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Strategy, branding, print, & digital design services
Blog posts, company updates, and other insights written to help build a better web.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Managing Environment Variables with Global and dotenv Gems
At Unrelated, our Rails projects use dotenv to load environment variables for development and test Rails servers. dotenv reads a file (by default, the appropriately named .env) that contains a simple list of name=value pairs and loads each as a new…
