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Victor gives a hit and run account of the speakers and topics he saw at the Interaction Design Association's Conference in Dublin.

Our designer, Victor Sirotek, reports on the first day of a conference held by the Interaction Design Association in Dublin.

We created rspec-requestable-examples, which is an RSpec extension that gives you the ability to defined shared example groups where you can explicitly include which examples to run.

The use of smart phones is on the rise, however SMS text messaging is still the best way to reach the broadest customer base, especially in developing countries. If you have a Ruby on Rails application that needs to reach this broad customer base, Twilio is an excellent tool to have in your toolbox.

When Ideomed came to Mutually Human with their flagship product, abriiz, they needed help with basic bug fixes and functionality. As the relationship evolved, Mutually Human became a strategic partner in the design and implementation of this innovative asthma management platform.

To celebrate the season of giving, we'd like to take a look back at a wonderful volunteer event that took place in October. Along with dozens of volunteers and non-profits from the community, Mutually Human had the opportunity to participate in Give Camp, Grand Rapids.

Here at Mutually Human, we are excited to announce a new phase of Syncr, our custom application for syncing data between Harvest and Quickbooks Online.

Movember turned out to be a great month at Mutually Human. We got to wear mustaches, and we raised a bunch of money for a good cause. As a team, we were able to raise $700 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG.

November is shaping up to be a fun and hairy month this year. The Movember participants’ upper lips are finally past the awkward stage and filling in nicely. But donations are at an all-time low. So, we’re taking a page out of the NPR/PBS fundraising playbook. We’re giving stuff away to people who donate! While we don’t have any tote-bags, we do have some interesting swag for those who donate to the MHS Movember team.

The first week of Movember has been a great success for the Mutually Human team. We've been hard at work raising money and growing sweet 'staches. Whiskers have been sprouting up everywhere, and so have team members. This week we welcome Samuel Bowles to the team!

A continuation of our last post, part 2/2 explores valid reasons for innovation and lists some of Roger Martin's communication tips for intuitive and analytical thinkers.

It’s that time of year again! A time where a man can put aside the social pressures of keeping his upper lip clean, and do what ever he wants to with his facial hair. And at the same time support a good cause. Today kicks off the beginning of Movember.

Earlier this month, the Mutually Human team took a field trip to the JW Marriott for Roger Martin’s talk on Design Thinking. These are some of our thoughts on Design Thinking and a closer look at "Abductive Logic"

After five years of leadership in the company, John Hwang, Co-Founder and CEO, is moving on from Mutually Human.

Customer development plays a crucial role on all levels of commerce, from fledging startups to multinational corporations. But if your business is brand new, customer development in those tender first months may mean the difference between sinking or swimming.

For those of you who missed GRWebDev last week, we have the full video presentations from each speaker. The topic of the meetup was "UX: Making Web Sites People Want to Use". Thank you to Kedron Rhodes, Joe Johnston, and Jason Swett for the great content.

With Ruby 1.9.3 nearing here's a casual look at some of the upcoming changes in 1.9.3rc1.

With Rails 3.1 Engines it is possible for the namespace to creep into the URL generation for your application layouts. This can occur if you are not using named routes, but instead are specifying :controller in an options Hash.

Victor, Mark, Sung, Chris, Ryan and Ray share their progress in their own words.

Recently we hit a limitation with Highcharts: it has no way of dynamically resizing itself or its parent container to ensure that you see the legend. This article will show you how to work through that issue.

Mocks have long been a source of question and confusion for a lot of people, myself included (see "Mocks? Really?"). Years ago I embarked on a journey to make sense of mocks and add them to my toolbox. I had almost entirely forgotten about this voyage when I was in Charlotte a few weeks ago eating lunch with Jim Van Fleet and Matt Overstreet and Jim asked, “When do you use mocks?” It started me thinking about the legendary tales of mocks.

Mutually Human's two-week Mobile App Challenge is approaching, and we've got some news to share.

User experience can go out of date. As part of an overall system, UX contains many "culturally contextual" analogies tailored to then current users and technologies. There are many examples: cd players to mp3 players, Mac OSX Tiger to Leopard, Facebook 2005 to Facebook 2011. Were these changes beneficial?

Last week, John Hwang was interviewed by Andy Johnston and Angela Brown for a Business Matters episode on Chamber Talk Radio AM 1340.

Automated testing is an important part of what we do at Mutually Human Software. Automated tests can reduce bugs and regressions, give us confidence that we can safely refactor, reduce manual testing, and can also result in cleaner, more maintainable software.