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Fusion Radar: March 18, 2015

March 19th, 2015 - by Objective - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.

UX Project Checklist

This isn’t strictly limited to User Experience tasks, but it’s an interesting list nonetheless which may help you plan your next project with the user in mind.

UX Project Checklist

Public Domain Project

Access thousands of free images, videos, and audio files that are in the public domain.

Public Domain Project

Developer Compensation

Wondering what average compensation looks like for various roles within software and web development? This data completely ignores geography, and therefore may not be relevant to your particular situation.

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Comic Papyrus

Now you can hate both fonts at once.

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Regexp

This Ruby gem allows you to put in a regular expression and get out a list of examples that the regular expression would match. It is a helpful tool for debugging regular expression problems, or for learning regular expression syntax.

Regexp

Treeline

Treeline is a way to build a backend for an app without writing code. Software is definitely eating the world.

Treeline

10 Apple Watch Apps

10 Apple Watch apps to be excited about.

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World Time Buddy

This site has a great interface for converting between time zones. It also tells you if the time zone is currently in daylight savings time or not.

World Time Buddy

Brand Color Swatches

Download Photoshop swatches for well-known brands.

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Fusion Radar: March 4, 2015

March 4th, 2015 - by Danielle - Salt Lake City, Utah

Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Agency Fusion.

HTTP/2

The IETF has finalized its work on HTTP/2 which brings some much-needed performance enhancements to the HTTP protocol.

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Mobile Affects Google Rankings

Google is now ranking your site higher in search results if it is mobile friendly.

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Paperspace

Paperspace is a computer in the cloud. You can use a normal browser to access it.

Paperspace

JavaScript in 2015

Some cool new JavaScript features for 2015, including block-level variables and iterable objects.

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An Exploration of Carousel Usage

This article aims for a better understanding of the current argument against carousels and whether they really deserve the reputation they’ve gained.

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An Exploration of Carousel Usage

This article aims for a better understanding of the current argument against carousels and whether they really deserve the reputation they’ve gained.

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Parrot Bebop Drone

Parrot has a brand new drone on the market, featuring a 1080p video camera that captures motion at 30FPS, and that can take stills at 14MP.

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