Evan is an experienced and accredited solution designer and developer with over 19 years of software systems delivery experience. Passionate about delivering elegant experiences, Evan’s expertise lies designing and developing iOS and Android native Apps, mobile and responsive web sites, and cross-platform hybrid applications. Evan is a Professional Scrum Master and certified in User Experience (UX) by the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g).

Get to the points! How to create bullet points in a UILabel

April 4, 2018 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Your target audience likely consumes a lot of content on mobile devices, so naturally you want to provide tones of valuable detail in your app. It’s critical that you present that content in a way that user can easily read and digest it. Nielson Norman Group notes in their user experience research findings on comprehension […]

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For Relevant Push Notifications, Location is Key

April 3, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Personalized push notifications have been found to be more appealing than generic notifications that get sent to all users. In our MobilizeWorx Notification Model, we outline a number of factors to consider for users to find your push notifications meaningful. The user’s “context” – where the user is located, the proximity to points of interest, […]

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Getting Personal with Push Notifications using Amazon SNS

March 24, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

While research proves push notifications have a dramatic effect on an app’s ability to engage users, sending too many or irrelevant notifications can undermine your user retention, and lead users to uninstall your App. Appropriate targeting of notifications is key. A recent study found that the most desired type of push notifications are personalized ones. […]

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3-Steps to Building a Notification Pusher with Amazon SNS and Ruby

February 20, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Much research on push notification behaviour focuses on the potential for boosting user engagement. Increased engagement hinges on integration with back end company systems to initiate notification sending and provide notification message content. That integration can be hard: a recent Gartner report commented that integration is often the largest part of the effort of delivering […]

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Step-by-Step Guide to Setup iOS Push Notifications with Amazon SNS

February 14, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Recent research shows that while there are differences in user behaviour in response to notifications between iOS and Android platforms, user engagement can be dramatically increased on both platforms with the effective use of notifications. Your push notification solution needs to be cross platform. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fast, flexible notification […]

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Detect When iOS AVPlayer Finishes Buffering Using Swift

February 9, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

This is based on the article “Detect when audio playback begins with AVPlayer in iOS” we published back in 2014. Plenty has changed in the iOS SDK since then, but the general technique here still applies. We’ve updated the code to use Swift 3, and added a sample Xcode project you can download. In the Call of […]

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10 Must-Have Measures For Push Notifications

February 6, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Research proves push notifications have a dramatic effect on an app’s ability to engage users. Ensuring the success of an ongoing notification strategy requires insight into the reliability and usefulness of your push notification solution. Push notification solutions can vary in technical implementation, but the process typically involves these steps: Some event within a company system […]

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