Forward-Thinking Meets Fast-Casual: How Apps and Digital Experiences are Feeding the Hangry

You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Hangry In a world that feels like it’s in a constant state of flux, people want — nay, they demand — their creature comforts. Consumers were already beginning to discover new ways to get their food, with online ordering rising at a fervent pace by late 2019. “Way back then,” you may...

Sep 2020

12 Steps to Mastering iOS Push Notifications

iOS has a number of features around push notifications, but it can be difficult to know what to use for your specific app. While good documentation exists for each individual feature, trying to get a handle on everything that is available and useful can be overwhelming. Consider each of these features and how they might fit into your app. Note: This...

Jul 2020

Simplifying In-App Subscriptions: David Barnard from RevenueCat

In-app subscriptions are the lifeblood of most modern apps, supporting the development of large-scale products and businesses. But the implementation of these purchases are often complex, time-consuming, resource-intensive, and mired by bugs and lack of support. Ken...

Jul 2020

Becoming Nimble in Retail with Digital

What have we gotten ourselves into? How about the 2020s so far, huh? Usually the transition into a new decade is more gradient, less ultimatum. But, this is the world we live in now (fingers crossed 2021 doesn’t ask us to “hold my beer”). In the ebook Becoming Nimble in Retail with Digital, a group of thought leaders...

Jun 2020

Becoming Nimble in Retail with Digital

What have we gotten ourselves into? How about the 2020s so far, huh? Usually the transition into a new decade is more gradient, less ultimatum. But, this is the world we live in now (fingers crossed 2021 doesn’t ask us to “hold my beer”). In the ebook Becoming Nimble in Retail with Digital, a group of thought leaders...

Jun 2020

How Grocery Stores Can Become More Nimble Digitally

The grocery industry is reinventing itself to meet rapidly changing shopping habits during these trying times. Among the changes, grocers are adopting apps and a multi-channel approach to enable expedited delivery and pickup services for their shoppers. Apps play a critical role in these new multi-channel approaches. Just in the last number of years,...

Apr 2020

Why Digital Agencies Should Create Their Own Products

Savvy recently launched MyGIFValentine, a project we conceived, designed, built, and marketed within a week. Yet it wasn't something we were hired to do. We were our only customer. Here's the story of how we did it but more importantly, why we did it. Overview of MyGIFValentine...

Feb 2020

Setting Up Your Digital Product For Success in the Long Term

At Savvy, we’ve built countless apps and other digital products for customers since 2009. From the Fortune 500 to disruptive technology companies, we’ve seen the problems we’ll identify in this article affect even the most well-thought-out and researched projects. In order to avoid these issues, you need to know these kinds of problems upfront, create...

Nov 2019

What is Digital Transformation (and Why Should Your Company Care)?

Digital transformation—sometimes synonymous with digital innovation—has often been defined over the last few years with little to show for it. We know because at Savvy, we've been in the trenches with companies helping them through their digital transformations. We continually have course-corrected digital transformations gone wrong while re-educating...

Oct 2019

Create a Better Product With Design Collaboration — Mindset, Tools, Process

Digital products are more complex today than ever before. Creating them requires multiple team members, each with their own set of skills and expertise. At Savvy, for example, our customers work closely with: a product manager, UX designer, visual designer, developer(s), content strategist, and a growth specialist. We use design collaboration to handle...

Jul 2019