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Complex systems integration is crucial while building your own pre-order solution. We’ve put together some valuable insights from our own experience in developing mobile meal pre-order for Burger King.

Learn how YND proved to provide the perfect partnership for one of the most famous fast-food brands in the world.

Know Your Customer (KYC) and screening are crucial steps while building your e-wallet solution. We’ve put together some valuable insights from our own experience in building e-wallets.

Web Summit gathers tech companies, startups and policymakers to ask a simple question: Where to next? Here are our top 5 tech-focused answers from Web Summit 2020...

Learn how to address inconsistencies, overcome challenges and combat design debt through effective Design QA.

Discover some of the interesting, smaller-scale tweaks that are having large (and even a little unexpected) impacts on revenues across sectors.

Getting it right from the start: key points to consider before you develop your own fintech app, from local laws and data protection to common pitfalls and user verification requirements.

Take a look at what's new in the world of fintech, from embdedded lending for SMEs with Banxware to orderbrid, the small business heroes.

There were some superb talks on innovation, AI, diversity, digital transormation, and more at DMEXCO 2020. Check out YND's top 3 highlights from the conference.

What you need to know about MVP development: how a minimum viable product (MVP) can help you validate promising ideas and boost your business. Plus: key advantages, success measures, technical considerations and differences to full product releases.

After years of working together, we finally found time for a proper sit-down with Jannis Riesz, VP at Wirecard Labs, to recap our longstanding collaboration. Join us for an in-depth chat on what goes on behind-the-scenes at Wirecard Labs.

Validation is one of the most critical milestones in the lifecycle of a new product concept. At YND we are often using Landing Page Validation to validate such product concepts. Find out how we implement the simple but powerful validation method.

Annoyed by shopping? What if you could just walk in, take what you need and simply walk away? Inspired by Amazon Go, Wirecard and YND reimagined the shopping experience. With the Butik we created an “invisible” biometric checkout experience. Xmax

A simplified AI/ML embedded processing stack using the NVIDIA TX2 and Swift. This powerful package is ideal for balancing processing power, portability and development speed in live video processing in our object/face detection and DNN analysis.

With our venture CleanAI we took part in the Mercedes-Benz hackathon Hack.IAA 2019 in Frankfurt and long story short: 24 hours of being awake, lots of coffee & hacking later we took home the main prize: a Mercedes A-class.

Our trip report to DeepLearn 2019 in Warsaw. The Deeplearn conference in Warsaw is a 5-day Summer School revolving around the topic of Deep Learning. Our highlights: progress on Generative Models, generalization methods in DNN, attacks on ML APIs.

Financial apps definitely require an eye for detail. Having worked in the Fintech industry for a long time, we’ve learned all about the issues designers face. We put together practical tips to keep in mind when designing great Fintech apps.

An immersive user experience is as much of a competitive advantage as the technological aspects of Fintech apps. Here are the 9 most common challenges you have to be aware of during the design of an outstanding Fintech app.

At YND we are testing many frameworks and build PoCs for internal evaluation; recently we started to use the PyTorch framework instead of TensorFlow. This article compares both based on different aspects from a developers perspective.

Our trip report to DLD19 in Munich and this year's hot topic: the potenital of AI. Together with Wirecard we are showcasing Biometric Payments with our SmartBar which enables customers to securely & seamlessly pay for and collect their orders.

Our latest venture CleanAI is an AI-powered solution to detect interior issues in shared cars.The team’s work on CleanAI was recently recognised by reaching the finals of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Innovation Challenge 2018.

React Native allows to build native apps using Javascript, to power iOS and Android applications from a single codebase, and to reuse large chunks of that code for the web. As a designer it’s worth learning about all the possibilities and constraints.

We developed a standard-size fitness band with the maximum amount of sensors and electronics we could fit in, combined with a high-level development framework (an OS) to access the components and quickly develop functional solutions.

The potential for using face recognition for authentication is much bigger than just unlocking a phone! In the future we might sign contracts just by showing our facial features. One way to deceive a face recognition mechanism, is a face spoof attack.

We designed & developed a proof-of-concept Daydream app for KAYAK that enables users to “sample” destinations before deciding on the next trip. Users are able to tour stunning locations in 360, listen to audio guides and read contextual travel tips.

Working on complex and scalable products in Fintech also means we need to get things up and running quickly; our latest Swiss-army toolkit is a production-ready template for an Elixir Phoenix server, coming with loads of integrations out of the box.

In 2017 the automotive industry has been vividly disrupted by electrical engines and alternative fuels. While at the same time cars gain self-driving capabilities and deep environment awareness — thanks to computer vision and Machine Learning.

Wouldn’t it be cool to just be able to walk over to a bar and not have to fight for attention to get your drink? With SmartBar, we’re quenching your thirst the smart way. Our latest project with Wirecard combines two things: beer and machine learning.