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The Radar: December 30, 2015

December 30th, 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.

SpeedRead.io

Really cool speed reading software. I tried it out and was able to increase my reading speed quite a bit. Try it out by reading some classics for free.

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How to Run Your Company Based on Metrics

Using metrics to run a company removes a lot of guesswork.

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Top 10 UX Articles of 2015

Most read UX articles on NN/g’s website for the 2015 year.

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Trump Filter

A Chrome extension that removes any content that might mention Donald Trump from the websites you are viewing.

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Pre-Commit

The pre-commit project is an tool for enhancing your git pre-commit hooks. It basically has a lot of built-in checks so that you don’t have to write them all yourself.

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Swagger UI

There’s an interface called Swagger for showing different API calls available for an application. The link below is an example of a project that uses Swagger. It also allows you to try out sample API calls and see what the response would be, which is not included in this example. Different request types are color-coded. It’s much more readable than the usual list of API calls.

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DocumentCSS

This live style guide tool allows you to include things like transitions and animations in your style guide.

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