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News & Insights


  • Style Tiles Make For Quick Design Exploration

    There are a lot of ways to kick off a new project. You might host a discovery workshop that allows your team and your client or stakeholders a chance to discuss the product’s current problems and what solutions could be…

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    Style Tiles Make For Quick Design Exploration

  • Hosting a Project Kickoff Workshop Remotely

    During the last decade, our team has hosted a significant number of kickoff meetings, or as we call them discovery workshops. Over the course of a few days, our client, their stakeholders, and our team work to understand what problems…

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    Hosting a Project Kickoff Workshop Remotely

  • Trusting the Process

    As a designer or developer, how many of you have been asked at some point to take a “test” for a job or freelance gig? Just as we expected. Every. Single. One. Of. Us. What other industries deal with this?…

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    Trusting the Process

  • Keeping Sketch Symbols and Live Design Systems In Sync Is a Full-Time Job … So Don’t Do It Anymore

    As a front-end designer at a service-oriented development firm, it can be hard to maintain a design-to-code workflow that is both efficient and practical. While there are more tools and plugins than ever at our disposal, there are also more…

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    Keeping Sketch Symbols and Live Design Systems In Sync Is a Full-Time Job … So Don’t Do It Anymore

  • Thoughts After Building Our First Ionic 2 App

    One of the most impressive aspects of developing the Ionic 2 app was just how mature and stable both Ionic 2 and Angular 2 were. It came as a surprise; I had expected to run into far more difficulty during…

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    Thoughts After Building Our First Ionic 2 App

  • Become a Better Client and Provide Valuable Feedback

    Great client-firm collaboration takes time and practice. It’s not always fun and it’s not always easy. However, finding and developing this chemistry will help teams build stronger relationships and trust which will ultimately produce more well-rounded products.

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    Become a Better Client and Provide Valuable Feedback

  • A Few Tips To Help Manage Git Branches

    Managing git branches when branching off multiple feature branches can be a pain. What branches have been merged and can any be deleted? Within my first few months at Unrelated, I came to realize that I needed a better workflow…

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    A Few Tips To Help Manage Git Branches

  • Build Your Product For Day One

    That goal: Build for day one. Don’t focus on what’s to come a year from now or even three months from now. Focus on your first release.

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    Build Your Product For Day One