October 26th, 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.
Liminal Thinking
A great intro to a new book by Dave Gray on ‘Liminal Thinking’ and creating change. Breaking through your limited beliefs will help you gain insight and view situations differently.
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Your Experience is Probably Worth a lot Less Than You Think
In the software development world, experience may have diminishing value over time. With tech’s ever-accelerating pace of change, general practices have and will continue to become obselete.
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How to Use Elm at Work
A guide to help you start using Elm by gradually introducing it into existing projects at work. This article outlines the strategies that work and common mistakes.
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Corkami
Here is a collection of pictures which help explain conventions such as file formats, cryptography, and more.
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The Experimental Layout Lab of Jen Simmons
Magazine-like website layouts pushing design. This site provides the code for each one. Unfortunately, you may have to switch browsers for certain layouts.
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Audio emojis in Slack
Integrate custom sounds into your Slack channel.
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October 20th, 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.
Capture Screenshots in Google Chrome without using Extensions
Capture screenshots in Chrome without installing an extension.
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Don’t Start Projects From Scratch
A Sketch-based style guide foundation for your next design project.
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Ayu
A new theme for Sublime Text 3 and 2.
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Program Analysis and Understanding
A brief set of slides that explore static program analysis.
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Material UI
Material UI is a set of react components that implement Material Design.
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Tdo
A todo list with a minimalist design and keyboard navigation. You can add your own CSS styles to change the design yourself in Settings.
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October 12th, 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.
Flinto 2.0
Flinto is a comprehensive prototyping tool for Mac with the ability to add animated transitions, behaviors, and gestures. Version 2 was just released.
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You Might Not Need JS
As a designer, it can be demotivating to use JS for simple UX. Now, there are some CSS only versions.
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Refactoring CSS Without Losing Your Mind
A really interesting talk about best practices when refactoring css.
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Hugo
A new golang static site generator.
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Animations in React Native & Ignite App Development
This presentation covers the Animated and LayoutAnimation modules in ReactNative to help you bring your application to life.
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Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
An excellent book on practical functional programming techniques.
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A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype
A paper about how to merge updates to JSON data without it becoming malformed. Here is a discussion about its real-world shortcomings.
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Startups: Here’s How to Brainstorm Better, According to Science
When going into a brainstorming session, make sure that you have a game plan and pay close attention to the data put on the table by team members.
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October 5th, 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.
A Redesign with CSS Shapes
How to code for non-rectangular float shapes in CSS.
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How it Feels to Learn JavaScript in 2016
With so many changes and versions and editions and compilers and transpilers in the JavaScript world, things get a little crazy.
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Know Your Font
Play this simple game to test your knowledge of common fonts.
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Even Stevens: Using Round and Space in Repeated Background Images
Some fun properties to make background images in css more flexible.
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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
A generative approach to text-to-speech conversion. This approach uses deep learning to create speech that sounds more genuine that other methodologies.
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5 Delightful Ways to Onboard New Users
“There’s always that moment during or after development when, inevitably, customer feedback suggests that users can’t figure out how to use your product, or features have grown so deep and complex that people are scared away before giving things a chance.”
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