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The Radar: March 9, 2016

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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