March 30th, 2016 - 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.
How Trashing Others Holds You Back
Change your thoughts of how you dislike someone, to how you can learn from them.
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Google’s Latest Mobile Search Algorithm
If you’re site is still not mobile-friendly, you had better revamp it and quick. Google’s algorithm now increases the penalty for not having a mobile-friendly site.
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Grunt Unused
A Grunt task to check for unused files (jpg, png, css, js etc) in project files and output them to the console.
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Sneakpeekit
These have been around a while, but they are nice templates for quick sketching of ideas for web and phone UI.
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React Native Desktop
React Native Desktop is a way to use react native to build desktop apps.
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Amok
Amok makes changes show up in the web browser as you write them. No more reloading, this automatically inserts your changes.
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UX Design: Bottom Navigation
This article highlights the most effective ways to implement bottom navigation for your mobile design.
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March 23rd, 2016 - 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.
More Code Review Tools
Github just launched some awesome code review tools like filtering and isolating certain elements of code.
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Software Has Bugs
All software has bugs. So before you fly off the handle about a bug you’ve found, remember it is completely normal.
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Automatic Brakes As A Standard
Automatic Emergency Braking will be a standard feature in most cars by 2022. Will it keep people from tailgating?
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Falsehoods About Phone Numbers
Phone numbers are more complex than most of us may think. This document dispels some the myths and gives us a better understanding of this fact.
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Best Alternatives to Mandrill
Alternatives to Mandrill. Mandrill is a service that you can, or could, use to send emails to your users. They recently changed the purpose of the platform, disallowing many uses of it. They no longer allow you to send bulk emails using Mandrill — only individual emails.
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How Experts Write Case Studies
This article outlines ways to write engaging case studies which actually convert into clients.
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March 16th, 2016 - 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.
Brixo
Make your next Lego project awesome with Brixo blocks. These chrome-coated blocks act as electric conductors and are compatible with Legos.
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SQL Server for Linux
Microsoft announced they are making SQL Server available for Linux.
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Use Google Analytics Properly
How Codepen uses Google Analytics in a flexible and powerful way in order to improve their app.
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A Guide to React Native
A guide from Infinite Red, a development shop, on the benefits of using React Native.
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Facebook Designed for Emerging Markets
A look at how Facebook has made their application accessible in emerging markets with poor infrastructure.
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StackEdit
A cool in-browser markdown editor.
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Apple Looks to Google’s Cloud Platform
Is Apple moving from AWS to Google’s Cloud Platform? Or are they merely adding it, in order to diversify their iCloud storage?
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March 9th, 2016 - 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.
Introducing Resizer
With this helpful tool you are able to assess your breakpoints in a responsive interface. Just type the website you would like to test and see it in mobile, tablet, and desktop view.
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Principles of UX Design
A new course offers to teach the principles of UX design by emailing you one chapter a week.
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Replace PNGs with SVGs
We fought for support of transparent PNGs back in the day, and now there is an even better option through smaller svgs.
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2016 Presidential Candidates
This site does a nice overview of the current presidential candidates. It covers their background and policies, so that you can easily compare and contrast.
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WebpackBin
A great new code sharing tool that uses webpack. Any npm package can easily be included. Select between six of the most common JavaScript loaders. Watch the intro video to see how it works.
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Move Fast and Fix Things
Github discusses how it goes about making big changes in production without breaking things.
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React.js Fundamentals
An online course about React and related tools, as well as the Flux programming pattern. The author has written other programming courses, which were well-received.
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Slack Voice Calls
After Slack received a large amount of requests for voice calls within the app, they listened to their users and created this feature. Thank you Slack for making our lives easier.
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March 2nd, 2016 - 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.
New Decryption Attack
A new SSL decryption attack is putting millions of websites at risk.
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Software Architecture and Marathons
A programmer compares software architecture to running a marathon.
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Slate
Slate is a tool for generating api documentation. Some of the best features include: Everything is written in Markdown, use multiple programming languages, and hosted in a public Github repository.
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A Designer’s Guide to the Design Industry
Who Does What? This article takes out the vagueness that exists in the design world by providing examples of different design-related jobs in the tech industry.
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Designing an Empathetic User Experience
Empathy is the key to creating a successful user experience that leaves your users happy. This article outlines that a truly empathetic experience begins before there is a product to design.
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Facebook Hit with German Antitrust Investigation
Germany is not the only the first country to point a magnifying glass at Facebook’s privacy terms. They are checking to see if there is an abusive practice under competition law.
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