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🚀 Top 5 Ways Custom Software Solutions Can Accelerate Your Business Growth in 2025

In a world where digital transformation isn’t just a trend but a necessity, custom software development has emerged as a strategic advantage for businesses. Off-the-shelf tools can only take you so far — but tailored solutions adapt to your exact workflow, scale with your operations, and unlock competitive growth.

At FixPartner.co, we specialize in delivering smart, scalable software that drives results. Here are the top 5 ways custom solutions are transforming businesses in 2025.

🔧 1. Streamlining Operations

Custom software eliminates unnecessary steps in your workflows. It automates routine tasks, reduces manual errors, and saves countless hours in admin and operations.

📌 Example: A logistics company saved 30% in fuel costs after implementing route optimization software built just for them.

📈 2. Improving Customer Experience

Custom platforms allow for personalized user journeys, faster support, and better service delivery. This leads to higher satisfaction, retention, and referrals.

🎯 With tailored CRM or client portals, businesses can deeply understand user behavior and respond in real-time.

📊 3. Enabling Smarter Decision-Making

Integrate analytics dashboards or AI-powered insights into your custom solution. You’ll get better visibility into KPIs and can act faster than competitors relying on spreadsheets.

💡 Real-time reporting = real-time growth decisions.

🤖 4. Scaling Without Breaking Things

Unlike generic software, custom apps grow with you. Whether you’re onboarding more users, adding features, or entering new markets — the software supports it, not limits it.

💥 5. Giving You a Competitive Edge

You’re not bound by one-size-fits-all limitations. You innovate faster, react to market shifts sooner, and deliver features customers can’t find elsewhere.

⚙️ Why FixPartner?

We help startups and enterprises worldwide build scalable, secure, and growth-driven custom software. From mobile apps to workflow automation, FixPartner.co is your trusted outsourcing ally.

📌 Ready to Build Smarter?

Let us help you build software that accelerates your goals. 👉 Learn more at: https://fixpartner.co

[objecteiespai]

Kintsugi,

https://esthertraugot.com/artwork/4467012-Crableg-detail-two-claws.html

Hashtags relacionats #kintsugiart #kintsukuroi #wabisabi

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/kintsugi/

en relació 

La columna vertebral , ciutat de Goteborg. Un obelisc de quatre metres d'alçada anomenat The Spine instal·lat a l'exterior de l'escola Kviberg.http://hildahellstrom.se/#

https://objecteiespai.tumblr.com/search/hilda+hellstrom

https://www.dezeen.com/tag/bones/

https://www.pinterest.es/dezeen/scary-design/

https://www.designboom.com/search-result/?q=bones

http://www.oobject.com/category/15-vintage-prosthetic-limbs/

disseny conscient i l'accessibilitat.

...Com pot el disseny mediar entre nosaltres i les nostres capacitats?

En aquestes jornades intentarem oferir una mirada propositiva al voltant de la diversitat funcional. Tots, en algun moment, sigui per malaltia, edat, accident o simplement per haver-nos trencat una cama no respondrem al cos normatiu. Normalment les pròtesis externes ens ajuden a obtenir unes capacitats retallades. En realitat tots utilitzem pròtesis, de les ulleres a la roba, del llenguatge als mòbils, estem envoltats d'eines que augmenten les nostres capacitats...

Raúl Goñi. Disseny atent

Manu González. Superpròtesis, enginyeria biònica en el món del còmic

Javier Aragón. Moda amb sensibilitat social

El cos normatiu, el cos alterat i els humans com a cíborgs CONFERÈNCIES:                                                                          Fernando Broncano. Cossos independents en espais de dependència      Paloma G. Díaz. Destapa el control

Mirades a la diversitat                                                                                Kelly Arrontes. Ceguesa. Quan l'ART flueix com l'aigua .                            Xavier Duacastilla. La ciutat des de l'activisme divers                        Eugenio Vega. Diversitat funcional, disseny i educació                                Carla Habif Hassid Bozzo. L'accessibilitat com a premissa de projecte en l'arquitectura del segle XXI

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museudeldisseny/ca/activitat/3es-jornades-disseny-viure-diversitat-funcional-protesis-i-ciborgs

https://objecteiespai.tumblr.com/post/616298134863233024/objecteiespai-massana-art-and-design-school

https://www.nuvol.com/noticies/dissenyar-per-a-la-condcio-vulnerable/

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb8tvCnSVqm6zwZeKBoeQOg/videos

DISSENY D'EMERGÈNCIA

Design for all

Social

Disseny per viure. 99 projectes per al món real

PROJECTE COLOUR CODE FOR BLIND USER-FIXPERTS 22.11.18 12.00h

Museu del Disseny Fixperts: Natalia Boned   Clara Masia Núria Gómez

Fixpartner: Guillermo Fernández The Fixpert team from Escola Massana, Spain, came up with a simple and brilliant tactile solution to enable Guillermo, who has been blind since childhood, identify his items of clothing – including the colour – which further increases his sense of independence, particularly whilst travelling alone.  

premi internacional Helen Hamlyn RCA.UK

En el marc de les III Jornades "Disseny per Viure", organitzades pel Museu del Disseny i comissariades per l'Oscar Guayabero es presentarà el projecte Colour Code for Blind user-FIXPERTS, realitzat a l’assignatura Taller Objecte i Espai de 4t de Grau en Arts i Disseny i que va ser guanyador de premi internacional Helen Hamlyn. min. 56.30

[loowy]

Fixperts - Hex-a-grip for Elisabeth from Louis Eager on Vimeo.

Fixperts is a learning platform that challenges designers to use their imagination and skills to create solutions to everyday problems for a real person. This project involved prototyping, collaboration and film making.

Elizabeth has arthritis in her hands which makes it hard to open bottles and jam jars. After working closely with her, our fixperts team have designed the Hex-a-Grip, made from silicone; a tool to help her with her difficulty.

Fixpartner: Elizabeth Fixperts: Madison Bates, Emma Appleton, Mona Jia, Louis Eager

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FIXPERTS

Such is the premise of Fixperts, a scheme created by Daniel Charny and James Carrigan, which connects designers with those who need help with a problem, from disabled people to the elderly. The process of approaching the problem and finding its solution is filmed and uploaded to the site, where success stories rank in their hundreds. Watch the FixFilms and see the Fixperts at work, finding solutions to all sorts of problems from Edna's new sock horn and Harold's new seat to a fix for the Paramedic cyclists and one handed bottle opener! 

Daniel and James are always looking to recruit designers to fix, or film-makers to document the fixing, and would welcome applications from both fields; similarly, FixPartners hoping to overcome a problem should visit the site for more information. 

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Warm Smiles: A FixPartner’s Perspective - Jade de Robles Rossdale

Image of FixPartner, Victoria, from Jade de Robles Rossdale's FixFilm.

As a Fixpert, me and my Fixcolleagues, Samuel, Adria and Teresa, found getting the FixPartner to collaborate the trickiest part of all. We set out to help Victoria, a 70-year-old Catalan woman selling bird food in Barcelona’s central square. Victoria runs a little stall selling bird food, and when she is selling the food, the pigeons fly onto the trolley and pick at it, meaning she has to be on hand to shoo them away.  Not only this, but she also fills the bags which she sells using just with her hands. When we spoke to her at the beginning, she didn’t want to hear any of it. She probably saw us as a threat - four young people trying to implement changes to something that she has been doing for over 30 years. This was understandable - yet unbeknown to her we were only there to help. Victoria did agree to take part in principle but, as the project progressed we tried to talk her, she would not give in; at one point, just 3 weeks before the end, she even insisted that we changed the project.

Still from Jade de Robles Rossdale's FixFilm of the final prototype.

We had to keep trying, and so two of the group went and attempted to convince her one last time. They spoke to her for half an hour, making her feel comfortable by listening to her stories about her experiences of the war, and telling us about her husband and her children. At the end they showed her the final prototype, and with a very warm smile tried to make her see that we weren’t there to change her ways, but to help her do them even better. Victoria loved it - the final video shows her face light up like in all the other Fixpert videos, a happy FixPartner.

Still from Jade de Robles Rossdale's FixFilm of Victoria and the final prototype.

I’m sure we are not the only group that this has happened to, and as a Fixpert, it was an experience in itself getting the FixPartner to collaborate. Nowadays we don’t really believe that someone would help out without asking for anything in return but that is the beauty of Fixperts, making and solving little areas of someone’s life without receiving anything material in return from the FixPartner. Victoria may have been a tough FixPartner but she was a very rewarding one, proving what a big and warm smile can do – and making us realise the importance of sensitivity to those we fix with.

Jade de Robles Rossdale is a 20 year old student from Barcelona studying design at Elisava, School of design and Engeneering, and has just finished her second year. Jade is half spanish and half english, having lived most of her life in London, she is now studying in Barcelona and combines the two cultures in her work as a designer.   Jade recently participated in a Fixperts project at Elisava, organised by Diego Ramos��of Diego Ramos Studio and Marc Ligos. More about the project will appear on both the Fixperts blog and website shortly.

[objecteiespai]

Massana Art and Design school students create innovative solutions in collaboration with people with serious day to day challenges. 

The world needs more people who can solve problems. Fixperts is a learning programme that unlocks people 's imagination and skills to get the world fixing problems, small and big. Veure més projects on the Youtube channel Fixperts (Fixperts Central) and free resources for universities and schools on www.fixing.education

Fixperts és un programa d'aprenentatge que desafia als joves a utilitzar la seva imaginació i habilitats per crear solucions enginyoses als problemes quotidians d'una persona real. En el procés, desenvolupen una sèrie d’habilitats transferibles valuoses, des del prototipat fins a la col·laboració.

fixing.education/fixperts

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX1Cr1fobwAUCw6P1qZik9g/videos

FIXPERTS, és una plataforma que connecta lxs dissenyadorxs amb les persones per desenvolupar projectes que aportin solucions útils i directes, mostrant els valors creatius i socials del disseny.

Fixperts tracta de connectar a dissenyadorxs amb gent que necessita una mica d'ajuda en les seves vides per desenvolupar projectes junts que ofereixin solucions útils a problemes reals.

Un espai obert a creadors provinents de qualsevol disciplina, que ajuden a resoldre les petites dificultats que es poden trobar les persones en el seu dia a dia aplicant la metodologia del disseny.Aquesta iniciativa planteja solucions intel·ligents a problemes reals, que es concreten en objectes o sistemes funcionals amb un cost reduït. 

Els resultats són recollits en una peça documental que mostra el procés d’anàlisi i creatiu, l’experiència entre el dissenyador i l’usuari i la solució realitzada.Formar part d’aquest projecte implica:Explorar el nostre entorn més immediat.Aprendre a escoltar, comprendre i analitzar les necessitats dels altres.Crear un diàleg directe amb l’usuari final de l’objecte o solució.Desenvolupar una solució mitjançant un procés de disseny exhaustiu.Treballar en equip davant problemes reals.Desenvolupar un prototip final i totalment funcional.El fer és un tipus de pensament aplicat i un dels recursos més preuats de la humanitat. No obstant això, tot i que la majoria de gent té la capacitat de fer coses, la majoria no les fa. Aquest és un dels llegats més dramàtics de la revolució industrial.

 Fixperts és un projecte creatiu i social que promou l'habilitat d'arreglar com una manera de tornar a introduir en les nostres vides la capacitat de fer.

 Cofundat per James Carrigan i Daniel Charny, Fixperts tracta de connectar a dissenyadors amb gent que necessita una mica d'ajuda en les seves vides per desenvolupar projectes junts que ofereixin solucions útils a problemes reals. Marc Ligos i Diego Ramos han portat la idea de Fixperts a Barcelona,

http://fad.cat/congres/old/2013/es/?p=931

http://fixperts.org/about/http://fixperts.org/fixfilms/

Fixperts: Fixing is a way of Thinking

http://makezine.com/.../fixperts-fixing-is-a-way-of.../“

Fixperts” se dedica a solucionar los problemas del día a día. Es un proyecto social llevado a cabo junto con “fixpartners”, “fixperts” y “Fixfilmmakers”. “Fixpartners”: personas que quieren superar un reto. En este caso, la protagonista es Denise, que lleva pendientes desde que tenía 16 años. Debido a la EM no es capaz de ponerse los cierres de los pendientes sin la ayuda de alguien; la EM le ha afectado a la movilidad de sus manos, le provoca que las tenga dormidas y débiles. También le afecta a su visión. Denise es una persona segura de sí misma, una mujer independiente que vive de forma autónoma y usa pequeños utensilios para afrontar sus retos diarios, como puede ser el abrocharse los botones de la camisa. Pero si quiere ponerse pendientes, necesita ayuda. “Fixpert” en esta historia es Florie Salnot. Son diseñadores o realizadores que usan su imaginación, talento y habilidades para resolver un problema. Florie, que lleva unos bonitos pendientes de perlas, le pidió a Denise que le mostrara sus dificultades para ponerse los pendientes. Observa detenidamente cuando Denise le muestra que es capaz de ponerse los pendientes; pero Denise le explica que “poner el cierre, es una auténtica pesadilla” - See more at: http://perforaciondeoreja.es/los-pendientes-pueden.../...

https://vimeo.com/59580609

http://perforaciondeoreja.es/los-pendientes-pueden.../

en relació:

http://www.curroclaret.com/es/compartir_carrito.html

Els ‘makers’ i ‘fabbers’ es reivindiquen a Barcelona

La fabricació digital, el ‘do it yourself’ i el moviment ‘maker’ arrelen

http://www.ara.cat/.../makers-fabbers-reivindiquen...

Què és el disseny obert?

Un disseny que promou l’aplicació de principis sorgits a partir del moviment de programari lliure i de codi obert. Parteix de la idea que la creativitat i la societat en general es beneficien de les vies de comunicació obertes i de la transmissió lliure d’informació. Per això, el disseny obert busca compartir els processos de creació, distribució i fabricació d’objectes, idees o sistemes, perquè altres puguin usar-los per adaptar, re-formular, produir o distribuir aquests dissenys o contingut segons les seves necessitats.Per què creativitat compartida?La cultura del disseny obert està marcant molt ràpidament un canvi de paradigma en les indústries creatives i fa possible una economia col·laborativa d’un potencial enorme tant per a dissenyadors i creadors com per a usuaris i consumidors. És una àrea en plena efervescència que genera nous models de negoci, processos creatius innovadors i pràctiques de consum participatives.

Quin futur té la cultura del disseny obert?

Aquest nou paradigma comporta la promesa d’un impacte social positiu i sostenible, la creació de nous models d’intercanvi, la deslocalització i re-localització de la producció i la renovació dels processos de consum.D’aquests plantejaments alternatius sorgeixen, sobre la base de comunitats reals unides per la virtualitat de les xarxes socials, projectes amb llicències Creative Commons, processos de cocreació, productes de distribució global però de fabricació local i finançament col·lectiu i instàncies de consum col·laboratiu que rescaten del passat processos econòmics com l’intercanvi o el préstec.

http://fad.cat/congres/old/2013/

El referent

 ENZO MARI, AUTOPROGETTAZIONE 2.0

Enzo Mari ja en els anys '70 introdueix el concepte de disseny obert.Compartia el seu codi i promovia que els usuaris s'impliquessin activament en el co-disseny i fabricació dels seus mobles. Mari va ser un pioner amb un missatge i una acció radical. El seu impacte ha estat lent però ferm. I en el camí la cultura digital ha vingut a ajudar a canviar les regles del joc. Avui compartir i crear col·lectivament és més ràpid, innovador i eficient que fer-ho en solitari i defensan-te dels teus "competidors". I en els últims anys s'ha gestat una nova consciència col·lectiva que ens fa entendre quina és la nostra responsabilitat comuna canviar el que no funciona de la nostra societat i fer realitat valors com la cooperació i l'ecologia, construint un procomú fort i inclusiu i sabent viure entre el local i el global.http://blog.mmodulus.com/el-diseno-abierto-un-sueno-que.../

http://makezine.com/2013/04/20/enzo-maris-autoprogettazione/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzyiwlFaag

http://fad.cat/congres/old/2013/?p=768

https://pol-len.cat/llibres/disenar-para-el-mundo-real/

http://www.monografica.org/Proyectos/9749

DISSENY D'EMERGÈNCIA

Social

Disseny per viure. 99 projectes per al món real

Design for all

...Por lo que se refiere a la década de 1970, sus inicios se vieron sacudidos por el muy crítico libro de Victor Papanek Design for the Real World (1971), en el que aseguraba que el diseño se había convertido en «la herramienta más poderosa con la que el hombre da forma a sus utensilios y ambientes (y, por extensión, a la sociedad y a sí mismo).» Como ha señalado Penny Sparke, Design for the Real World fue en esencia una extensa crítica al estado ideológico del diseño en aquellos momentos y una llamada a que los diseñadores prestaran más atención a los problemas reales.Cinco años después de la primera edición de dicho libro, en 1976, el Royal College of Art junto con el ICSID  organizó el congreso «Design for Need», en el que se trataron diversos temas, entre otros, el diseño en los países del Tercer Mundo, las posibilidades de la tecnología, así como un amplio número de asuntos de carácter social ...

aquí:

https://objecteiespai.tumblr.com/search/Victor+Papanek

...También en los años 1970, y con la intención de crear un diseño más inclusivo, Maria Benktzon y Sven–Eric Juhlin, crearon el Ergonomi Design Gruppen, para diseñar objetos funcionales y atractivos alejados de la falta de interés estético que, hasta entonces ...

http://www.monografica.org/02/Art%C3%ADculo/2909

https://www.moma.org/artists/8697

https://www.moma.org/artists/6935?locale=es

http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museudeldisseny/ca/exposicio/disseny-viure-99-projectes-al-mon-real

http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museudeldisseny/ca/activitat/3es-jornades-disseny-viure-diversitat-funcional-protesis-i-ciborgs

https://www.nuvol.com/noticies/dissenyar-per-a-la-condcio-vulnerable/

[fixperts-org]

“Who owns the ideas?” – Paul Micklethwaite

Stage 9 of the ‘Fixperts Project Framework’ is “Presentation: Present the movies, talk about you’re (sic) experience, review the process and solution. Discuss the potential of harvesting the fix for other users, designing a new product or service or creating a report to improve industry.” (Fixperts Education Project Guidelines, page 3)

‘Harvesting the fix’ might mean replicating it with similar users or in similar scenarios:

 “After presenting the fix to the London Ambulance Service, we were commissioned to produce 50 more; one for each cycling paramedic working in London.” (Paramedic cyclist video, closing credits)

Still from Paramedic cyclist of the final prototype.

 This is a logical move when the fix addresses a problem faced by a number of users - in this case how to keep a piece of medical equipment which is used orally clean and protected from the elements when mounted on a bicycle used in all weathers. Presumably each of the 50 paramedics is issued with a standard kit of equipment, and so the problem faced by this FixPartner (and solved by the Fixperts) will be common to his colleagues. The same might apply to the Dairy Crest fix, in which the Fixperts worked with a milkman to address the apparently universal problem of customers leaving notes which are often not seen by the milkman because they are left in ad hoc locations, and milk is often delivered before the sun has risen. In this case the fix addresses a challenge faced by a service provider across a significant scale of service delivery. A communication design solution which works in one case is likely to work in all other cases.

 These examples contrast with fixes which are bespoke one-off responses to individual situations and their very particular needs, for example Whippersnappers (in which the fix was a site-specific reorganisation of available storage space). This type of fix is summed-up by one FixPartner when presented with the first prototype of his fix:

 “It’s designed for me rather than designed for everyone.” (Patrick video, 2.25)

Still from Patrick of the final prototype

 The fix in this case responds to the requirements of a FixPartner with a very particular set of physical challenges. Patrick is unlikely to be typical of a large number of users; therefore the fix developed for him is more limited in its direct repeatability. In this case, what can be ‘harvested from the fix’ is perhaps the process by which the collaboration took place, and the knowledge gained by the Fixperts about working with someone with Patrick’s degree of physical disability. The understanding gained and principles established by the Fixperts in order to deliver a fix of value to Patrick will perhaps be useful when working with FixPartners with similar (if not identical) needs as Patrick.

This consideration of the replicability or transferability of fixes generated by fixpert-fixpartner collaborations raises the issue of ownership. Here is the stated position of the Fixperts project:

 “Who owns the ideas? The ideas, inventions and intellectual property belong to those who create them.” (Fixperts Education Project Guidelines, page 4)

Presumably this is the Fixperts, who, while they collaborate with a FixPartner, are very much designing a solution for, rather than with, them. This is user-centred design, rather than codesign. The needs of the FixPartner are placed at the centre of the design project, but the FixPartner is not an active participant in the design process itself. Patrick is a product design graduate, and therefore has capabilities in design thinking which probably exceed those of most FixPartners. As such he might be considered an exceptional case, in that he might himself conceive of viable design solutions to his needs independently of his Fixperts. Patrick’s disability came after his design training – “I sustained a 'Traumatic Acquired Brain Injury', and a six month coma from a 'road traffic accident' whilst cycling, in October 2006.” (http://patrickgoodacre.blogspot.co.uk/) – and now inhibits his ability to be as active as he would like to be as a designer. His background does however highlight the potential value in codesigning fixes, with the Fixpert acting as a facilitator of a shared design process, more than a conventional designer-client relationship.

The issue of ownership is relevant to the potential wider exploitation of fixes. ‘Harvesting the fix’ might after all also potentially mean seeking to extract commercial gain in return for adding value for a significant number of prospective users, although this is yet to be discussed openly in the Fixperts project. The Creative Commons system of copyright licenses allows the creators of protectable content to retain and/or waive a number of their rights in relation to that content, for the benefit of others. (http://creativecommons.org/) The spirit of Fixperts would seem to fit with this progressive attitude to ownership - perhaps use of CC licenses for fixes is a useful next step for the project? Fixes are embodied and applied – not abstract – ideas; they are therefore potentially (but not necessarily guaranteed) protectable. CC might allow the project to better protect the interests of its collaborators, Fixperts and FixPartners alike? Intellectual property law is intended to ensure that the entrepreneur pays dues to the inventor whose concept she is taking to market as an innovation. Where the inventive step is distributed among multiple actors, as in codesign, acceptable attribution can become difficult. For Fixperts, for now, this issue is straightforward, but it may not always be so.

All videos can be seen at: http://fixperts.org/fixfilms/