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The Radar: November 18, 2015

November 18th, 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.

Email Verification

Analyze and verify your email list before you send your campaign in order to improve deliverability.

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CSS Framework to Help Enforce Accessibility

A good argument on why visual buttons should be button elements. Those in need of AT, like screen readers, need the system to read the content correctly. They can only do this if developers are using the correct semantics.

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OAuth Has Ruined Everything

Discussion on OAuth and Persona — Mozilla’s authentication protocol that could have resolved, or will one day resolve (fingers crossed), current OAuth issues.

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Open Source: Billions Upon Billions Of Free

Open Source projects, such as Linux and Apache, amount to billions of lines of code that are worth billions of dollars.

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Rising and Falling Buzzwords

The semantics used in tech field job listings are constantly changing. Here is a list of terms that are rising and falling in popularity.

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Design is Capitalism

Jennifer Daniel talks about the design world and how, instead of patting ourselves on the back, we should be looking at the social sector to see how to find solutions for our country’s real problems.

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The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design

A guide to IDEO’s process of designing with people in mind. Includes design methods to help create a more effective work flow.

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The Radar: November 11, 2015

November 11th, 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.

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OAuth Has Ruined Everything

An article explaining why OAuth has struggled and failed as a standard.

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Cartoon Guide to Flux

This post is a cartoon explanation of flux, a technology developed by Facebook to solve issues that they kept running into, with data loops.

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Avoiding & Exploiting JavaScript’s Warts

Here is a succinct blog post on how to avoid common JavaScript pitfalls.

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Service Worker & Progressive Networking

With Service Workers in Javascript, you can show cached content to the browser immediately and then check if there is new content available from the server. Here’s an example of how you could do that.

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Static Website Generators

This article explains why Static Website Generators are the next big thing.

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Keep Data Safe While You Travel for Work

Each year, spies steal $300B of intellectual property from U.S. companies. Read about some ways to avoid getting hacked.

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The Radar: November 4, 2015

November 5th, 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.

Object-oriented Approach to UX

Strip away interaction, persistent navigation, homepage, and layout, and show a system of three objects: States, Races, and State-Race Results.

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Why IoT Security Is So Critical

As more and more devices, appliances, and vehicles become connected to the Internet, the security implications of that connectivity become more critical.

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The Guggenheim’s First Online Exhibit

The Guggenheim gets a high tech installment displaying a market they created that trades in ‘hot tips’.

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Security Checklist for a Rails App

A preproduction checklist for a Rails app. This checklist covers the top 10 vulnerabilities so that you can better secure your application.

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Learn C

Build your own lisp is a tutorial for learning C. You implement a basic version of the lisp programming language.

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The 3REE Stack

An example application made using three popular utilities that work well together: React, Redux, RethinxDB, and Express JS.

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6 Key Insights on UX Design

Tips for creating the best mobile UX design

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Choosing The Right Patterns

It’s easy for designers to simply default to what’s popular right now. We need to make sure the patterns being used are appropriate to the specific problem we’re trying to solve.

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