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The Tragedy of Comic Sans

The Tragedy of Comic Sans

In what may be the definitive final argument in the Comic Sans wars (those of you who attended my FileMaker DevCon session know what I’m on about), Pixartprinting via Sara Boboltz of Huffington Post have given us an infographic that shows the true economic and...
ROI: Raising Your Company Profile

ROI: Raising Your Company Profile

Adopting a new software system for your company is a major undertaking, so you want to maximize your return on investment. In part two of our ROI series, we discuss one of the best ways to do that: bragging.? A significant benefit of improving your company’s...
The Purpose of Icons

The Purpose of Icons

Key Takeaways Icons guide interaction and reduce cognitive load: The primary purpose of icons is to visually communicate actions, options, or statuses faster than text—helping users engage with software more intuitively and efficiently. Solid vs. outline icons...
Dead Man’s Curve

Dead Man’s Curve

Learn how to avoid a common mistake growing businesses often make. Dead Man’s Curve, it’s no place to play Dead Man’s Curve, you best keep away Dead Man’s Curve, I can hear ’em say Won’t come back from Dead Man’s Curve Jan and...
Bob Shockey to Speak at DevCon 2014

Bob Shockey to Speak at DevCon 2014

Alchemy Consulting Group founder and CEO Bob Shockey will once again speak at the FileMaker Developer Conference. This year, Bob will start with a discussion of ?real-world type design in FileMaker Pro and Go, including some typography basic information and an...

Why You Should Use FileMaker Pro

These days, the voluminous amount of data we collect in the course of conducting business transactions requires us to find an efficient way to manage it. There are already big names in the database management software niche, like SQL Server, Microsoft Access and...