Tuesday 11 September 2018

Use GeoIP to Transform Boring Data Into a Better User Experience


People are visual creatures. They like to see pretty things (that go beyond cat videos). I’m not saying this likely or because I enjoy it! It’s a hard, cold fact. Couple it with an ever decreasing attention span and rest assured your application is judged by appearance (in the first 3 seconds) rather than by features or quality. If you’re a developer that can’t afford to pay for a custom GUI design for an app, this is especially devastating. No matter how good, fast or innovative your app is if it looks like it was “designed by a developer” people won’t even give it a chance. Thankfully there are ways around this problem. Using a tried and tested open-source admin template is undoubtedly a good start. Another less-known trick is to turn dull data such as IP addresses and browser user-agent identifier into much more interesting data that can not only provide more information to the user but make it fun and good-looking as well. Best thing is – it’s a free and straightforward feature to add to any app.
The standard, boring & ugly way
Instead of wasting time on theory and made up situations we’ll dive into a scenario familiar
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