A prototype of having a meaningful conversation with non-talkative objects.
You love your garden but your garden doesn’t love you back. You try to do the right thing, but what is the right thin...
How we work with self-organizing teams and keep improving our craftsmanship.
For building user-friendly and appealing digital interfaces we currently have a growing team of about 15 frontend developer...
How emojis can be the tool to creating a more empathetic digital healthcare service
The four layers of empathy and its value in digital communication and healthcare
In the past few years, emojis have grown to be a fun way to enrich conversations, brands and videos. Unknowingly, they ...
Observations on Chinese design - how worst practices create competitive advantage
I recently joined Mirabeau after living in China for six years. When comparing cultures, it is an easy mistake to think in terms of ‘better’ and worse’; I have learned this is invalid – cultures are ‘...
Eerder dit jaar schreef ik over de nieuwe identificatiediensten Idensys en iDIN. Om een compleet beeld te schetsen heb ik toen ook de bestaande diensten DigiD en eHerkenning behandelt. De ontwikkeling...
Sitecore becomes a first class citizen with marketing automation
During the Sitecore Symposium held in Las Vegas in October Sitecore released the latest version of its Experience platform version 9. The new major release of Sitecore brings a host of new features, b...
Enriching a digital assistant conversation via your TV
A great challenge when building voicebot solutions using popular devices like the Amazon Echo or the Google Home is to visualize content. When having a conversation with your favourite voice assistant...
Cloud cognitive services are supporting us to create many great solutions. For example, in this blogpost we discussed our face recognition demo and how it makes use of these services. Equipped with t...
Nowadays everyone can look up a translation through Google or some other fascinating translation app or service in a matter of seconds. But how about making such an app yourself? Sounds challenging? N...
Bringing a bit of functional programming to your codebase
Recently I have picked up an interest in functional programming. Its concepts fascinate me: applying math to enable strong abstractions and fo...
Closing the loop: managing production stability versus delivery velocity
People who come from a traditional IT environment will recognize the conflicts that occur when a release goes from development into production. In a situation where the development and operations orga...
