health and fitness to secure communication and real estate. With dozens of projects behind us, we know which ideas for apps are worth the shot, and which require significant alterations. In this article, we offer top i

With inflation high and staring in the face of possible global recession, many a property manager seeks ways to increase their margins and sell properties faster to ever-cautions buyers. Property management using Internet of Things (or IoT) is one of the options that can help business owners here. Maybe even the one with most lucrative prospects. Global consumer and business spending on Internet of Things was forecasted to reach 1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2022. Almost a third of that spending

According to The Good Body, more than 300 million people worldwide practice yoga. By 2022, the global market for yoga is said to have reached USD 88 billion, its CAGR exceeding the predictions made in 2021. Today, the yoga market’s CAGR is 11.7% (it was predicted to be around 9.6% before). If you’re thinking about jumping on this bandwagon, Mind Studios can help you validate your idea about online yoga app development and build a working MVP — as a company whose portfolio features several yoga

As a mobile app development company, we’ve been keeping an eye on AI trends for a while, trying new technologies and exploring the ways to employ them in our projects. In this article, we’ll be using this accumulated knowledge to talk about artificial intelligence in mobile apps and how AI is changing everything, from app usage to its development. Did you know that the use of artificial intelligence is forecasted to help increase global GDP by $15.7 trillion by 2030? That’s because AI boosts b

Today, it's hard to imagine a company operating without a CRM system. However, not always the CRM users' expectations are met. For example, the MarTech Replacement Survey 2022 conducted among 300 marketing companies showed their teams were replacing marketing automation and CRM solutions at a higher rate than any other applications. Why so? When entrepreneurs apply to us to build a custom CRM system, usually we observe three main cases: 1. The number of clients increases greatly, so the Goo

More and more companies developing their own mobile apps take the extra steps to ensure mobile application data security — and for a good reason. According to the 2021 annual report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the year 2021 was a record high in the number of data compromises — 1,862 instances. At the time of us writing this article, in three quarters of 2022, the center reported 1,291 data compromises so far. That’s data on publicly disclosed breaches in the US only. On ave