June 24th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - 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.
The Unexpected Benefits of Anxiety
Don’t be so quick to hate anxiety. Learn how appropriate levels of anxiety can actually improve performance, help you make better decisions, and activate your ninja powers.
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Charles Eames
Quotes by the legendary designer Charles Eames and his philosophy on creativity and education.
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Just Wear Headphones
Open office plans have their benefits, but here are some arguments against it.
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What is Code?
This is a great, in-depth article (mini-book) about the ins and outs of code.
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RunC
RunC is an open container standard that is being developed by Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
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WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a spec for more efficient code that the browser can read. Some people are worried that it’ll reduce the transparency of the web, since regular Javascript is pretty human-readable, whereas WebAssembly will not be. However, there are plans to allow the Javascript source code to be sent along with WebAssembly, so site’s source code can still be readable.
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ROT—Redundant, Out-of-Date and Trivial Content
How much is your content costing your company?
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The Joys of Printing
This is a visual reminder that printing is easy and nothing ever goes wrong.
Printing is Easy
Presidential Candidates’ Logos
Enjoy a hilarious but insightful design critique of Presidential Candidates’ logos.
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June 17th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - 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.
The Trend of Subscription Based Services
This article shares 8 great subscription based services that will make your life easier.
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The 7-Step-Paul-Rand Logo-Test
Do you have a strong logo, or a weak one? Take this test and find out. (And it’s Paul Rand, not Rand Paul!)
Logo Test
Airbnb Pricing Recommendation Tool For Renters
Handwriting in a Digital Age
World’s Largest Vector Icon Collection
June 10th, 2015 - by Julie Hale - 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.
Is your website optimized for mobile?
The mobile revolution isn’t over. Be ahead of the curve by not only building a mobile-friendly site, but also understanding consumers’ changing behavior and expectations. In short, you have to infuse your marketing strategy with a “mobile mindset.”
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Mobile-Friendly Test
Use this test to see if your webpage is mobile friendly, as judged by Google. It also provides resources to help you improve your site if it is not.
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The 4 Types of Productivity Styles
Interesting read on productivity styles, how to identify them and tools that can help each type.
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How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?
This is a six question test to see if you can tell the difference between 128kbps, 320kbps, and uncompressed audio.
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Next Version of OS X
Apple announced their next version of OS X, to be called El Capitan. The new OS includes, among other things, pinned tabs in Safari (finally).
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Renewable, Clean, Cheap Energy
These giant kites use the jet stream winds up to 3,300 feet in the air to produce 3 times more power than a wind turbine.
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SaaS Analytics for Stripe
Baremetrics is an analytics program that provides valuable metrics for your stripe account.
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GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
GitTorrent allows you to host git repositories via BitTorrent, so there isn’t a single server that everyone downloads from. The author also proposes using the BitCoin blockchain to keep track of which user claimed a username first, so your git repository can be associated with a username without having a centralized site to keep track of everyone’s logins.
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June 3rd, 2015 - by Julie Hale - 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.
EmailHooks
This is a SAAS based tool for sending dynamic emails triggered by Stripe events.
EmailHooks
Rubocop
How to integrate rubocop into your development workflow to make your code cleaner (or to keep it clean).
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Read and Understand Code Faster
Fira Code is a font that extends Mozilla’s popular Fira Mono font. By making use of ligatures this font combines common character sequences that represent single logical tokens into one character.
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Huggable: A Robot for Pediatric Cancer Wards
Huggable is a stuffed animal robot with phone app placed inside it so it can emotionally connect with young cancer patients. It’s primary objective is to make sure that the children feel comfortable.
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JSBlocks
This is a new Javascript MVC framework with a syntax like Angular, but is faster than both Angular and React. It also gives clear and concise debugging output. JSBlocks looks like it has some nice features and a small learning curve, but with so many similar projects already out there, I’m not sure if developers are willing to pick up yet another one.
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The Internet Revolution: Third Wave
Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, explains the evolution of the internet and how it is about to change again. Get ready, the third wave is here.
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Font Solutions
Fontstand is a Mac app that lets you try fonts for free or rent them for a month.
Fontstand
Need Heat?
Host a cloud server in your home and get free heating. It is called the Nerdalize eRadiator. (Oh, but you’ve got to move to the Netherlands first.)
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