Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The 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 Objective.
Web Design Trends
Stay ahead of the curve by putting stock in these seven future web design trends.
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Free Dynamic DNS
Sandstorm is an open source project that is trying to make it easier to install other open source web applications. They’ve just launched Sandcats, which automatically gives you a domain like alice.sandcats.io, so you don’t have to buy and set up your own domain name.
Sandcats
Stock Photography
Pexels is the best free stock photography in one place. You can use them in any personal or commercial project for free no attribution required.
Pexels
Emotional Intelligence
EQ, the “emotional intelligence quotient” is an important indicator of how successful people are. These are signs of high emotional intelligence.
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Strategic Marketing Campaigns
Here are fifteen marketing strategies that will definitely spark your creative energy.
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3 Ways Friction Can Improve Your UX
Is a “frictionless” user experience always good? Well… it depends. You need to understand the relationship between friction and incentive for your user base and how it applies to their context.
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Typography Cheatsheet
Quickly reference proper usage of typographical characters like quotation marks, hyphens, accents, and more.
Typewolf
How to Name Things
A good presentation on what conventions to use and what not to use when naming functions and variables in your code.
Slideshare
The 10 Commandments of Web Forms
10 very useful tips to make your web forms more user friendly and functional.
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Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The 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 Objective.
The Good and Evil of Content Strategy
Good read on when and how to use personalized content.
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Speeding Up the Web
Google’s new QUIC protocol aims to combine some of the best features of UDP and TCP with modern security tools.
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3D Holographics…Finally?
Despite all the movies about the future, it is still amazing when something from one of them actually looks like it could become a reality.
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Speaking Hexadecimal
Is it time to create English words to pronounce hexadecimal number combinations? You be the judge.
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The Accessibility Project
Excellent resource detailing how to make web applications accessible for everyone. Also helps dispel common myths that developers believe about building accessible applications.
How-tos and Myths
Makerbook
Need fonts, photos, graphics or music for your project? Here’s a hand-picked directory of the best free resources for creatives.
Makerbook
The Secret of My Success
Graphic Designer, Paula Scher, discusses her worst jobs, her biggest challenge as a designer, and her productivity secret (EMBRACE BOREDOM!).
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Javascript Promises
Here’s an article that demonstrates some common pitfalls when working with Javascript promises. If not used correctly, your code may not run in the order that you’d expect it to. This link is an example from the author demonstrating that.
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Be Mobile-Friendly or…
Google’s new algorithm will greatly hinder search results for websites that aren’t mobile-friendly. Time to go mobile or get buried.
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Input Type Sandbox
A way to test the near-infinite combination of input types, validation patterns and attributes across any device, OS or browser, to see how onscreen keyboards and HTML5 validation behaviors react.
Sandbox
Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The 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 Objective.
Backbone Forms
By default, Backbone lacks data binding between your data domain and your views. This small library helps bridge the gap by providing an easy and declarative way to render forms.
Backbone Forms
Sketch for Designers
Sketch, our new favorite design tool, is popular elsewhere.
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Piano App
This app lets you skip real piano lessons and play classical piano pieces using your keyboard. It’s not about what keys you hit, just the timing of your keystrokes.
Piano App
Electron
Electron is a way to package desktop applications backed by node.js. It is currently used in the atom.io editor and for slack’s client.
Electron
Language and World View
The language you speak can affect how you view the world.
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Brand Evolution
A bit of discussion about how brands can evolve to stay current, yet consistent.
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Freeze Your Keys
To protect from thieves, you may want to start keeping your key fob in your freezer if you own a newer car with keyless entry.
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Tips for a Fast Vagrant Environment
If you’re using Vagrant for your development environments, Rails projects that compile Sass and CoffeeScript on each page refresh can load very slowly. Here are three things you can do to speed it up.
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Lilly
A drone with a camera that follows you.
Lilly
100 Days of Fonts
Do-Hee Kim is showcasing a different Google font pairing every day for 100 days.
100 Days of Fonts