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The Radar: January 27, 2016

January 27th, 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.

TinyLab Prototyping System

A small box with 20 I/O and storage options, compatible with Arduino. TinyLab makes it possible to connect almost anything to anything including wireless connections and rotary input.

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Browser Push Notifications

Roost provides a Javascript plugin to send out notifications to your readers.

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Firefox also released user authorized push notifications.

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The Executive Computer

An article from 1985 extolling the limitations of the laptop computer.  My, how times have changed.

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RIP Tech Products & Services

A summary of the tech services that died in 2015.

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Voxel.css

A lightweight 3D CSS library with very simple implementation.

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Designing GIFs

Some tips to creating awesome animated GIFs.

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The Radar: January 6, 2016

January 6th, 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.

Learn about PostCSS

A nice write up on what PostCSS is and how it can improve your workflow.

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Simple Poll

Simple Poll offers a quick and easy way to poll your coworkers via Slack.

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Create Custom 3D-Printed Insoles

It’s interesting to see useful things being made with 3d printers.  In this case, custom insoles.

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BitBar

Bitbar is an OSX app that puts the output of a script / custom plugin into your menubar.

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ServiceWorker Cookbook

Mozilla’s Service Worker Cookbook, a collection of “recipes” for the new Service Worker feature that modern browsers now have. Service Workers allow sites to save their content offline and be useable without an internet connection.

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3 Ways to Strengthen Your Discovery Phase

Some important tips on the discovery phase of the user experience process.

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