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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…

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How a ‘Bucket of Hours’ Can Benefit Your Software Product Maintenance Plan

Why are we talking about software product maintenance plans? Maybe you just launched your latest killer app. Or maybe you have legacy software that it hasn’t stood the test of time. Wherever you are on the spectrum of very old to very new software, you would benefit from having a software product maintenance plan. Software […]

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The Building Blocks of Design Hierarchy

Creating beautiful, well-laid-out screens may seem like design magic, but you don’t have to be a designer to know how to structure your content well. With just a few key fundamentals of hierarchy, you can drastically improve both the visual appeal and usability of your designs. What is hierarchy and why is it important? According […]

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10 Figma Shortcuts to Improve Your UI Design Proficiencies

Though most shortcuts in work are ill-advised or perceived as lazy, some have proven otherwise. As Figma has exploded in use amongst many in the design field these last few years, almost all SEP’s designers have adopted this tool in their own unique way. Like artists, designers have their own approach to the pieces they […]

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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Integration Testing in Flutter

Integration testing in Flutter is fairly well documented. The official docs have a get-started guide that will get you started, and it’s not hard to find answers to common issues on blogs or Stack Overflow. This isn’t going to be a walkthrough of setting up testing Flutter as the docs do a good job of […]

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Your App Uses Xamarin.Forms, but That Tech is Going Away. Don’t Panic! 😱

You may be hearing a lot of chatter about Xamarin.Forms going away. If your app is built in Xamarin.Forms, this is probably concerning news to hear. Our advice? Don’t panic! 😱 We recently sat down with Adam Livingston, Staff Software Engineer, and Charles Tippett, Engagement Manager, to get the scoop on the upcoming transition from […]

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2023 Winter Hackathon Recap + 3 Reasons We ♥ Hackathons at SEP

SEP’s bi-annual hackathon was a full weekend of fun projects and exciting learnings. Read on to learn more about the importance of hackathons to SEP’s culture and for a recap of what projects we tackled during our Winter 2023 Hackathon session. Three Reasons We ❤ Hackathons at SEP Besides the obvious things like the fact […]

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How We Boosted Project Success with Continuous Delivery Before Launch

At one of my first projects at SEP, my team was tasked with building an application sitting on custom hardware that was still under development. We had third-party substitute hardware to use as our team built out the frontend, but there wasn’t a lot to go around. The team recognized the value of getting our […]

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Photography 101

I might be the Marketing Graphic Designer at SEP, but I do MUCH more than just design. Part of my role at SEP is to help visually show our brand. One of the ways we do that is through photography! While most companies stick with stock photos, we love to show you the faces of […]

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Transferable & Soft Skills: The Unjustly Unsung Heroes of Software Development

“If you don’t figure out what you want to do for a career, you will fall behind in life.” I can remember hearing this loaded statement as early as 8th grade. Which, looking back on it, is about the equivalent of attempting to teach a dog new tricks as a squirrel scampers about in its […]

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