September 30th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - Salt Lake City, Utah
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.
Linux in the Browser
Full, root-level access to a Linux box from your mobile phone browser.
Icebergs
React Native
Step outside of your iOS developer comfort zone and you may just find something even better than before—React Native.
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Basic Design Principles
Roman Mars is obsessed with design….and flags. In this humorous talk, Mars reveals the five basic principles of flag design and shows why he believes they can be applied to just about anything.
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Most Expensive Book
How an automatic pricing algorithm on a book about flies got out of hand—$23,698,655.93 to be exact!
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Noir Films
Open Culture has posted the 5 best noir films in the public domain—from Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker.
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Spicy Foods
A huge observational study conducted in China by Harvard researchers suggests that eating spicy foods more often reduces the risk of death.
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C# Inception
This is a brief overview for using the new Rosyln compiler and C# to analyze .NET code. The presentation underscores that this allows developers to analyze their code with code much like you can unit test your code with code.
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Brand Battles
This article chronicles the stories behind five infamous brand battles—how they came to fruition and where they stand today.
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Style Guides
This explains the reasons why style guides are not only helpful, but are efficient and necessary.
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ES6 Array Extensions
A lot of new methods are being added to Javascript for creating and manipulating arrays.
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Picking Passwords
The Ashley Madison hack shows that when users choose predictable passwords, it makes security measures worthless.
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September 23rd, 2015 - by Julie Hale - Salt Lake City, Utah
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.
Analytics & Insights for Stripe
One click and you get hundreds of metrics & insights from your Stripe account that you wish Stripe had in the first place.
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23 Must-Follow Design Feeds
This is an eclectic collection of Twitter, Instagram, and RSS feeds as well as great websites and blogs that focus on multiple aspects of art and design.
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Netflix Introduces Lemur
Netflix has released an open source certificate generation/management tool, called Lemur.
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To Rebrand, or Not?
Before you go rebranding, you should really evaluate if it is necessary and what you are trying to accomplish. Here’s an example of what NOT to do.
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Searchable Speech
Will recording every spoken word help or hurt us?
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Letterspacing Web Type
John D. Jameson shares some solid guidelines for letterspacing web typography to increase readability and aesthetics.
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Porcupine Programmer
A Directed Acyclic Word Graph (or DAWG) is a way of storing a large number of words, such as the entire dictionary, without taking up much hard drive space. It takes advantage of the fact that most words share some sequence of letters with other words.
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iOS9
Check out this summary of what’s new for developers in iOS 9.
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September 16th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - Salt Lake City, Utah
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.
Thimble Relaunch
Mozilla relaunched Thimble, an online code editor for teaching the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a major redesign and a slew of new features.
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Internet Explained via Emoji
Using emojis, Bill Nye explains how everything is and will continue to be connected to the internet and the explains the need to think differently about how all these things work together.
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Largest API Marketplace
Mashape makes it easy to distribute, monetize, manage and consume cloud APIs. They are building a world-class marketplace for cloud APIs, driven by a passionate community of developers from all over the world.
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Date Picker UI
The in-depth article “UI Mechanics of a Date Picker” breaks down the importance of small details in that little UI widget on your website, the date picker.
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Symbols in Javascript
Symbols are used to name and identify objects (like the keys in an object), similar to a string. However, it’s not a string, so it doesn’t have the various methods that a String object has.
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Advanced Routing and Resolves
This brief guide explains the benefits of routing in an Angular application. Proper routing helps separate logic, promote code reuse, and simplifies debugging.
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Daily UI Elements
This site gives you inspiration for 100 days straight on how differently you could design elements on websites. A great inspiration resource with fresh ideas.
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Passwords are Passé
A really ineresting an unique appraoch to two factor, zero password authentication using Waltz + Cleff to make your digital life easier.
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RITE + Krug
This article explains how the RITE+Krug combination of methods results in better usability testing during development for more agile design.
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20 Awesome Slack Integrations
This list of awesome bots and integrations for Slack will help with communication, development, productivity and more.
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Mobile UX Lessons
41% of apps are abandoned after only a single use. Learn what to do early on, to avoid your app from falling victim to this unfortunate statistic.
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September 9th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - Salt Lake City, Utah
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.
Digital Privacy
The UN’s new privacy chief, Joseph Cannataci, raises concerns about broken privacy on the Internet and expresses a desire to build a Geneva Convention for the Internet.
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Object Literals in ES6
Read up on some new Javascript features that will keep your code a little shorter.
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iPhone Evolution
In honor of the new iPhone 6s, this article outlines the evolution of technology and features of the iPhone from 2007 to today.
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Typographic Patterns in Emails
If you’re sending email newsletters, then this study is interesting and provides good style defaults for the most aesthetic and readable emails.
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How Long to Read
How Long to Read is a book search engine that helps you find out how long it will take you to read a particular book and provides reading time data that is tailored to you.
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Work/Life Balance
Are you a “geek” who loves technology? For a programmer, the mad pursuit of solutions seems to be in their DNA. It just may be this inner drive—more so than any cracked whip—that drives technology forward, yet also makes them have a hard time putting their work away and finding balance when they are off the clock.
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User Interface Design Patterns
User Interface Design patterns are recurring solutions that solve common design problems. Design patterns are standard reference points for the experienced user interface designer. This gallery of UI patterns is useful for those who want to see how other companies approach certain issues.
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Touchscreen Display
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a 7-inch touchscreen display for only $60.
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Preventing User Mistakes
Learn the important difference between user slips and user mistakes, as well as how to deal with each one.
Avoiding Unconscious Slips vs Avoiding Conscious Mistakes
September 2nd, 2015 - by Julie Hale - Salt Lake City, Utah
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.
UI Inspiration
Find UI and design inspiration, as well as the code to implement it with this library of posts.
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Bootcamps to Careers
While dev bootcamps are generally a good thing, more needs to be done to prepare these candidates for successful careers.
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Are We in a Bubble?
The tech industry is in another bubble. But this time it’s not a financial bubble. It’s a psychological one.
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Javvy
Learn how to code in java on the go. Javvy is a gamified app for Android and iOs with 150+ bite-sized, interactive tutorials. Getting started with programming has never been so easy and so much fun!
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Beziers
This is an informative tutorial on how to more effectively use the bezier tool in Adobe Illustrator to create better curved lines.
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R.I.P. Flash
Google is making good on its promise to strangle Adobe Flash’s ability to auto-play in Chrome, starting this month.
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OnHub
Google’s new OnHub is an easy to use router that cures bad WiFi.
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Google’s New Look
Google has changed a lot over the past 17 years—from the range of their products to the evolution of their look and feel—and they’re changing things up once again.
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React JS and Flux
This is a tutorial that shows you how to create a simple application using React JS and the Flux design methodology.
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Fast-forwarding the Web Platform
The problem is not that we are moving too fast with the web platform but that we still lack ways of providing developers easy ways to do basic things. We’re focusing on the wrong stuff. And that is what we need to fix. Wise words by Nicolas Bevacqua.
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Empty States
This article explains why we should take more time creating empty states in our applications. They are key to user happiness.
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