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Glimpses of our everyday work.

Behind the scenes, thoughts on technology and trends, projects and people. Most recent first.

  • Innovation & tips

    In black and white: xappido is certified to ISO/IEC 27001

    A certificate alone does not make software secure. What counts is the work behind it: defined processes, clear responsibilities and careful handling of information. Since June 2026 that has been independently audited and confirmed at xappido.

  • Innovation & tips

    Why we do not start software projects with code

    Many software projects start with a concrete idea – an app, say, or a customer portal. But is that always the right solution? Why we deliberately start with a workshop – and why the right questions often matter more than the technology.

  • Blog

    Software development is a marathon – not a sprint

    Our xappido software developer Robin describes what the SwissCity Marathon in Lucerne taught him about projects, decisions and stamina – and why good software is not built in a sprint, but step by step.

  • Technology & trends

    UX is more than a matter of design

    Buttons, colours, layouts: that is what most people think of when they hear user experience. UX designer Fiona explains why the larger part is decided elsewhere — in whether people can really find their way around a product.

  • Team & events

    LEVEL UP – our opening party in Sursee

    An office is only truly opened once guests have stood in it. More than a hundred did, and the evening told ten years of company history at the same time.

  • Innovation & tips

    Campus Sursee Design Sprint

    What does a Design Sprint actually deliver? Campus Sursee tried it with us and knew after four days which next step was worth taking.

  • Team & events

    A look at Future Day 2024 at xappido

    In 2024 too, xappido opened its doors for National Future Day and welcomed seven curious school students – five girls and two boys.

  • Team & events

    A special team outing at Zurich Airport

    Our long-standing partnership with Flughafen Zürich AG took our xappido team away from the screen this time and into the heart of the airport grounds.

  • Team & events

    We are celebrating 10 years of xappido!

    In 2024 we celebrated a very special anniversary: 10 years of xappido. Our three founders Manuel, Sandro and Thomas look back together on an exciting journey.

  • Media & press

    The Surseer Woche on our work permit portal

    In its edition of 11 April 2024, the Surseer Woche devotes an article to our digital application process for work permits in the canton of Zurich.

  • Blog

    My workation in Obergoms

    Our software developer Gabriel is taking his first workation. Loaded with plenty of tech and his complete cross-country skiing kit, Gabriel spends a week in a holiday flat in Valais.

  • Innovation & tips

    From idea to real customer feedback in four days!

    Prepare your digital project with the xappido Design Sprint! In just four days you get clear results and a solid road map before a single line of code is written. Minimise the risks, maximise the prospects of success and get going!

  • Team & events

    Volle Panne! – total blooper

    To close the old xappido year and open the new one, here are our finest funny faces, slips of the tongue and mishaps!

  • Team & events

    National Future Day 2023

    For the third time already, xappido ag took part in National Future Day. We were able to welcome a total of six school students to our office.

  • Team & events

    LET’S HACK!

    Thirty hours of coding straight through, three young talents, a Magic Mirror as the goal — and a CEO defeated by his own need for sleep.

  • Team & events

    Best-of Tollpatsch 2022

    A year of filming, and not every sentence lands first time: the best of our clumsy moments from 2022.

  • Blog

    Robots on the rise in Switzerland

    Over recent months Lea has looked closely at a wide range of robots and asked herself whether robots really are able to enrich our everyday lives.

  • Media & press

    A Swiss passport, online

    The road to a Swiss passport ran through paper files and waiting times; now it runs through a portal built in Oberkirch. The “Surseer Woche” spoke to the project manager about it — here is the article in the original.

  • Media & press

    Finanz und Wirtschaft on our portal at Zurich Airport

    When a business paper writes about digitalisation, it is usually about figures. This time it is about a portal through which passes and keys are managed every day. Here is the page in the original.

  • Team & events

    Oops, the xappido blooper reel!

    The xappido team’s first blooper reel, and a look at why speaking about software is harder than writing about it.

  • Media & press

    Sursee digitalises the airport

    The “Surseer Woche” of 4 November 2021 published a report on our digital customer portal for Zurich Airport and interviewed our CEO Sandro Wymann about it.

  • Media & press

    Our CEO Sandro in “es mönschelet” in the Woche-Pass

    Every week the Woche-Pass portrays a local personality in its column “es mönschelet”. This week our CEO and founder Sandro answered the fifteen questions. Here is the page in the original.

  • Team & events

    A new office in inspiring surroundings

    The first three months of 2020 were all about setting off by tearing down. Within a few weeks, the event room of Kreativfabrik 62 became our new workspace.

  • Technology & trends

    xappido takes off with Zurich Airport

    It was not the cheapest offer that won the contract: for the pass and key management of Switzerland’s largest airport, who stood behind it counted too.

  • Team & events

    A new member of the board of directors

    Growth needs more than contracts; it needs people who think along with you. The board of directors of xappido ag has been strengthened.

  • Technology & trends

    Launching a product through play

    How do you get people interested in the herbal and plant extracts in a soft drink? At the spring fair, with a quiz instead of a list of ingredients.

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Manuel Wymann, Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Manuel Wymann · Managing Partner & Co-Founder