by jim@xforms.co | Aug 4, 2023 | Educational
Classic Scenario: Boss asks you… “Research the best mobile form tools, pick the best one, and start a pilot” So you do what anyone else would do: ask Google. You’d look through a bunch of websites, take down notes, and probably put together a...
by jim@xforms.co | May 24, 2023 | Educational
Focus on simple When software developers and application admins start building forms for use by their field crews, they tend to build elaborate forms with a lot of fields and options. Their thinking is “we need to have the field teams capture everything they can...
by jim@xforms.co | May 21, 2023 | Educational
No field tech wants to live in an app None. Zip. Zilch. Ninguno. They just want to get their work done. If your app can speed things up for them, then they will give it a shot and try it. But if your app slows them down, you will face an uphill battle with field...
by jim@xforms.co | May 19, 2023 | Educational
Inertia = do nothing According to the OxfordLanguages dictionary, Inertia is defined as Definition: A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. Example: “the problem runs deeper than bureaucratic inertia” What does this have to do with mobile form...
by jim@xforms.co | May 17, 2023 | Educational
Short answer: truth. I”ll explain why, with a less-text-is-more approach 🙂 Technical field personnel that work on a daily basis outside—on a jobsite—are busy as shit. This is fact, plan and simple. I mean, have you ever seen a construction worker sitting on...
by jim@xforms.co | May 11, 2023 | Educational
Been talking about this since before the turn of the century…literally People that know me know that I’ve been talking about using portable devices to capture fieldwork data since the days of the Palm Pilot and the Handspring Visor. Waaay back in 1998,...
