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The Radar: October 28, 2015

October 28th, 2015 - by Michelle Mann - 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.

Which Comes First? Layout vs. Content

Great article on layout vs. content, and which should come first.

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Nobody Cares About Your Hard Work

Too often we emphasize our exhaustion as a measure of our success.

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The Art of Debugging

Some tips and tricks to use while debugging your code.

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Vintage Font Ads

Old advertisements for typefaces. This article shows typeface ads throughout the decades.

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Learn X in Y Minutes

Get a concise lesson of the programming language of your choice.

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Watch Coding Live

Watch people live code products. This site is similar to Twitch, but for programming.

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Halloween Icon Set (Free)

It’s Halloween time, enjoy this free icon set for your festivities.

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A Great UX Reading List

A reading list for anyone interested in learning more about User Research, Usability, Information Architecture, UI Design, Interaction Design, Content Strategy or Experience Strategy.

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The Radar: October 21, 2015

October 21st, 2015 - by Michelle Mann - 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.

Motion UI

A nice little Sass library for creating CSS based transitions and animations.

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Web Development Careers

This diagram maps out career paths available in web development and provides links for what you’ll need to learn for each one.

Map Your Career

The Anti-Spam Marketing Tool

SendGrid’s new Threads tool allows for programmatic sending of marketing-type emails, without pulling lists from your database.

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Supercomputer Helping Crops

A computational biologist using a supercomputer to help combat whitefiles. Now if only they could take care of the pests infesting the fruit trees in Colleen’s backyard!

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Prism Lounge Series

Architect David Adjaye has introduced a faceted furniture range for Knoll.

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Rails 5

A concise summary of what’s new in Rails 5.

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Showing Off Make

Some examples of using an older tool, called “make,” to compile your stylesheets and perform development tasks. Make has been around since 1976 and serves the same purpose that newer tools, like Gulp, do.

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Templates for iOS 9

Quick iOS 9 Mobile Mockup Templates for Sketch or Photoshop.

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The Radar: October 14, 2015

October 14th, 2015 - by Michelle Mann - 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.

Using Responsive Images

A great article outlining techniques which you can use to optimize the use of responsive images.

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Load Testing Tool

Load test your app using SendGrid’s cloud-based load testing tool.

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Interactive Data

Bret Victor gave a talk a while back about allowing ourselves to represent data in a more interactive and meaningful way. Apparatus, originally developed by Toby Schachman, let’s you do just that.

Use Software

Machine Learning for Developers

“Machine learning is explained in many ways, some more accurate than others, however there is a lot of inconsistency in its definition.” This article clarifies these definitions.

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Brackets as Code Editor for Dreamweaver

Adobe will be using the code from Brackets in future versions of Dreamweaver. Brackets is an open source text editor from Adobe that has surpassed Dreamweaver’s features in many ways.

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Chrome is Killing off “Mixed Content” Warnings

Chrome downgrades your site to appear to be http (with the gray page) if you have http links or references on your page. It is better than the little yellow warning triangle which scares away some users.

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Frieze Art Fair Temporary Structure

Take a look inside the temporary structure built by Universal Design Studio to house the Frieze Art Fair. They worked to “balance the overall experience so that the quality of the space matches that of the art work”.

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The Radar: October 07, 2015

October 7th, 2015 - by Michelle Mann - 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.

LEARN SQL

Attention anyone who claims to be non-technical… Level up and learn SQL.
You’ll be glad you did.

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MAXIMIZE YOUR PRODUCT EXPOSURE

Learn 10 things you can do to improve your product exposure on Product Hunt.

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KEEP YOUR POWER CORDS ALIVE

For all of you Apple Junkies out there or anyone else who may have had this problem with less expensive accessories, there is a way to keep your power cords from pinching, splintering, and breaking.

How To Video

WHAT 2000 CALORIES LOOKS LIKE

Snapshot of meals from different restaurants which equal 2000 calories.

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CODE GALAXIES

A visualization of different “code galaxies”. Shows how different software libraries are connected, based on dependencies.

Operate Spaceship

CONTENT EDITOR FOR HTML

ContentTools is a simple content editor for editing html. Go ahead and try out the demo.

Demo

PHPUNIT VW EXTENSION

The Volkswagon extension will make PHPUnit say that your tests are passing when your tests are being run on a remote testing server.

GitHub

IPHONE 6S MOCKUPS

Get a discount on these new iPhone 6s mockups, from InVision + Mockuuups.

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TIMELINES OF FAMOUS STARTUPS

This site shows a chronological timeline for a number of major startups, like Facebook, Airbnb, Google, Instagram, Spotify, and more.

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