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The Radar: September 29, 2016

September 29th, 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.

UI Movement

An interesting compilation of UI design inspiration.

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Kano

Kano is an education kit designed to help kids learn about computers and coding.

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Chrome’s Developer Console

Ten functions you can use in Chrome’s javascript console to make debugging easier. Some of these you can do with Chrome’s developer tools by clicking buttons and such. Others, like laying out a variable in a table, are exclusive to the console.

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React Components

A curated list of React components.

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UI Toolkit

A UI toolkit for react-native that is similar to the popular Bootstrap library.

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GitHub GraphQL API

Github added support for GraphQL, and open sourced some ruby gems they have used in the process.

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R for Data Science

A book about using the programming language R for analyzing data. Not available in print yet, but you can test it out online. It doesn’t seem to go over the basic syntax of R, so you may want to find a quick intro online before starting the book.

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Design for Relevance, then usability

Product teams shouldn’t misuse usability testing to infer relevance. Establish feature relevance first, and optimize for usability later.
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