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The 5 Ds of successful app building

To create applications that people actually want to use, forward-thinking teams are leveraging the principles of design thinking along with product management best practices. The most successful follow the five Ds of app building. Let’s go through all of them now.

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Push past Lightning’s limits with Skuid

Skuid, however, offers an appealing alternative for companies that want to move faster, cut costs, and create more user-friendly applications. Below, we’ll go through some of Lightning’s major limitations, then discuss how Skuid can help teams bypass these hurdles (and those that come with custom coding) with a low-code/no-code platform.

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Why your ATS should include an AI-powered resume parser

For companies, this means losing out on highly qualified talent and struggling to fill key positions. It can even lead to less-than-favorable impressions of a brand as an employer. However, organizations can significantly reduce friction in the application process and by extension, candidate drop off by using a resume parser. In this post, we’ll discuss the basics and benefits of these tools, then talk a little bit about how Skuid’s AI-driven resume parser can work within an ATS to streamline the application process.

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Skuid in 2023: Our year in review

2023 was an exciting year for Skuid, marked by new releases, improved capabilities, feature enhancements, and additional Skuid Skool courses. Over the past 12 months, we at Skuid have made significant upgrades to our platform, making it easier for our builders to create streamlined and intuitive digital experiences.

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How Skuid enhances and extends Salesforce Lightning

In this post, we’ll go through some situations when combining Skuid with Lightning makes sense and how Skuid can extend Lightning’s out-of-the-box capabilities to create more functional and user-friendly Salesforce applications.

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Using prompt engineering to enhance UX

With prompt engineering, however, Skuid builders can tailor our platform’s AI capabilities to produce a more intuitive UX that guides users programmatically — no active user input necessary. In this, we’ll share some of the UX advantages of prompt engineering over open-ended chatbots, as well as several potential use cases. We’ll also go through examples of how to actually leverage prompt engineering in Skuid.

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Adapt to the unexpected with Skuid

Unfortunately, these changes show no sign of slowing down, which means companies and teams must be ready to adapt. And that means their tools need to be adaptable as well. That’s where Skuid comes in.

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5 Ways to Build a Progress Indicator in Skuid

Skuid makes it easy to create a progress indicator that compliments your form’s user experience. With our Design System Studio (DSS), you can choose from different shapes, sizes, and variants to fit your design needs — no custom code required.

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Push past Lightning’s limits with Skuid

Skuid, however, offers an appealing alternative for companies that want to move faster, cut costs, and create more user-friendly applications. Below, we’ll go through some of Lightning’s major limitations, then discuss how Skuid can help teams bypass these hurdles (and those that come with custom coding) with a low-code/no-code platform.

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Take your data to the next level with custom aggregation formulas

Skuid allows you to do a lot of things without code. But sometimes, adding just that little bit of code can take your application from good to great. It can be that magical “missing piece” that fills any design or data gaps and makes the user experience just a little more seamless.

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U.S. Department of the Air Force builds mobile-friendly, hire-to-retire portal using Skuid

With Skuid, the U.S. Department of the Air Force met sophisticated app requirements without compromise.

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How Skuid supports Salesforce development processes for organizations large and small

Companies large, small, and in between use Skuid to support their Salesforce development processes. Learn how.

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Global technology provider builds partner portal with Skuid, integrating acquired partner ecosystem

A global organization needed to modernize its partner experience to better engage partners. Learn how it's happening with Skuid.

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How to extend HubSpot CRM capabilities using Skuid

Do you need custom HubSpot landing pages, forms, surveys or forms that are on-brand and easy to complete? Skuid can help.

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Best practices for managing partner pipeline: optimizing the partner experience

The more seamless you make the partner experience, the faster you’ll grow your program and generate revenue. 

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The 5 Ds of successful app building

To create applications that people actually want to use, forward-thinking teams are leveraging the principles of design thinking along with product management best practices. The most successful follow the five Ds of app building. Let’s go through all of them now.

Read

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How Skuid enhances and extends Salesforce Lightning

In this post, we’ll go through some situations when combining Skuid with Lightning makes sense and how Skuid can extend Lightning’s out-of-the-box capabilities to create more functional and user-friendly Salesforce applications.

Read

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Using prompt engineering to enhance UX

With prompt engineering, however, Skuid builders can tailor our platform’s AI capabilities to produce a more intuitive UX that guides users programmatically — no active user input necessary. In this, we’ll share some of the UX advantages of prompt engineering over open-ended chatbots, as well as several potential use cases. We’ll also go through examples of how to actually leverage prompt engineering in Skuid.

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Adapt to the unexpected with Skuid

Unfortunately, these changes show no sign of slowing down, which means companies and teams must be ready to adapt. And that means their tools need to be adaptable as well. That’s where Skuid comes in.

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5 Ways to Build a Progress Indicator in Skuid

Skuid makes it easy to create a progress indicator that compliments your form’s user experience. With our Design System Studio (DSS), you can choose from different shapes, sizes, and variants to fit your design needs — no custom code required.

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ChatPDF: a practical use case for Skuid + AI

The leaders at your company are having strategic conversations about AI and the future shape of digital work. But how do you get from a strategic conversation to an actual use case? By asking how AI can improve user’s daily lives, right now.

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The 4Gs of Generative AI

Generative AI tools can automate complex tasks, predict outcomes based on data inputs, and create original, insightful content. In addition to streamlining operations, generative AI has the power to offer unparalleled value and growth to your customers.

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The OX Episode 2: How PubSec is Unlocking Employee Experience

For episode two, we turn to the public sector and how it’s leading the way in building great employee experiences. Host Matt Brown, Skuid’s Senior Manager of Product Marketing, is joined by Ashleigh Holt, Senior Customer Success Manager, and Evan Roth, Public Sector Account Executive. Ashleigh has worked in the DoD and intelligence space for most of her career, and Evan is a former Air Force pilot who made his own shift to the private sector. Their topic, “Unlocking Employee Experience: What the private sector can learn from PubSec,” generated an awesome discussion and key takeaways for organizations in either category. 

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Why your ATS should include an AI-powered resume parser

For companies, this means losing out on highly qualified talent and struggling to fill key positions. It can even lead to less-than-favorable impressions of a brand as an employer. However, organizations can significantly reduce friction in the application process and by extension, candidate drop off by using a resume parser. In this post, we’ll discuss the basics and benefits of these tools, then talk a little bit about how Skuid’s AI-driven resume parser can work within an ATS to streamline the application process.

Read

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Skuid in 2023: Our year in review

2023 was an exciting year for Skuid, marked by new releases, improved capabilities, feature enhancements, and additional Skuid Skool courses. Over the past 12 months, we at Skuid have made significant upgrades to our platform, making it easier for our builders to create streamlined and intuitive digital experiences.

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Why Honeycode users should switch to Skuid

So, what can we learn here, and what's next for Honeycode users? In this post, we’ll go through the good and the bad of Honeycode and why Skuid is a great alternative for former Honeycode users.

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The Skuid Certified - Builder Certification Program

In August 2023, we launched the Skuid Certified - Builder Program. If you’re considering pursuing this certification, you probably have questions. What does it mean to be a Skuid Certified Builder? How can this kind of certification enhance your career? How exactly do I go about getting certified? In this post, we’ll answer all of your burning Skuid certification questions, from the general to the specific. Let’s jump in.

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Building pixel-perfect Experience Cloud portals with Skuid

Whether you call it a portal, support community, or something else, a Salesforce Experience Cloud site can be an essential part of your customer, partner, and/or employee relationships. These sites allow you to create branded digital experiences for sharing information, providing enablement materials, explaining processes, or collaborating with the people who play an important part in what your organization does.

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OpenAI Integration with Skuid

We’ve all heard the hype around AI, so we won’t add to it here. In a nutshell, powerful new AI and machine learning capabilities are raising interesting prospects around automation and efficiency. As a result, all the major technology players are integrating this technology into their products.

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Dubai to Edinburgh: SFX release recap

In our Dubai to Edinburgh: SFX release highlights webinar, Matt Brown and Rob Hatch showcased the highlights of the Edinburgh and Dubai releases in Skuid SFX — our deployment in Salesforce as a managed package. These releases include several new features and improvements that enable users to easily build customized and scalable applications. Let’s look at the key highlights of these releases.

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How to achieve recurring revenue success: delivering impact to customers with SPICED

Learn how the SPICED app, built by Skuid and based on a Winning by Design framework, will help you achieve recurring revenue success.

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Skuid welcomes InFlight 

Together, Skuid and InFlight offer the most complete solution for enterprises seeking to optimize people operations and employee experience.

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How to build connections in the Salesforce ecosystem

You don't need to go it alone in the Salesforce ecosystem. A Salesforce MVP shares how he built a network.

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How Salesforce admins can make the most of community events

Hear a Salesforce MVP's take on why community events are valuable for admins and how to make the most of them.

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The importance of crafting a sticky culture

Skuid has crafted an environment that brings everyone to the table. Join us!

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An admin month to remember.

Here’s a recap of some highlights from Salesforce admin appreciation month 2021.

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How Skuid users tackle app-building challenges with the Skuid Community

Learn how four Skuid builders got the help they needed via the Skuid Community.

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Why we upgraded the Skuid Community platform and what it means for you

Learn about the improved experience and what you can expect going forward.

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